Systemic Family Therapist

Systemic Family Therapist - The Children and Young People's Intensive Support Hub - Band 7 (Part time - 30 hours per week)

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Children and Young People's Intensive Support Hub (CYP ISH) for a Systemic Family Therapist to join the team on a part-time basis. The CYP ISH was developed in 2021 and was designed as a short-term, bolt-on service to core CAMHS to support young people (aged 12-18) and their families. The aims of the service are to prevent hospital admission and/or to reduce the length of inpatient stays and support transition back to the community. CYP ISH is an 8am-8pm service that runs 7 days/week, so some flexible working may be required.

The team employs an MDT approach to delivering a trauma-informed, therapeutic service and there has been recent investment and development in relation to family-based work, including Non-Violent Resistance (NVR). This is a fantastic opportunity for a Qualified Systemic Family Therapist who is passionate about improving the outcomes for young people and their families. Applicants who are currently undertaking qualifying level training may be considered for a preceptorship opportunity with substantial prior experience., To provide a qualified systemic family therapy service to clients of the Children and young people's intensive support Hub (CYP ISH) across all sectors of care. This post provides a systemic overview of the family approach to the treatment of complex mental health disorders. The post-holder will be responsible delivering a variety of family and systemic interventions. These interventions are highly specialised, reflecting an expectation that the service will continue to develop innovative practices that are based on collaboration between clinicians, service users and carers, and commissioners of the service. The post holder will be responsible for this process understanding and applying evidence-based approaches both in relation to family treatments and in the involvement of service users and carers.

The post-holder will be expected to discuss clients' care to colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

The post holder will also be accountable for their own professional actions and will need to interpret broad occupational policies (i.e. commitment to a family approach to treatment, involving service users and carers at all levels of treatment and service development).

The CYP ISH team operate 7 days a week 8am until 8pm therefore the post holder may be expected to work some evenings and weekends.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.