Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist - The Darwin Centre - Band 8A (Part time - 30 hours per week)
We are seeking talented and experienced staff to work within our Inpatient Unit. We currently have a vacancy for a Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist at the Darwin Centre.
The Darwin Centre embraces a whole team approach to delivering a therapeutic service for younger people from the age of 12 - 18 years.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an inspiring individual who wants to enhance their knowledge and skills within a young person inpatient setting.
Main Duties of the Job
To provide a qualified highly specialist systemic family therapy service. This post provides a systemic overview of the family approach to the treatment of complex mental health disorders, particularly eating disorders.
The post-holder will be responsible for coordinating, developing, and delivering a variety of family and systemic interventions. These interventions are highly specialized, reflecting an expectation that the service will continue to develop innovative practices based on collaboration between clinicians, service users, and carers, and commissioners of the service.
The post holder will be responsible for researching new practices, understanding, and applying evidence-based approaches related to family treatments and the involvement of service users and carers.
The post-holder will be expected to offer advice and consultation on clients' care to all colleagues and other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
The post holder will also be accountable for their own professional actions and will need to interpret broad occupational policies (i.e., commitment to a family approach to treatment, involving service users and carers at all levels of treatment and service development).
To supervise others in the field of systemic therapy.
About Us
Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our team prides itself on compassion, teamwork, and resilience.
The Service will be based at the Darwin Centre, our Tier 4 CAMHS Inpatient Unit.
The Team will offer a full induction package.
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation, and we'd like you to be part of it. To excel, you will be an enthusiastic, caring, and compassionate person looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been recognized by the Care Quality Commission as the fastest improving Mental Health Trust in the Country.
In return, we offer:
* We cover the cost of your DBS Check (£44)
* Competitive staff benefits such as weekly offers and discounts
* Individual Personal Development Plan and Career Progression
* Excellent pension scheme available
* 27-33 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)
* Free parking
Job Responsibilities
* Responsible for the delivery of a full range of family treatments to all patients, including systemic psychotherapy interventions.
* Participate in assessments of patients referred for treatment and consult with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues regarding the family treatment component of each patient's care. Assessment of family interactions and formulating how these are connected to diagnostic factors will be a key component of the post, influencing the direction of treatment and recommendations for appropriate family interventions.
* Communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers, and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care.
* Monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care and provide appropriate reports on this.
* Produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of systemic assessment and formulation and treatment outcome, understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
* Assist in the management of the team caseload.
* Work in partnership with other disciplines and maintain links with statutory, non-statutory, and primary care agencies as appropriate.
* Provide appropriate care for clients not engaged in treatment, including psycho-education, liaising with other professionals, and engaging in treatment using structured approaches such as motivational interviewing, risk assessment, health promotion, and crisis intervention.
* Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
* Act as care coordinator, responsible for the formulation of the care plan and provision of a care package appropriate for the client's needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, taking responsibility for arranging reviews as required, and communicating effectively with the client, family, and others involved in the network of care, and monitor progress during multi-disciplinary interventions.
* Maintain video equipment and train colleagues in its use.
* As a senior member of the team, contribute significantly to the resolution of conflicts between staff and the maintenance of a well-functioning multi-disciplinary team.
* Ensure regular clinical supervision and continuing professional development in accordance with United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy/Association of Family Therapy requirements and good standards practice guidelines.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* M.Sc. or equivalent qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy/Family Therapy.
Experience
* Previous experience as a Senior Systemic/Family Psychotherapist working in a related health care or social care setting.
Qualifications
* UKCP registered Family Therapist.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata
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