Systemic Family Therapist - London, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The full time Systemic Psychotherapist will join a team which provides a well-established, highly specialist tier 3.5 service for young people in Greenwich.

You will work with adolescents up to 18 years and their families/carers, with significant and acute mental health difficulties who are at risk of requiring Tier 4 inpatient care.

The service offers assertive and intensive multi-disciplinary interventions and as a community alternative to inpatient care. The team uses a mentalization based approach (AMBIT and MBT-A).

To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based systemic psychotherapy service to children, their families, carers and professional networks, in keeping with CYP-IAPT principles.

To provide specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS.

To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.

To contribute to the development, implementation and audit of services for families with children presenting to the Service.

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

To record information on RiO, ensuring effective documentation of patient care is consistent with Trust standards.

To implement and contribute to policy and service development as appropriate.

To participate in the recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal and development of staff, and to conduct formal and informal supervision of trainee nurses.

To ensure that work is in keeping with both the Service and Trust policies and protocols.

To collect and process relevant statistical data as required by the service.

To take responsibility as agreed with the line manager and the service manager for the training and personal development of junior nursing staff.

To be clinically accountable to CAMHS consultant nurse through line manager

To represent CAMHS and nursing on Directorate and Trust committees as required and to be able to effectively communicate information relevant to CAMHS