Principal Systemic Psychotherapist

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 NICE guidance To provide highly 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 provide supervision to qualified systemic psychotherapists and trainee systemic psychotherapists at Masters or Doctorate degree level. To propose and implement policy changes and contribute to the development, implementation and audit of services for families with children presenting highly challenging behaviours. To ensure high quality supervision and leadership with particular attention to clinical standards, risk management and governance.

To advise the team on all matters relating to the Family & Systemic psychotherapy discipline and its promotion. To provide a highly specialist systemic assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a child's or adolescent's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence.

To assess complex children, adolescents and their families as part of a risk assessment. To consult to parents/carers (including foster parents) as part of a treatment plan. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children with learning difficulties, and children who are on the 'Child Protection Plan', and parents with mental health difficulties.

Competence is required in undertaking systemic therapy with families through the use of an interpreter where families do not yet have sufficient understanding of the English language. To provide highly specialist evidence based systemic psychotherapy with clinical autonomy drawing on a range of models and wherever possible brief interventions., 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 NICE guidance To provide highly 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 provide supervision to qualified systemic psychotherapists and trainee systemic psychotherapists at Masters or Doctorate degree level.

To propose and implement policy changes and contribute to the development, implementation and audit of services for families with children presenting highly challenging behaviours. To ensure high quality supervision and leadership with particular attention to clinical standards, risk management and governance. To advise the team on all matters relating to the Family & Systemic psychotherapy discipline and its promotion.

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