Systemic Family Therapist

We are a supportive, experienced and recently expanded team who are delighted to have developed an additional 1-year part time (22.5 to 30 hrs a week) opportunity for a passionate and experienced 8a Family Therapist within our Severe and Enduring Sutton CAMHS Pathway.

The Sutton Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) service provides out-patient and consultation services to children and families experiencing a range of mental health and developmental difficulties.

The service also includes a Single Point of Access Service which manages all referrals for children and adolescents in Sutton where there are concerns about emotional heath/mental health difficulties. The Sutton T3 service and the SPA work in close collaboration to ensure a positive child and young person journey.

Sutton CAMHS Tier 3 is a multidisciplinary team specialising in the provision of thoughtful high-quality assessments and evidence-based treatments for children, young people and their families entering the service with moderate to severe mental health problems and with high risk profiles.

We are looking for a committed Family Therapist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested wider service development initiatives.

This role is open to a qualified Systemic Family Therapist with the following:

- Qualification as Systemic Family Therapist registered with the UKCP not HCPC
- Experience of working with children and young people
- Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
- The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
- The ability to efficiently manage a caseload
- Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding

Applications are invited from clinicians interested in joining this developing service.

**About our locations**:
Sutton, Cheam and Wallington (Jubilee Health Centre)

Our community hub in Sutton, Cheam and Wallington is based at the Jubilee Health Centre in Wallington, close to a vibrant high street with easy walking distance from Wallington station.

Clinical
1. To provide specialist assessments to children who are referred to the Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the child or young person’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological/systemic treatment and/or management of the mental health problems of children and young people who are based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic family therapy l and psycho-educational interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups, within and across teams including community settings employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for children and their families in conjunction with other professional colleagues, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, group or system.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to systemic formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for the children.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children, across all settings and agencies serving this client group.
8. To undertake mental health risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9. To act as mental health care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including the children, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. This includes organising case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni
- and multi-disciplinary care.

Teaching, Training, and Supervision
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