Highly Specialist Systemic PsychotherapistNHS

Job summary

Weseekto appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Systemic Psychotherapist (Family Therapist)to join Bexley Adult Community Mental Health Services across different teams, including the Older Adults Team.

You will have a Masters or Doctorate level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy, with post registration systemic psychotherapist experience, as well as experience supervising family therapy clinics and a willingness to train in systemic supervision.

You will have a UKCP registration and excellent therapeutic skills, be skilled in assessing and managing risk, and be able to be responsive and flexible in working with people across the age range.

You will besupportteams and clinicians to embed ways of engaging and working with families.

The role covers the Erith Centre and the Bexleyheath Centre.

Main duties of the job

As a Systemic Psychotherapist, you will assess patients' mental health needs and theirfamilies, andoffer evidence-based interventions to families with specific needs.

You will liaise with members of the MDT and other teams,servicesand agencies as part of the ongoing care plan as and when needed.

You will offer consultationand trainingto all the adult community mental health teams and offer supervision to our colleagues in the acute service.

You will also offer live supervision to systemic practitioners and family therapy trainees.

You will contribute to research and service improvement initiatives related to Adult Mental Health and systemic psychotherapy.

Job description

To provide the Bexley Working Age Adult Directorate and the Older People Service with a high quality, evidence based, systemic psychotherapy service to adult communitypatients,families,carersand professional networks.

To provide clinical supervision to the Family Consultation Service in the Borough.

To provide specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families of patients.

To provide specialist advice and consultationregardingassessments, diagnoses and treatment to teams, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines.

To provide specialist consultation to other professionals looking to increase theirexpertisein systemic psychotherapy.

To collaborate in the evaluation of the service and contribute to its development and implementation.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in the community and in 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,nursingand therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, localcouncilsand 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,schoolsand people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London weoperatewithin the Boroughs of Bexley,Bromleyand Greenwich and in Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as theBractonCentre, 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,Kentand 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'reKind
• We'reFair
• We Listen
• We Care