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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