Highly Specialist Systemic Psychotherapist - Shooters Hill, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Shooters Hill, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic psychotherapeutic interventions for children, adolescents and their families, including couples and groups, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses in reaching a formulation and treatment plan.

Interventions may include family therapy, individual work, chairing professionals and network meetings, liaising with other agencies, observations of patients in different settings, and the use of a range of systemic models.

To provide highly specialist consultation, supervision advice and guidance to other professionals working with families both within the service and in partner agencies.

This will include liaison and working with professional networks involved with highly complex, emotive and often conflictual issues such as those involving child protection, deliberate self harm, violence, trauma, suicide risk, criminal offending behaviour, sexualised behaviour, and mental health problems of parents.

To work in accordance with CAMHS and team objectives by adhering to Trust and Directorate policies, including risk assessment in all work, ensuring care plans are in place, recording up to date, attending and contributing a systemic view in case discussion and team meetings.

To take part in the systemic psychotherapy training clinic of the locality team, providing systemic live supervision in the team as agreed with the Head of Systemic Psychotherapy and the Principal Family Therapist in the Borough Service.

To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the development of systemic professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit including CYP-IAPT principles.

To advise both service and professional management on all aspects of the service where systemic and/or organisational matters need addressing.

To manage the workloads of supervisees, within the framework of team policies and procedures and oversee clinical standards. To communicate complex clinical information in a skilled and sensitive manner information including assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients and to monitor progress during the course of uni
- and multi-disciplinary treatment.