As the Family and Systemic Therapist, the post holder will be providing highly specialised systemic psychotherapy and systemic practice to service users, their carers and families who have experienced a First Episode of Psychosis (FEP) or an At Risk Mental State (ARMS).
This post sits across dynamic, well resourced and innovative Early Interventions Services focused on developing responsive and effective therapeutic relationships with service users, their families and carers. The post will be focused on the delivery and governance of family interventions capable of enhancing outcomes for psychosis and ARMS clinical populations.
The post presents a wonderful opportunity for clinicians passionate about delivering evidence-based family interventions alongside a service development role which will call for managerial experience and a creative mindset which can integrate training needs and various approaches to family work required to meet the needs of the local clinical population. Opportunities for research, training and personal development will also be available.
The post holder will be expected to provide highly specialist theoretical and practical knowledge to colleagues from a range of disciplines, both within EIS and within external agencies.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. To supervise and support the assessment and treatment provided by Systemic Family Practitioners and clinicians providing family interventions for psychosis across the patch.
2. To work collaboratively with families and ‘experts by experience’ and support co-production methodologies to inform service model.
3. To develop links with training providers who can provide bespoke systemic training, evidence-based family interventions and psychoeducational packages based on best practice and the evidence base for people with FEP and ARMS.
4. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of systemic practice within the service and to provide governance, supervision and service development for evidence-based family interventions for the EIS clinical population.
5. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To develop and implement policy and procedures collaboratively within the area served by the service.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Clinical Duties
1. To hold a caseload of highly complex systemic assessment, treatment and consultation work based upon a highly specialised, conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.
2. To be responsible for the provision of highly specialist systemic psychotherapy with clinical autonomy drawing on a range of systemic models and incorporate specialist theoretical and practical knowledge.
3. To practice in a manner that is inclusive and considerate of the needs of the service users, carers and families engaged with EIS within the highly complex systems in which they live.
4. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist systemic psychotherapy interventions and evidence-based family interventions for psychosis, ARMS and Bipolar Disorder, drawing upon different explanatory models and evidence-based family interventions, to maintain a number of provisional hypotheses in reaching a formulation and a treatment plan.
5. To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
6. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account multiple and highly complex factors which may conflict or contribute to high levels of ambiguity and instability within families and their professional networks.
7. To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed within the systemic team.
8. To deliver care co-ordination as required, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained.
9. To organise and provide family and systemic psychotherapy clinics in line with service and training needs.
10. To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within the systemic psychotherapy clinics, systemic practice within EIS and for clinicians providing evidence-based family interventions.
11. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to all service users, their carers and families.
12. To provide systemic consultation, advice and guidance to colleagues, teams and external agencies.
13. To undertake and oversee risk management as a senior clinician.
14. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users.
15. To maintain current knowledge of the operation of video equipment and promote ethical and effective use in line with Trust Policy.
16. To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate.
17. To work collaboratively with families and contribute to the trust’s and service service-user participation agenda.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
1. To provide highly specialised professional and clinical supervision (including live supervision) to systemic psychotherapists, systemic practitioners and other professionals delivering evidence-based family interventions.
2. To deliver training placements for a range of professional disciplines from different backgrounds.
3. To develop systemic training opportunities within the teams and support the development of bespoke systematic training plan for staff based on best practice and the evidence base.
4. To work collaboratively with partner agencies within the principles of THRIVE.
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