Highly Specialist Systemic Psychotherapist - London, United Kingdom - South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Adult Eating Disorders Service is seeking an experienced Systemic Psychotherapist (registered with UKCP via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy) to join our experienced and friendly teams based at Springfield Hospital.

The postholder will work across 1 or 2 parts of the service (either the inpatient, day service and/or outpatient pathway).

Ideally the postholder will have experience of working within a specialist eating disorders service.

8a to 8b opportunity:

This is an 8b role but if you meet the essential criteria except for completion of the one-year supervisors training, then we can recruit you initially at a Band 8a role.

The Band 8a postholder would need to be eligible for entry into the postgraduate systemic psychotherapy supervisors training (either at the Institute of Family therapy or the Tavistock).

The Trust would pay for your training while you are in post, offer up to 5 study days in the year (but you would also need to do some of the study days in your own time) and support you to complete the one-year course.

Upon successful completion of this systemic therapy supervision training, the postholder can progress to the 8b post provided they meet the rest of the essential criteria outlined in the Band 8b Person Specification.

The postholder would offer highly specialist systemic assessment and psychotherapy to service users and their family system.

They would provide specialist advice and consultation from a systemic perspective to colleagues, external agencies and carers, and be able to work with an appropriate level of professional autonomy within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust's policies and procedures.

In addition, the postholder would deliver evidence-based knowledge and practice and participate in audit, research and service development.

We offer a regular programme of workshops for Family & Friends of our service users and the postholder would join colleagues from other disciplines in delivering these online and in-person workshops and groups.

There is lots of opportunity to develop this program and bring in new ideas (e.g., a sibling workshop).

The provision of systemic psychotherapy trainee placements and supervision of trainees is highly encouraged.

We are looking for someone who can bring compassion and tenacity to the task of helping clients across the different parts of our service.

Good communication is key, both in the direct clinical work and in liaising with other team members involved in the patient's care.

Being organised and good with time management would be also very beneficial in this post

The post is part-time at 2.5 days a week (0.5 wte) but we are also keen to hear expressions of interest from anyone who would like to work different hours

The outpatient service works with a caseload of approximately 260 clients with severe eating disorders referred from the five local boroughs served by the Trust.

People from these areas can also access our day unit, which supports admissions for up to eight people needing intense treatment including supervised meals, occupational therapy and psychological input.

Avalon is an eighteen-bedded National Inpatient Eating Disorder ward, which aims to offer brief admissions for medical stabilization, including therapeutic support alongside this process to facilitate re-integration in local services.

Psychological therapists are well regarded across the service.

There is a lot of day-to-day contact with colleagues and opportunity for joint working with other professionals in the team.

We can offer flexibility of working hours and have monthly in-house CPD meetings.

About our location:

Tooting (Wandsworth)

Our Trust headquarters is located within the impressive grounds of Springfield University Hospital in Tooting, and we also operate in nearly 100 other locations throughout the UK.

This is easily accessible via the Northern Line (Tooting Bec Station) and via private transport. The Trust provides subsidised parking fares for all our substantive staff.

Our main site is located immediately next to Tooting High Street where staff can easily access a range of shops, cafés and restaurants.

Clinical

To provide highly specialist systemic and psychological assessments of patients and their families referred to the Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the client's care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal systemic / psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing