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 role will involve:
1. Providing specialist systemic assessment & intervention for the patients and their families.
2. Participating in assessment, care planning, and facilitating psycho-educational and parent support groups.
3. Offering 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.
4. Attending or contributing to ward rounds, CPAs, MDT assessments, team formulations, and care planning.
5. Offering systemic family therapy to carers and patients using a range of systemic interventions.
6. Providing systemic consultations across the MDT and contributing to thinking about patients and their families from a systemic psychotherapy perspective.
7. Running reflective groups to develop systemic thinking across staff groups.
8. Working closely with relevant other professionals as appropriate.
9. Undertaking risk assessment and risk management of patients.
10. Offering outpatient appointments working within our Day Care Therapy Service.
11. Providing specialist assessments to adults who are receiving treatment on our Eating Disorder ward and referred for therapy within our outpatient service.
12. Implementing a range of systemic family therapy and psycho-educational interventions for individual patients, carers, families, and groups.
13. Exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients whose treatment is managed by psychologically-based care plans.
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).
Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.
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