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Priory Hospital Bristol, Heath House Lane, Stapleton, BS16 1EQ
Priory Group Division
Hours: 37.5 hours
Vacancy Type: Permanent - Full Time
Job Advert Location Description
Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy.
Educated to MSc level in Family Therapies
Job Advert Role Description
Priory Hospital Bristol is an elegant 18th century country residence set in beautiful parkland close to the centre of Bristol, less than 5 minutes away from the M32 leading directly onto the M4/M5 motorway. It has 77 beds over seven wards varying from Eating Disorders, Acute Mental Health, Adult Psychiatric Intensive Care, Acquired Brain Injury, Huntington’s and Dementia, along with a growing outpatient therapy service.
Priory Hospital Bristol is looking to recruit a Family Therapist to the Eating Disorder inpatient service and general psychiatry outpatient service onsite. This is a full-time permanent position, which is an exciting opportunity to provide a systemic family therapy service to the patients receiving inpatient care on our Specialist Eating Disorder Unit and outpatient treatment within our Private therapy service.
Job description: Please familiarise yourself with the job description attached.
Job Responsibilities
Clinical
* To provide specialist assessments to adults who are receiving treatment on our Eating Disorder ward and referred for therapy within our outpatient service.
* To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic family therapy and psycho-educational interventions for individual patients, carers, families and groups.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose treatment is managed by psychologically-based care plans.
* The post holder will also offer Outpatient appointments working within our Day Care Therapy Service.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
* To receive regular clinical supervision from a senior family therapist and where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
* To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patients across the Eating Disorder service and Private Outpatient service.
Person Specification
* Experienced in both 1:1 and family/group work.
* Experienced in working within inpatient mental health services and outpatient mental health services.
* Previous experience within Eating Disorders would be desirable.
* Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
* Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.
* Leadership Training.
Benefits
For your hard work and dedication to Priory, we will offer you a wide range of benefits:
* 25 days annual leave (increasing to 27 days after 5 years of service and 30 days after 10 years service).
* Enhanced maternity pay.
* Contributory pension scheme.
* Opportunities to develop and train in a wide variety of care settings.
* Support and training from the beginning of your career.
* Supplemented meals.
* Access to Employee Assistant programme and other wellness programmes.
Please note: Priory Healthcare is a smoke-free environment.
Disclosure
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.
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