Highly Specialist Systemic Psychotherapist

We seek to appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Systemic Psychotherapist (Family Therapist) to join Bromley 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, and the additional training as a systemic supervisor, approved or in the process of being approved by the AFSP.

You will have 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 be support teams and clinicians to embed ways of engaging and working with families.

The role will be based primarily in Beckenham Beacon.

• As a Systemic Psychotherapist, you will assess patients' mental health needs and their families, and offer evidence-based interventions to families with specific needs.
• You will liaise with members of the MDT and other teams, services and agencies as part of the ongoing care plan as and when needed.
• You will offer consultation and training to 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.
  
  

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
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Manuel Navarro Job title: Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist Email address: m.navarro3@nhs.net Telephone number: 07766 368 198