An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Senior Systemic Psychotherapist to join the Specialist Eating Disorder Service (adult team). We are a dynamic and values driven multidisciplinary team, focused on delivering high quality effective services for individuals with Eating Disorders. The successful candidate will work across the Tiers providing specialist assessment, advice/consultation and evidence based therapeutic interventions for clients with Eating Disorders across the Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) geographical area. As a senior clinician, you will work alongside the Clinical Lead providing clinical supervision and operational management and will be instrumental in driving forwards innovation and service development in line with Welsh Government and Health Board priorities.
Main duties of the job
1. Clinical practice: As a senior Systemic family therapist, provide a qualified specialist systemic therapy service to clients, their families and groups across this service. This includes specialist assessment, formulation and implementation of plans for psychotherapy, and management of a client's severe enduring and complex mental health problems and risks. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options and plans. Work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team in the delivery of specialist Eating Disorders services across HDUHB.
2. Consultation: Regularly provide advice, consultation and training on clients' psychological care to colleagues within the wider service.
3. Operational management: Responsible for routine caseload management. Clinical supervision, CPD and effective PADR to appropriate colleagues.
4. Service improvement: Assist with the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services operational policies and services. Implement agreed service developments and improvements within the service area. Undertake project management, including audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision and high-quality care.
About us
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services to almost 400,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
Interviews will be held on 13/01/2025.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
* Post graduate MSc or Post Graduate Diploma in Systemic family therapy, in line with requirements of AFT.
* Full accreditation and registration with UKCP as a systemic family psychotherapist.
* Evidence of having completed a recognised professional health/social care qualification that led to registration and specifically included knowledge of models of Psychopathology.
* Evidence of robust knowledge of the methodology of systemic family therapy.
* Additional further study and specialist training in Systemic family therapy.
Desirable
* Supervisor's qualification.
* Qualification in an additional psychological therapy.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, etc).
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
Essential
* Substantial, post accreditation experience, of providing specialist Systemic family therapy assessment and treatment for clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and problems, that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of teaching and training.
* Extensive, post accreditation, experience of providing clinical supervision, post accreditation.
* Evidence of robust application of the therapeutic model and strong fidelity to the model.
Desirable
* Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
* Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist therapist.
* Experience of operational management.
Language Skills
Desirable
* Welsh Speaker (Level 1).
Employer details
Employer name
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Address
Ty Myddfai Psychological Wellbeing Centre
Cillefwr Industrial Estate, Glien Road, Johnstow
Carmarthen
SA31 3RU
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