30 hours per week / £37,505 per annum pro rata / Permanent / working pattern to be discussed at interview
Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health.
YMCA DownsLink Group are recruiting for a Family Systemic Practitioner to work within our innovative Children and Young People's (CYP) service.
Our CYP service provides primary care mental health treatment for young people aged 2-25 experiencing mild-to-moderate mental health difficulties. We offer a range of short-term interventions tailored to people's presenting needs and age. These include cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), low intensity psychological interventions, group treatments, creative therapies and social prescribing.
Formed in 2020, Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service is a new collaboration which is responsible for delivering Primary Care Mental Health Services in Brighton and Hove. Led by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and in partnership with YMCA DownsLink and Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, the service provides a community-based range of evidence-based therapeutic and clinical interventions to support people with mild to moderate mental health needs.
You will be delivering individual assessments and systemic family work for children and young people, working alongside our other therapists and counsellors in the delivery of interventions tailored to the needs of children and young people living in Brighton and Hove. You will support us in forming close working relationships with staff from our partner agencies, as this is essential for providing an effective service. You will also develop and work closely with colleagues in other local services supporting children and young people, including the city's CAMHS service(s) and the Schools Mental Health Service.
Key responsibilities:
- Triaging referrals
- Assessing mental health difficulties
- Delivering systemic interventions according to indicated, evidence based national guidelines
- Liaising with children and young people, their parents, families and carer
- Working with additional supporting professionals to ensure effective and practical support for children and their families/carer
- Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying CYP systemic formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language
ABOUT YOU: We know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
You must be experienced in delivering family therapy with children and young people and be a qualified Systemic Family Practitioner. The ideal candidate will be AFT/UKCP registered and have a qualification in Systemic and/or Family Therapy.
- Required: Postgraduate Diploma Children & Young People's IAPT Therapy - Systemic Family Practice and Intermediate level training in systemic therapy as accredited by AFT
- Desirable: MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy. MSc Systemic Psychotherapy
- You will have proven experience in safeguarding children and young people, responding to, managing, and referring safeguarding issues
- You will also have a sound understanding of child protection and vulnerable adult safeguarding issues, policies, and procedures
