Family Therapist

East London NHS Foundation Trust ,
London, Greater London
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Specialist Services Directorate Newham CAMHS/Newham Childrens Services Family & Systemic Psychotherapist We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced and motivated family and systemic psychotherapists with a passion for working with young people and their families to join our team of embedded clinicians within Newham Childrens Services. Children's social care at Newham is on a journey of transformation that will put people at the heart of everything we do and create opportunities for everyone. Newhams improvement journey is well underway and they are looking for exceptional talent to contribute and make a real difference to the lives of our children and young people. The Newham together Model is a strengths-focused, relational approach to childrens social work informed by systemic principles. You will be working as an embedded clinician within the Assessment and Treatment teams of Newham Childrens Services, whilst maintaining strong links with Newham CAMHS. You will be based at Childrens Services for the majority of the week, ensuring a visible CAMHS presence within the team. You will also have a regular, weekly presence (a minimum of one session a week) in the Core CAMHS service where you will access supervision and Line Management and participate in the wider CAMHS staff business meetings and CPD programme. Newham CAMHS is a multi-disciplinary team with a Care Pathway model of service delivery. The team consists of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, specialist mental health nurses, psychotherapists, family therapists and administrative staff who are committed to developing innovative and effective ways of working. This is a busy, interesting, and varied job working with children, families and the wider network. Your remit will be to provide first class input to the Assessment and Treatment teams within Newham Childrens Services. Your role will involve supporting social workers in developing their skills and confidence in working systemically to improve the emotional and mental well being of young people and their families. You will ensure a highly visible presence within the Assessment and Treatment Teams attending team meetings, providing consultations and training and engage in joint-working with social workers and families. In addition, you will provide a high quality evidence-based mental health and systemic psychotherapy service to the young people and their families who are accessing support from this team. This will involve providing clinical assessment including risk assessment and evidence-based therapeutic interventions. Direct clinical work can include individual work, parent and family work, group work and other evidence based interventions. You will call upon a broad range of skills and experience to work alongside social workers, other professionals and with a wide array of children, young people and their families with mental health difficulties. We will provide an interesting and supportive work environment, with good training and supervision provided through the CAMHS LBN Childrens Services Pathway within Newham CAMHS. The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of this multicultural context. The Child and Adolescent Mental health Service is part of the Specialist Services Directorate in the East London NHS Foundation Trust, rated an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission. There are good links with Education, Childrens Social Care and voluntary sector organisations locally. For further details / informal visits contact: Petra Schmidt (Operational Team Lead for the embedded CAMHS offer on 075 8455 5832; petra.schmidt@nhs.net) Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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