Join to apply for the Systemic Practitioner role at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
5 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants
Join to apply for the Systemic Practitioner role at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.
Job Overview
The post holder will provide systemic input to the Adult Eating Disorders Service, which is made up of an inpatient ward, day programme, intensive community pathway and outpatient services. The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team which consists of Psychiatrists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Dieticians, Systemic Therapists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Cognitive Analytic Therapists. The post holder, together with the systemic therapists, will support the teams across the adult service to think systemically in case formulation and treatment plans, alongside holding a caseload of families.
Job Overview
The post holder will provide systemic input to the Adult Eating Disorders Service, which is made up of an inpatient ward, day programme, intensive community pathway and outpatient services. The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team which consists of Psychiatrists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Dieticians, Systemic Therapists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Cognitive Analytic Therapists. The post holder, together with the systemic therapists, will support the teams across the adult service to think systemically in case formulation and treatment plans, alongside holding a caseload of families.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service is an all age ED Service with a vibrant and skilled multidisciplinary team working across a a variety of evidence based treatment pathways targeted to the specific needs of different groups of patients.
You will have the opportunity to work with committed, innovative and compassionate colleagues, delivering high quality care and treatment at an exciting time of significant investment and expansion of services.
Hear from our staff what it’s like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, pleaseclick on below videos:
Video 1 - Click HERE
Video 2- Click HERE
Working for our organisation
The service is located in Kensington (London) and provides a range of eating disorder treatments including outpatient therapy, day patient services and inpatient care.
There are places for 14 inpatients and 12 day patients at any one time, as well as an extensive outpatient department. The service has links to the Institute of Psychiatry (King’s College London), Imperial College Medical School and Royal Holloway (University of London), and facilitates evidence-based therapies and clinical judgement. Our specialist staff include psychiatrists, nurses, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, occupational therapists, and other appropriate clinicians.
For individuals aged 17 and below, we offer specialist eating disorder treatment via our newly established Child and Young People’s Service.
Eating Disorders is a specialism within children’s mental health, therefore finding candidates with rich experience is really important.
The team consists of nursing, psychology, assistant psychologists, systemic psychotherapists, a dietician, paediatrician and psychiatry. We are expanding! Watch the short videos of what our staff say about working at the service.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
* To provide comprehensive and holistic assessments of clients, their families and/or carers that are referred to the Adult Service that synthesises information from a variety of sources.
* To hold a caseload that covers clients from different parts of the Adult Service.
* To be responsible for implementing, developing and evaluating systemic interventions for individuals and their families and/or carers. This includes signposting families and/or carers to community resources as well as supporting the team to develop a family-focused practice.
* To provide and help facilitate evidence based therapeutic groups for clients and their families and/or carers, both separately and conjointly. These include skills workshops and support groups for families, partners and those in the network surrounding the client, as well as community meetings on the inpatient ward and day programme.
* To help teams within the service to formulate and implement care plans for the treatment and management of the client based on using a systemic framework. This includes providing input in team meetings and ward rounds.
* To contribute directly and indirectly to a systemic framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and their families and/or carers, and advice other professions in this area where appropriate
* To communicate assessment, formulation and treatment plans to individual clients and their families and/or carers in a collaborative and sensitive manner
* To monitor the progress of clients and be able to review the need to change the care plan where necessary
* To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up all the boroughs in CNWL. At all times to work in ways that are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, and to be aware and sensitive to the different contexts that shape different families experiences, beliefs and perceptions. This will include working with interpreters.
* Education and Development
* To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior family therapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
* To complete and stay up to date with the CNWL mandatory training programme annually and within the required timescales.
* To attend Staff Group with other colleagues in the service
* To attend the Family Therapy Forum for peer supervision, case discussion and opportunity for overall systemic learning and development
Person specification
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Postgraduate qualification in family psychotherapy
* State Registered Occupational Therapy, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Art Therapist, Doctoral Level training in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the BPS, CBT therapist
Desirable criteria
* Qualifying training in Family & Systemic psychotherapy
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of working therapeutically with families
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary context involving such agencies as social services, education, health and the voluntary sector
* Clinical work with adults, children and adolescents with a range of behavioural, emotional and family difficulties
* Experience of the use of a range of therapeutic approaches
Desirable criteria
* Experience of facilitating therapeutic group work
* Work in eating disorders
* Work in school setting.
* Liaison and consultation work.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
* Knowledge of child development and assessment methods and procedures.
* Knowledge of systemic and other approaches to therapy
* The ability to elicit highly sensitive information, sometimes working with interpreters or advocates.
* The ability to offer reassurance and empathy to clients who may be in a state of distress.
* The ability to communicate sensitive information to a range of clinical cases
RESEARCH/ AUDIT
Essential criteria
* Ability to contribute to QI projects
Desirable criteria
* Audit and evaluation of clinical work
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Health Care Provider
* Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust by 2x
Get notified about new Practitioner jobs in London, England, United Kingdom.
London, England, United Kingdom 5 days ago
Croydon, England, United Kingdom 1 day ago
London, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
London, England, United Kingdom 8 months ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
Clinical Trial Practitioner/Research Nurse
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago
Gravesend, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
London, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago
London, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago
Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Chertsey, England, United Kingdom 1 day ago
London, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 7 hours ago
Dartford, England, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 7 hours ago
Family Practitioner (Grenfell Education Hub)
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago
Senior Advanced Practitioner or Trainee (Annex 21) Emergency Department
Greater London, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
Isleworth, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago
Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Urgent Care
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago
Trial Manager / Clinical Research Practitioner II
London, England, United Kingdom 1 day ago
Surrey, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago
London, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago
London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago
We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.
#J-18808-Ljbffr