Job summary
Sutton CAMHS are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Systemic Family Psychotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team.

You will provide highly specialist systemic assessment and therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families/carers, working collaboratively with colleagues to develop systemic practice across the service.

The role will include:

• Managing a specialist caseload and coordinating care.
• Providing systemic family therapy and psycho-educational interventions.
• Offering specialist consultation, formulation and advice to CAMHS colleagues.
• Supporting clinical supervision, teaching and training.
• Contributing to service development, audit, research and clinical governance.

Main duties of the job
We are looking for a qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with UKCP via the College of Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy, with at least four years' demonstrable practice and significant experience working as a family therapist.

Experience of supervision, teaching, service development, leadership, research or group work would be desirable.

If you are passionate about working therapeutically with children, young people and families and would like to contribute to the development of systemic practice within Sutton CAMHS, we would love to hear from you.

Join us and be part of a supportive, collaborative and forward-thinking CAMHS team.

About us
Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job responsibilities
To provide highly specialist systemic family psychotherapy services to children, young people and their families / carers across all sectors of care; providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.

To develop systemic practice within the Team and work in partnership with other disciplines

To carry a caseload and coordinate care for those children, young people and families on the caseload; to offer specialist advice and consultation on clients care and systemic formulation and practice to Camhs colleagues.

To support the Consultant Clinical Psychologist lead, Service Manager and Clinical Lead with the work of a particular team or service area.

To work within Trust and professional guidelines, to a clear CAMHS job plan.

To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees appraisals.

Within supervision, team meetings and other fora, to support and promote the use of measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.

To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.

To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.

Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential

• Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy with demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

• Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
• Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
• Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.

Experience
Essential

• Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care.
• Consolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a family therapist over a minimum of 18 months.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
• Experience of conducting research
• Experience of leading workshops/group
• Experience of delivering Supervision

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).