Providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health illness to receive a truly integrated and holistic approach to their treatment, regardless of complexity or severity, thanks to the knowledge and expertise of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.
Set in the leafy suburb of Edgbaston, close to Birmingham City centre, Priory Hospital Woodbourne is set in beautiful grounds, conveniently located for access to the West Midlands motorway network and with good local public transport links.
Our unique range of services gives our colleagues the opportunity to develop skills and experience of working with a broad range of mental health conditions across four mental health service lines, across the hospital’s seven wards.
Woodbourne hospital provides a diverse range of inpatient services. These include acute and psychiatric intensive care services for adults. A specialist adult Eating Disorder service and a private addictions service. Across seven wards, our multi-disciplinary teams deliver personalised treatment programmes to our patients and have established an excellent reputation for providing the highest standards of care.
Priory Hospital Woodbourne is looking to recruit a Family Therapist to the Eating Disorder inpatient service. This position is for 24 hours a week which is an exciting opportunity to provide a systemic family therapy service to the patients receiving inpatient care on our Specialist Eating Disorder Unit .
The role will involve:
Providing specialist systemic assessment & intervention for the patients and their families.
Participating in assessment, care planning and facilitate psycho-educational and parent support groups.
Offer advice and consultation on the psychological care of patients and their families to colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures
The successful candidate will also:
Attend or contribute to ward rounds, CPAs, MDT assessments, team formulations and care planning.
Offer systemic family therapy to carers and patients using a range of systemic interventions.
Offer systemic consultations across the MDT and contribute to thinking about patients and their families from a systemic psychotherapy perspective.
Run reflective groups to develop systemic thinking across staff groups.
To work closely with relevant other professionals as appropriate.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management of patients.
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.
Experienced in both 1:1 and family/group work
Experienced in working within inpatient mental health services.
Essential:
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.
Previous experience within Eating Disorders would be desirable.
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