Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification

education

Essential

• Professional qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline or agreed Association of Family & Systemic Psychotherapy (AFSP) equivalent. An AFSP recognised four year training leading to a qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy. United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registration (Systemic)

Desirable

• Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice Specialist training in supervision that has led to accredited clinical supervisor status

Experience

Essential

• Minimum four years practice in relevant first profession. Assessed experience of working as a qualified systemic family psychotherapist for a minimum of three years, including at least 3 years post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located. Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families when a child as complex needs
• Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at the acute and chronic stage. Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families Experience of risk assessment and risk Experience of using outcome measures. Experience of involving service users.

Desirable

• Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages. Experience of teaching, training &/or supervision. Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts. Experience of developing services.

Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing views about those difficulties, and take a lead in creating contexts that develop systemic rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions. Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Ability to assess and manage risk. Ability to recognise and challenge any form of discrimination.
• Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing views about those difficulties, and take a lead in creating contexts that develop systemic rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions. Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Ability to assess and manage risk. Ability to recognise and challenge any form of discrimination. Ability to identify and employ methods of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by AFSP and UKCP. Ability to be part of the recruitment process and

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CAMHS Holly Oak

Edgware Community Hospital, Burnt Oak Broadway

Edgware

HA8 0AD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)