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Senior Family Therapist
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
30 hours per week
Job ref
395-PP078-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Grove
Town
Chadwell Heath
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum plus HCAS (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/05/2024 23:59

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Family Therapist

Band 8a

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Would you like to be part of an innovative, dynamic team and organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate about high quality care as we are.

We are seeking a Band 8a Senior Family Therapist to join our busy and dynamic outpatient EWMHS (CAMHS) team in Redbridge on a permanent (0.8 WTE) contract. We are a growing and supportive psychotherapy team, and we are looking for a Family therapist who is genuine and passionate about young people’s mental health and well-being to join us in the delivery of high quality and effective EWMHS interventions.

This role requires a post-graduate qualified Family Therapist registered with the appropriate professional and regulatory bodies (AFT and UKCP) and have at least two years’ experience in delivering family therapy in a CAMHS (or similar child and adolescent mental health) setting.

This post involves assessing and treating children and young people who present with a moderate to severe mental health difficulties in a community CAMHS setting. The successful candidate will work across the Emotional/ Neurodevelopmental, and behaviour pathways, leading and supervising the family therapy team and other multi-disciplinary team (MDT) members in the management of these cases.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Working with the MDT to provide assessments and interventions for children, young people and their families from Redbridge.
  • Develop high quality specialist family therapy assessment and interventions with the MDT. Deliver family therapy clinics.
  • Provide family therapy advice, training, consultation, and supervision to colleagues, as appropriate.
  • To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
  • To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
  • To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
  • To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT 

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.  As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period 

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
Desirable criteria
  • Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy, and post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession with demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
  • Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing appropriate to a variety of audiences
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
  • Evidence of potential to provide collaborative team leadership

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
  • Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
  • Experience of delivering Supervision
  • Experience of teaching and training
  • Experience of leading workshops/group
  • Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
  • Experience of conducting research

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Leadership Training
  • Further training in the supervision of an additional psychotherapeutic modality
  • Further training in an additional evidence-based psychological therapy.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Laura Addis
Job title
Deputy Director of PP Redbridge & Havering
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07928659055
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