Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

HPFT's Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service (CYPMHS – formerly known as CAMHS) has been at the forefront of national developments in CYPMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT, and Hertfordshire is an i-Thrive accelerator service. The HPFT CYPMH service includes four community based ‘tier 3’ teams, a crisis assessment/treatment team (C-CATT), a DBT service, an Eating Disorder Team, an inpatient unit (Forest House) and a Targeted Team for looked after children. We offer a range of psychological therapies across these teams. We have close links with other agencies including the local ‘tier 2’ CYPM service, school link workers, Mental Health Support Teams, and children's social services.

As a service, we are keen to promote continuing professional development (CPD) and research opportunities. We offer placements to trainees within all psychological therapies and have strong links with local training courses. We value clinical supervision, both peer group and individual. We are an innovative and dynamic service, working as a multi-disciplinary team to address new challenges, and we are looking for an enthusiastic Systemic Psychotherapist to join us in going forward.

As a senior clinician in the team, you would work closely with the Consultant Psychologist and the Quadrant Leadership Team to lead the clinical work within the wider team as well as manage your own core and specialist caseloads, whilst taking an active role in developing systemic psychotherapy provision in the team and the wider service. You would have close links with the professional lead for systemic psychotherapy and would join the systemic psychotherapy professional network within HPFT CAMHS. Locally, you would be working within a multidisciplinary team.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission .

Our Family Of Over 4,500 Members Of Staff Provide Health And Social Care For People With Mental Ill Health, Physical Ill Health And Learning Disabilities Across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex And Norfolk, Delivering These Services Within The Community And Several Inpatient Settings. Everything Is Underpinned By Choice, Independence And Equality, With Our Trust Values Embedded Throughout

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Julian Powis Job title: Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:

Dr Lumi Henshaw - Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist/ Consultant Lead for Psychological Therapies CAMHs South - & .

Julian is lead for psychological therapies in the East team, where the post will be based. Julian can be contacted on or . He is also joint lead for psychology across Hertfordshire's Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS). Lumi is the lead for systemic and family psychotherapy across Hertfordshire's CYPMHS.

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