Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Systemic Family Psychotherapist to join our innovative Systemic Family Therapy Service in the Forensic Directorate. The post holder will join a team of Systemic Family Psychotherapists who are part of the Psychological services and work across the Medium and Low Secure units and Forensic Outreach teams, ELCFS (The East London Community Forensic Service) and FindNEL (Forensic Intellectual and Neuro-developmental Disabilities Service, North East London).

The Forensic Service has eleven medium secure inpatient wards and five low secure inpatient wards.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering specialist systemic interventions to service users referred to the Family Therapy Service. This will involve providing specialist assessment and psychotherapy to service users, their families, and to other non-professional carers. The post involves offering inreach services to service users approaching discharge, working with inpatient wards, new community teams, service users and their families.

To assist the whole system to manage the transition into the community.

This is a split post and the successful candidate will be working across in-patient services and the community outreach team, ELCFS (The East London Community Forensic Service). ELCFS is multidisciplinary service, for service users in the process of and following discharge from the Forensic inpatient service.

• Provision of specialist systemic & family psychotherapy services to service users and their families and /or carers within inpatient setting and in the community.
• To offer inreach services to service users approaching discharge, working with inpatient wards and community teams.
• Facilitating systemic case discussions, co-leading formulation meetings, and actively participating in Risk meetings and seclusion reviews.
• Providing systemic consultation for service user management, offering supervision, training, and guidance on psychological care.
• Provision of Supervision and Management to Carer Peer Support Workers in the Community Forensic Service
• To contribute to and participate in the teaching and training of staff members of the MDT in the community and inpatient settings on the principles of systemic psychotherapy. This is through methods such as offering live supervision in the family therapy clinic, joint work modelling systemic psychotherapy and teaching and training across the forensic directorate and to partners where appropriate (e.g. accommodation providers).
• To contribute to service wide innovations, representing systemic family therapy (E.g. Trauma Informed care service, Inequality and Diversity Forum, Carer's forum, Recovery College for Carers).
• To contribute and meet ELFT's Carer's Strategy, offering staff training, systemic consultation and supervision across the inpatients and community services, to be aware of carers and engage with carers effectively

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

• An AFT recognised Postgraduate qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy.
• Post-graduate qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline and demonstrable practice (or established equivalence according to Association of Family Therapy (AFT) criteria
• Registration as a systemic psychotherapist with United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) or equivalent body
• Provide Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as required by UKCP/AFT guidelines leading to continuing registration
• Postgraduate training in supervision of systemic and family psychotherapy

• Substantial experience practice in relevant first profession. Experience of working with a Multidisciplinary Team
• Experience in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems where there may be high expressed emotion, verbal abuse and threats of violence.
• Experience of conducting risk assessments, preparing risks management plans and initiating appropriate action where indicated.
• Experience of systemic consultation and supervision.
• Experience of contributing or leading systemic knowledge and practice to service wide innovations
• Experience of working in an Adult mental health setting in first profession or as a systemic practitioner.
• Experience of working in a forensic setting.
• Experience of working with Children, Adolescents and families
• Experience of the application of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of working of working in the NHS.

• Skills in the use of methods of Systemic Psychotherapy /…