Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Systemic Family Therapist - Core CAMHS and Eating Disorders
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Job Description: Systemic Family Therapist
Are you a compassionate Systemic Family Therapist dedicated to improving the lives of young people with mental health needs?
We are a small, experienced, and supportive CAMHS team based in the community hospital next to the beautiful Savernake Forest.
Our team ethos is uniquely elegant: come to work, do your job, think team, be happy, be kind, eat cake, and go home on time.
About the Role
The Family Therapist role will deliver a high-quality, comprehensive mental health service for children, young people, and their families experiencing mental health and eating disorder challenges with and alongside the multidisciplinary team. You will be competent and confident in generic key working and risk assessment, able to engage a wide variety of people, and innovative with your care plans.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver a high-quality, comprehensive mental health service for children, young people, and their families.
- Work alongside the multidisciplinary team.
- Conduct generic key working and risk assessment.
- Engage a wide variety of people.
- Develop innovative care plans.
Requirements
- Experienced professional who embraces technology.
- Ability to meet the CAMHS core clinical standards.
- Connect with the team and think outside the box.
- Support and engage children, young people, and their families.
Benefits
- Good professional support in our service.
- Regular professional regional meetings.
- Support from the Clinical Lead for Systemic Therapy.
- Opportunity to connect with professional colleagues.
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Key Tasks
- Assessment and treatment of young people with a range of mental health and eating disorder presentations.
- Delivering family-based treatment and family and systemic psychotherapy to young people and families.
- Maintaining a systemic perspective of the young people we see in context and using systemic skills such as systemic formulation to aid the evidence-based treatment we offer.
Role Description
The role of systemic family therapist in accordance with the iThrive model is located predominantly within the ‘Getting More Help’ pathway and offers the opportunity to make second-order change, enhancing the life trajectory of many young people, their family/carers who come to our service. You would work in collaboration with and alongside your team colleagues and other agencies and support networks. This is an opportunity for you to come to our service and develop your role to provide a family therapy clinic, bringing development opportunities for our staff and our professional colleagues working in other agencies.
About Us
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust, we provide physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team.”
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Our values are: “Caring, safe, and excellent.”
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Mark Weeks
- Job Title: Systemic Family Therapy Lead
- Email Address: Mark.Weeks@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 01865 903777
If you would like to know more about the team, please contact:
- Name: Nel Bartlett
- Job Title: Clinical Team Manager
- Email Address: Nel.Bartlett@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 01865 904666
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