Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Family & Systemic Psychotherapist
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Job Overview
The Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service offers specialist services for children and young people who are suffering from eating disorders. The service provides a range of treatments across the existing outpatient service.
We currently have a permanent position for a band 7 Family Therapist to work in the Children and Young People's Eating Disorder Service.
The post holder will work alongside a team of family therapists, psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, and other disciplines.
The job will be predominantly at our site in Harrow-on-the-Hill with at least one day a week at our site in South Kensington and Chelsea.
Main duties of the job
- Provide specialist systemic interventions for child and adolescent eating disorders in the outpatient service, including Family Based Treatment (FBT) and Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (FT-AN).
- Carry regular initial assessments of newly referred patients to the service.
- Deliver and facilitate an existing carer's skills/parent group.
- Provide duty support to external professionals and families looking for advice and support, including triaging of new referrals.
Working for our organisation
There’s a place for you at CNWL
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe, and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic, or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top-quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams, and the Trust. With every new employee, we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and an equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities, and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
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Hear from our staff what it’s like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, please click on the videos below.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- Provide specialist systemic interventions for child and adolescent eating disorders in the outpatient service, including Family Based Treatment (FBT) and Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (FT-AN).
- Carry regular initial assessments of newly referred patients to the service.
- Deliver and facilitate an existing carer's skills/parent group.
- Provide duty support to external professionals and families looking for advice and support, including triaging of new referrals.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy or AFT agreed equivalent UKCP Registered OR in training working towards completing the MSc in Family Therapy (Qualifying level).
Desirable criteria
- Possession of a relevant degree or in the process of obtaining
- Postgraduate training in eating disorders specific therapies (e.g., CBT-E, AFT family-based treatment, IPT
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- CAMHS Experience/Eating Disorder Experience
- Experience and understanding of the needs of a multicultural population
- Providing consultation, liaison with a range of professionals, and multidisciplinary working
- Research in relation to children and adult’s mental health problems
- Skilled in using outcome-focused resources such as ROMS and PREMS with Service Users, and making use of such information in the course of therapy
Desirable criteria
- Training in parent management and Experience of Group Work
- Working with children & YP with an eating disorder
- Experience of audit
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Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in working with children and families with mental health and social problems
- Ability to assess, including risks, and to formulate comprehensive assessments and offer a range of effective treatments based on formal psychological and specialist therapies and act in accordance with Child Protection and Risk Policies.
- Systemic culturally sensitive skills
- Ability to communicate complexity verbally and in writing with relevant administrative capacity.
- Ability to apply analytical skills to multi-layered complex cases
- Ability to liaise with and manage complex professional networks in relation to individuals and families
- Knowledge of relevant research and practice developments within the professional discipline of family therapy
Desirable criteria
- Parent management training
- CBT skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of systemic theory and practice
- Evidence base in relation to child mental health
- The impact of abuse, trauma, and other adverse experiences on children and families
- Legislation and DOH guidelines relevant to children and mental health
- Child development in relation to mental health difficulties
- Child protection policies and procedures and understanding
- Experience of working independently in the community
Personal Attributes, Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Effective communicator
- Flexible
- Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach which considers the needs of the whole person
- Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
CPD
Essential criteria
- The post holder is expected to have had since qualification ongoing CPD
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