Job Title: Family Therapist
Company: Eden Brown Synergy
Location: Bristol, Bristol
Posted:
Closes:
Sector: Medical, Pharmaceutical & Scientific
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Family Therapist required to work with a variety of conditions, including Eating Disorders, Acute Mental Health, Adult Psychiatric Intensive Care, Acquired Brain Injury, Huntington's and Dementia, along with a growing outpatient therapy service. The service covers 77 beds over seven wards.
We are looking to recruit a Family Therapist to the Eating Disorder inpatient service and general psychiatry outpatient service onsite. This is a full-time permanent position, which is an exciting opportunity to provide a systemic family therapy service to the patients receiving inpatient care on our Specialist Eating Disorder Unit and outpatient treatment within our Private therapy service.
This will involve providing specialist systemic assessment & intervention for the patients and their families, participating in assessment, care planning, and facilitating psycho-educational and parent support groups.
Responsibilities include:
1. 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.
2. Attend or contribute to ward rounds, CPAs, MDT assessments, team formulations, and care planning.
3. Offer systemic family therapy to carers and patients using a range of systemic interventions.
4. Run reflective groups to develop systemic thinking across staff groups.
5. Work closely with relevant other professionals as appropriate.
6. Undertake risk assessment and risk management of patients.
7. Provide outpatient appointments working within our Day Care Therapy Service.
8. Implement a range of systemic family therapy and psycho-educational interventions for individual patients, carers, families, and groups.
9. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients whose treatment is managed by psychologically-based care plans.
Minimum Requirements:
1. Experienced in both 1:1 and family/group work.
2. Experienced in working within inpatient mental health services and outpatient mental health services.
3. Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy.
4. Educated to MSc level in Family Therapies.
If this role interests you please contact Rob Murphy on (phone number removed).
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