Systemic Practitioner (Maternity Cover)

Who are we?

Kibble is a specialist provider of services for at risk children and young people across the UK. Many of the young people the charity cares for have experienced significant trauma in their lives and we provide a safe, stable environment that is both nurturing and therapeutic. With a robust support network and wide range of integrated services, we offer young people opportunities and encourage them to believe in themselves, feel a sense of belonging, and realise their own self-worth.

Are you interested in making a real change with families with complex needs?

The Systemic Family service are part of the Specialist Intervention Team who work with children 5-18 years old. We work across the range of facilities, including the safe centre, community services and early years provisions. You will become an integral part of the SIS team, which is responsible for the planning, implementation and evaluation of a range of specialist interventions for young people and their families. The service prides itself on working alongside families who have previously struggled to engage with services.

We are looking to recruit a motivated and passionate systemic practitioner to work with families using intensive therapeutic approaches. The successful candidate will be appointed on a maternity cover on a fixed term basis for up to twelve months.

The post involves providing direct systemic therapy with all of the family, structured work with parents and carers, family focused work with children and young people and family support. You will be required to work with younger children with additional learning needs, neurodevelopmental diagnosis and who may have experienced significant trauma. The role requires a candidate to be able to use flexible, creative, and use playful approaches to engaging children in a therapeutic process. We also work with young people who have complex emotional and behavioural difficulties therefore having an understanding of mental health needs is essential.

Main Duties:

• To implement a range of systemic interventions for individuals, carers, staff, professionals and families using systemic models.
• To work with young people, children, and their families both within a residential setting and where required within the family home.
• To deliver family group work interventions to parents/carers.
• Provide in house training and support to staff in working with families.
• If required will provide external training, knowledge and information about the service to professionals and stakeholders in a variety of settings and forums.
• To develop resources that will promote family participation and inclusion.
• To contribute to service audit and evaluation, and to share best practice within the field.
• To work in collaboration with the therapeutic practitioners and psychology team.
• To provide consultation to professionals and those using the service regarding systemic formulation and care planning.
• To help formulate and then implement plans for the systemic support and therapy for children, young people and / or family members based on an appropriate conceptual framework, and using methods based on evidence of effectiveness and efficacy.
• To evaluate and make decisions about intervention options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
• To provide systemic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to an intervention or care plan of those using the service.
• To ensure children and young people who need to be referred to CAMHS or other specialist services are properly referred and to input to other agencies meetings where appropriate.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans of children and families.
• To receive professional supervision from appropriate supervisors.
• To write reports summarising systemic assessment, formulation or intervention outcomes.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• A Foundation Certificate in Systemic Practice and experience of providing intervention to families.

or

• Educated to degree level or above with extensive experience providing intervention to families and a willingness to undergo systemic training.

or

• A counsellor or psychotherapist registered with a regulatory body with a knowledge of systemic practice and experience of working with families.

Desirable

• An Intermediate Certificate in Systemic Practice.
• Understanding of the impact of trauma and child development approaches.
• DDP qualification.
• Experience of working with families with complex needs.
• Experience of delivering interventions with families and young people, monitoring individual/group interventions for challenged families.
• Training in systemic practice & evidence-based parenting programmes

Job Related Skills and Achievements

Essential

• Car driver with ability and readiness to travel to multiple sites.
• Skills to undertake clinical roles and tasks within the multi-disciplinary and multi- agency contexts in which service users are cared for.
• A high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level to colleagues, professionals and lay people, and a high level of skill and ability to foster effective partnership working.

Desirable

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Personal Attributes

· Enthusiasm for a broad range of systemic and family therapy approaches that promote family resilience.

· A capacity to establish priorities and organise workload effectively and efficiently.

· Ability to operate successfully within a team-based setting as well as being able to work autonomously.

Notes:

1. This job outline reflects the main tasks and responsibilities discharged by the postholder at the present time, however, Kibble reserves the right to alter or amend the content of this job outline to reflect changes to the job or services provided, while maintaining the overall character and level of responsibility for the post.
2. Notwithstanding any information or statement described within this job outline, all duties must be carried out in a way that promotes equality of opportunity, dignity and respect for all individuals and which is consistent with Kibble’s stated policy on equal opportunities.
3. The successful candidate will be subject to PVG Scheme Membership. Having previous convictions will not automatically disbar you from working at Kibble (with the exception of offences against children or other vulnerable groups) and every case is taken on an individual basis.
4. The successful candidate will be required to undertake Safe Crisis Management (SCM) training and will require a level of fitness to be able to carry out SCM. The successful candidate must be able to participate fully in this training and be prepared to put this training into practice. The SCM training will consist of two days theory and two days physical training. The successful candidate must complete this training in full within four weeks of an agreed start date. Should the candidate for any reason fail any aspect of the SCM training (theory, physical or both parts), an additional two weeks will be given to pass.
5. Appointments will be subject to a 12-month probationary period.