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Camhs Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

1 month ago


Aylesbury, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Outreach Team for Children and Adolescents (OSCA) for a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist.

You will be part of our Buckinghamshire Mental Health Service. The service is designed to provide young people with expert help from a single point of access, and is part of the wider multi-disciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in association with Barnardos.

The OSCA team aims to support and engage children, young people and families with complex needs by means of individualised home and community treatment packages.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that offers a whole systems approach to the short and long term management of mental illness that works across the whole CAMH service with the OSCA team picking up the highest levels of need. Service aims include:

- Reducing children and young people’s vulnerability to mental health crisis
- Maximising children and young people’s resilience
- Enabling children and young people with high levels of mental health need to be supported in their own homes or placements
- Offering choice to children, young people and their families and carers
- Avoiding inpatient admissions
- Reducing inpatient days
- Offering advice, support and supervision to systems supporting young people, such as addiction, adoption, Children’s Care and youth offending services.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, personable, and resourceful individual who is committed to supporting developing services as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will need excellent communication and organisational skills, and a keenness to be part of a busy and vibrant pathway.

This is an exciting post and would suit someone who is keen to develop their skills in the Outreach Pathway. This is a full-time position and we would be looking for the applicant to work flexibly from Monday
- Friday

We embody the importance of staff wellbeing in our practice, and this is why we are interested to get to know you as a person and hear what you would like from your job.

You will be supported by the generosity of excellent team knowledge and experience on both a formal and informal basis. Clinical and managerial supervision are augmented with profession specific supervision as required with systemic and psychodynamic opportunities. We also benefit from regular team safeguarding supervision.

Our service is investing heavily in training, preceptorships to develop staff skills and career opportunities. So not only will you have your mandatory training, but there will also be opportunities of CPD training as it becomes available We have a thorough induction process, and you will be paired with other new starters as you begin to find your feet in your role.

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Staff accommodation
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- To provide a high quality specialist family therapy service to clients with complex mental health problems including severe, enduring and multiple disorders, and challenging behaviour.
- To offer advice, consultancy and supervision, and support the work of colleagues providing care and treatment, according to expertise. To provide training to a range of qualified and unqualified staff across mental health areas, as agreed.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, and contribute to research and training within the areas served by the teams and service. To be involved in service developments, as appropriate.
- Contribute to the development of processes and systems within the service to accommodate emergency and crisis situations, using flexible approaches that adapt to individual needs.
- The post holder will have Clinical Care Coordinator responsibility for an agreed case load of patients, undertaking CPA, including crisis and risk management.
- Responsible for implementing and co-coordinating a range of evidence based interventions for young people and their families/carers, which will support the young person’s recovery.
- To work closely with developing networks with a range of agencies including the Children, Young People and Families Directorate, police, Addiction Services, Adoption Services, YOS and voluntary sector providers as well as other pathways including Learning Disability Services, and other specialist services within Oxford Health Foundation Trust.
- Contribute to multi agency care packages, assessing high risk young people and families who are traditionally difficult to access and manage.
- Demonstrates clear, effective, up to date and accurate record keeping.
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