Highly Specialist Systemic Psychotherapist

Job summary
We seek to appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Systemic Psychotherapist (Family Therapist) to join Bromley Adult Community Mental Health Services across different teams, including the Older Adults Team.

You will have a Masters or Doctorate level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy, with post registration systemic psychotherapist experience, and the additional training as a systemic supervisor, approved or in the process of being approved by the AFSP.

You will have UKCP registration and excellent therapeutic skills, be skilled in assessing and managing risk, and be able to be responsive and flexible in working with people across the age range.

You will be support teams and clinicians to embed ways of engaging and working with families.

The role will be based primarily in Beckenham Beacon.

Main duties of the job
As a Systemic Psychotherapist, you will assess patients' mental health needs and their families, and offer evidence-based interventions to families with specific needs.

You will liaise with members of the MDT and other teams, services and agencies as part of the ongoing care plan as and when needed.

You will offer consultation and training to all the adult community mental health teams and offer supervision to our colleagues in the acute service.

You will also offer live supervision to systemic practitioners and family therapy trainees.

You will contribute to research and service improvement initiatives related to Adult Mental Health and systemic psychotherapy.

About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities
To provide the Bromley Working Age Adult Directorate and the Older People Service with a high quality, evidence based, systemic psychotherapy service to adult community patients, families, carers and professional networks.

To provide clinical supervision to the Family Consultation Service in the Borough.

To provide specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families of patients.

To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding assessments, diagnoses and treatment to teams, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines.

To provide specialist consultation to other professionals looking to increase their expertise in systemic psychotherapy.

To collaborate in the evaluation of the service and contribute to its development and implementation.

Qualifications
Essential

• Masters Qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy
• Current UKCP Registration
• Willingness to train in Systemic Supervision

Experience
Essential

• Working with families in a relevant mental health or social welfare setting
• Working with wide variety of client groups and degrees of severity
• Care coordination experience and MDT relationships
• Working with psychosis or personality disorder diagnoses

Skills / Ability
Essential

• Using wide range of systemic theories / interventions / client focus
• Working with cultural, racial diverse communities
• Extensive experience of live supervision of FT clinics

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.