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.

The successful applicant will join a well-established & committed team with excellent opportunities for supervision, CPD, leadership development & involvement in service innovation.

Main duties of the job:

• 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Benefits:

• Excellent opportunities for supervision, CPD, leadership development & involvement in service innovation.

Person Specification:

• Registered with the UKCP as Systemic Psychotherapist and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the UKCP.
• Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in CAMHS.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of family and systemic psychotherapy relevant to CYP who present in inpatient CAMHS.
• Ability to work with a number of clients and systems together, managing the highly complex emotional relationships within and between the component parts of the systems in ways, which maximise the potential for therapeutic outcomes.