Band 7 Systemic Family Therapist - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Band 7 CAMHS Systemic Family Therapist

We are currently seeking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Systemic Family Therapist who has a strong interest in working with Children in Care, to join our CAMHS Virtual School Team in Lewisham CAMHS.

The post holder will have the exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-agency network supporting Children in Care, Foster Carers and other professionals by offering direct and indirect support, consultations and training from a trauma-informed, systemic and attachment-based perspective.

Additional specific training such as Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) and/or dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) can be provided.

We work closely with other CAMHS colleagues, Social Workers, Foster Carers, residential placements and education provisions to promote and facilitate fair and sustained access to education.

You will join a busy and well established team consisting of a range of specialities, including Family Therapy, Psychology, specialist teachers and mentors.

Increase the awareness and early identification of mental health difficulties in Children Looked After and young people in education and young people who are finding it difficult to access education.
Work collaboratively with Lewisham Virtual school to bring a CAMHS perspective to improving the emotional wellbeing and readiness to learn of Children Looked After.
Facilitate early direct interventions where there are difficulties with education (e.g. assessment, formulation, brief therapeutic interventions with the young person and/or foster carer/parent/professional network).
Work collaboratively with professional networks, providing them with appropriate support.
To offer CAMHS expertise to the wider professional network including teachers, SENCOs and other professionals.
To contribute to assuring service quality by using a specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of child and adolescent mental health theories, evidencebased assessments and interventions.
To use and maintain high standards of personal professional clinical practice in the intervention modalities required.
To contribute to training, research and audit and interpret complex data to develop and share understanding of child and adolescent distress.
To contribute to the leadership of the service through working closely with senior colleagues to quality assure best practice and the implementation of NICE guidelines.

Our team is located at 78 Lewisham Park London SE13 6QJ, less than 8 minutes from Ladywell train station (zone 3).

However, our services extend to all Lewisham Children in Care including those who are placed out of borough though this support is often remote.

We are currently working both from home and in the office, with some outreach visits.

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM.

It's important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:1) To provide a CAMHS specialist family therapy / systemic service for schools within Lewisham Virtual School
- corporate parent for Lewisham Children Looked After.

2) To provide assessment, evidence-based treatment and consultation from a systemic frame for children with a range of emotional, behavioural and mental health problems that impact on their engagement with school life.

3) To help provide a systemic framework to inform the multidisciplinary care of Children Looked After in Lewisham. To support multi-disciplinary colleagues in providing interventions and support to the young people and their carers.

4) To work together with the Virtual School Team for Children Looked After in Lewisham to plan interventions to meet the psychological needs of Children Looked After. This may be indirect interventions (consultation, training) and/or direct therapeutic support.

5) To offer Family Therapy / systemic expertise to the wider professional network including teachers, SENCOs and other professionals within the school and social care system.

6) To contribute to assuring service quality by using a specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of child and adolescent mental health theories, evidence-based assessments and interventions to manage complex referrals.

7) To use and maintain skilled standards of personal professional clinical practice in the treatment modalities required by the children and young people treated by the Team and be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills of Lewisham Virtual School and others.

8) To contribute to training, research and audit and interpret complex data to develop own and others understanding of child and adol