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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
About
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London's population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire. As a Foundation Trust we involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run and our future development. If you are interested in becoming a member of our Foundation Trust please visi www.cnwl.nhs.uk it: (source: Central and North West London NHS Foundation NHS Trust website)
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Key details
Location
SiteBrent CAMHSAddressMonks Park Health CentreTownLondonPostcodeHA9 6JEMajor / Minor RegionLondon
Contract type & working pattern
ContractPermanentHoursFull time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
Salary£49,178 - £55,492 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)Salary periodYearlyGrade(NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
Main areaFamily & Systemic Psychotherapist
Job Overview
Are you passionate about improving the lives of children and young people with mental health difficulties or emotional disorders? Brent CAMHS needs you. Following successive innovative and transformative projects driven by strong leadership and organizational culture, Brent CAMHS has secured extra investments and funding to expand its workforce capacity.We are seeking for an enthusiastic and confident CAMHS Practitioner with a demonstrable track record of working within CAMHS, of providing high quality evidence-based interventions and service improvements.This role is suitable for a Systemic Family Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist, Social Worker, Child Psychotherapist, CBT Therapist or Occupational Therapist with the requisite professional registration.
Brent is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse community, and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working within the richness and complexity of multiculturally diverse context. The successful applicant will be joining a comprehensive and dynamic CAMHS service, winner of 2024 CNWL Team of the Year award. We are located at Monks Park Health Centre, Wembley.
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* Provide family assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
* Formulate and implement Care plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
* Be responsible for implementing a range of family therapy. interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of systemic and family therapy. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need.
* Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans .
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management.
Working for our organisation
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care in a community setting or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.
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With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Enhancement Treatment, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
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.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
To provide a specialist family therapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. Providing specialist family therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non-family therapy colleagues and the professional network involved in their support.
The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.
The post holder will provide generic CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing specialist family therapy interventions and contribute to support plans for the care of children and young people with learning disability, young offenders, refugees and asylum seekers and eating disorders. They will also contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations such as ASD, OCD and Eating Disorders and support case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence-based interventions.
The post holder will provide advice and consultation to non-family therapists in the service on family therapy and systemic interventions.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. Were proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff. We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see ourBenefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Applicant requirements
warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Other
Essential criteria
* Ability to sit with clients/patients for extended periods of time, often within pressurised circumstances.
* To have basic information technology skills.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* First related graduate professional qualification i.e. social worker, psychologist, nurse
* Post first qualification practice/clinical experience in a child care setting MSc Systemic Professional Qualification
* UKCP Registration
Experience
Essential criteria
* CAMHS
* Third sector / Social Care experience
* Experience and understanding of the needs of a multicultural population
* Providing consultation
* Liaison with a range of professionals
* Multidisciplinary working
* Research in relation to children and adults mental health problems
* Teaching and training of systemic principles/skills
* Experience of audit
Desirable criteria
* Training in parent management
* Experience of Group Work
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Understanding of systemic theory and practice
* Evidence base in relation to child mental health
* The impact of abuse, trauma and other adverse experiences on children and families
* Legislation and DOH guidelines relevant to children and mental health
* Child protection policies and procedures and understanding
Specific Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
* Flexible approach to therapeutic intervention
* Experience of special needs children
* Experience of working independently in the community
* Previous experience of working independently
* Experience of psychiatric illness
Skills
Essential criteria
* Skills in working with children and families with mental health and social problems
* Ability to apply analytical skills to multilayered complex cases
* Ability to assess, including risk, and to formulate comprehensive assessment and offer a range of effective treatments based on systemic principles and act in accordance with Child Protection and Risk policies
* Ability to provide ongoing treatment in complex, often unstable and frequently changing circumstances
* Ability to liaise with and manage complex professional networks in relation to individuals and families
* Capacity to work independently, but have the skills to recognise the need to consult to professional colleagues from the multidisciplinary team and/or other departments within CNWL or to external agencies
* Ability to withstand high levels of emotionally charged situations
* Ability to manage the risk of verbal and physical aggression
* Developing of services
* Ability to provide services relevant to diverse social, cultural and religious backgrounds
* Ability to work in multidisciplinary team
* Ability to represent organisation to other agencies and to work with them
* Knowledge of relevant research and practice developments within professional discipline of family therapy
* Ability to communicate complexity verbally and in writing with relevant administrative capacity
Desirable criteria
* Parent management training
* CBT skills
Personal Attitudes, Aptitudes
Essential criteria
* Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach which considers the needs of the whole person
CPD
Essential criteria
* The post holder is expected to have had ongoing CPD since qualification
Documents
* Job Description (, 136.2)PDFKB
* Person Specification (, 73.7)PDFKB
* CNWL Staff Networks (, 320.0)PDFKB
* CNWL Values (, 182.9)PDFKB
* CNWL Reward and Wellbeing Handbook 2020 (, 1.1)PDFMB
* CNWL Staff Charter (, 684.7)PDFKB
* CNWL Culture SCARF Behaviour Framework (, 710.2)PDFKB
Further details / informal visits contact
NameMaria MelaJob titleFamily Therapy LeadEmail address [email protected]Telephone number0203 317 5050
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AddressArgo House 180 Kilburn Park RoadLondonNW6 5FATelephone02076852922
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