CAMHS Highly Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced & enthusiastic Family & Systemic Psychotherapist to join the Psychology & Psychotherapy team within CAMHS Inpatient Services at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust for a period of 18 months to cover a Secondment.

This post offers the opportunity to provide highly specialist systemic assessment, formulation & intervention for young people with severe & complex mental health difficulties & their families. The post-holder will play a key role in supporting family-inclusive practice, delivering consultation & supervision, leading on parent & carer interventions, & embedding systemic thinking across multidisciplinary teams., To provide a highly specialist systemic psychotherapy service to our inpatient CAMHS units, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.

To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate. To contribute to service evaluation, audit and research.

To work as an autonomous professional within AFT and UKCP guidelines and guided by principles and policies or procedures, taking full responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.

We are looking for a UKCP-registered Family & Systemic Psychotherapist with post-qualification experience of working with children, young people & families with complex mental health needs. Experience of consultation, supervision, teaching & service development is essential. Experience of inpatient CAMHS & additional training in Non-Violent Resistance would be particularly advantageous.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.

SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. SLaM delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.