Clinical Practitioner

An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a 0.8 (4 days) enthusiastic and energetic Systemic Family Therapist to join Barnet’s Integrated Clinical Services (BICS), a CYP MH Service for CYP and families presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties in the community and within social care. We are a strong, supportive, friendly multidisciplinary department and welcome for a systemic therapist to join us.

Barnet is one of the most diverse boroughs in London which provides opportunities and challenges that are rewarding, both professionally and personally. We are focussed on making Barnet an even better place to live for all families, we call this ambition “Family Friendly Barnet”. At the heart of this vision is our aim of helping families, children and young people to become resilient so they can thrive and achieve.

BICS has four teams within their service and you will join the clinical social care team. Here, you will be embedded within the REACH programme**_ _**_‘Resilient, Engaged, Achieving Children Hub’_. The REACH Programme brings together a multi-professional and multi-disciplinary team with expertise in safeguarding, mental health, parenting, education and learning, health and communication to jointly assess, plan and intervene with young people presenting with high risk/high vulnerability criterion including; gang-involved, group offending, child sexual exploitation, frequent missing episodes, school exclusion, serious youth violence, low educational attainment/engagement, mental health needs and being a victim of crime.

This role provides an opportunity in the BICS REACH interface for a new systemic therapist to support REACH by providing family therapy with the more complex families where the young person may also be presenting with moderate mental health difficulties. There are opportunities for providing systemic consultations to social workers with REACH to enable to them carry out less complex systemic work and to provide reflective group space with the team to build on holding the team to hold the families.

We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with leadership from the Clinical Lead, line management and supervision from the Clinical Manager and/or Senior Clinical Team Supervisor and peer support from the other clinical practitioners in the clinical social care team.

We offer excellent specialist CPD and training opportunities such as specialist clinical therapeutic approaches. The department has established strong working relationships with colleagues in Children’s Social Care. In addition, you will have ample opportunities to work with partner agencies such as Barnet’s Tier 3 NHS Specialist CAMHS, other community and voluntary services. We also have links with the London Clinical Psychology and Systemic Training Schemes.

If shortlisted you will be required to bring photographic ID to your interview to prove your identity.

Barnet is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Barnet operates stringent safer recruitment procedures.

Please note that the interviews for this post will take place on Tuesday June 16th 2020.