Systemic Family Therapist - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
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3 weeks ago

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We are looking for an innovative, motivated and enthusiastic family/systemic psychotherapist with some experience working in adult services to join us in the Brent Integrated Psychology & Psychotherapy Service (BIPPS).

This would be an excellent opportunity for a newly qualified Systemic Family Therapist with a background in another mental health training such as Social Work, Occupational Therapy or Mental Health Nursing.

The post-holder will be located across the three BIPPS specialist psychological therapies pathways: Complex Mental Health (CMH), Complex Emotional Needs (CEN), and Psychosis.

They will also have some input into the Early Intervention in Psychosis service.


This is an exciting opportunity to join a team committed to improving the lives of the population we serve & we are looking to recruit someone who is equally committed to supporting people with their recovery.


This is an exciting new post that will provide the opportunity to provide a high quality, evidence-based systemic psychotherapy service including clinical assessment, therapeutic intervention and consultation.

The post-holder will have experience of working as a family/systemic psychotherapist, with an ability to work autonomously with individuals,
couples and families affected by severe and enduring mental health difficulties.


The post-holder will have experience of working with complex families, have accreditation as a qualified systemic psychotherapist and have experience of providing consultation to other professionals.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who can work autonomously and
who wishes to promote the systemic model within an adult mental health setting.


The psychology pathways are newly-developed areas of service provision and the postholder will have an opportunity to be involved in shaping and developing their ongoing evolution to ensure the service remains flexible and responsive to people's needs.


As a colleague in BIPPS, the post-holder will be attached to a particular MDT whilst under the management and support of an integrated psychological therapies service.

As such they will have contact with colleagues who deliver individual, group and family therapies from a
wide range of interesting theoretical models working across the three pathways.

Our service is committed to investing in the development of excellent clinicians and there are opportunities for career development including post-qualification training in an evidence based model.

Alongside relevant CPD opportunities, clinical and management supervision is
available to support flexible and skilled practice.

Clinical responsibilities

  • To provide specialist assessment and clinical systemic formulation to individuals, couples, families and social networks where the identified client has severe and highly complex mental health needs, including (but not limited to) emotional and behavioural disturbance, parenting difficulties, acute and chronic mental and physical illness,deliberate selfharm, suicide risk, experiences of violence and trauma, and adult and child safeguarding.
  • To select and administer specialist assessments as appropriate through the use of a range of systemic assessment tools. This would include analysis and assessment of multiple levels of contextual meaning, deconstruction of current interactional patterns of behaviour and meaning around mental health issues and complex relationships.
  • To provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions to inform referrers, service users and their families.
  • To select and deliver specialist therapeutic interventions, drawing from a broad spectrum of systemic models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group.
  • To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
  • To act as lead professional where necessary, taking responsibility for the planning and reviewing of care plans for service users.
  • To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with service and colleaguestaking account of communication needs.
  • To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the Borough of Brent.

At all times to work in ways that are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, and to be aware and sensitive to the different contexts that shape different families experiences, beliefs and perceptions.

This will include working with interpreters.

Contributing to the wider service

  • To contribute to the effective working of the team and to a psychologically and systemically informed framework for the service.
  • To provid
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