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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family Therapist to join our multi-disciplinary team working in a new service within Warrington.
Warrington Council, in partnership with health, is about to open a care home which aims to support children and young people with complex mental health needs to live at home and in their communities.
The service will offer outreach to families who require support to remain together as well as four short to medium term beds registered under the children’s homes regulations 2015.
The successful candidate will join the MDT, which consists of Senior Mental Health practitioners, Social Workers, and residential staff, working jointly to provide holistic care planning, risk management, and therapeutic treatment. The successful candidate will be based within the care home and will receive management and clinical supervision from the CYP Crisis Response Team.
We are looking for an experienced candidate who shares our passion for supporting our most vulnerable children.
As a Family Therapist, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client-centred care to children and young people with mental health problems within this residential setting.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected that the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check with children’s and adult’s barred list.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist generic and discipline-specific assessments of referred clients, using interviews and other assessment methods as appropriate. To formulate and devise treatment plans for referred clients and to provide interventions using a range of generic and discipline-specific models appropriate to the service. This includes both short and long-term treatment approaches. To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals/agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis, and treatment of clients.
To work autonomously providing open access assessment and treatment services based within the community. To contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary assessments and treatment. To carry a caseload of families requiring longer-term family and systemic psychotherapy. To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans, and needs of clients. To liaise with other health, social care, and education staff from a range of agencies in the care provided to clients from each service. To carry out clinical work in health and education settings and clients’ homes to best meet the clients' needs.
Working for our organisation
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 costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As above and full details are on the job description; further details can be provided by contacting the lead interviewer.
Person specification
* Family Therapist with registration
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for an interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process, please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity from showing on the DBS Certificate unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details, in which case this will need to be disclosed.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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