Family Therapist

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Job description

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

About

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides a broad range of community and inpatient mental health services, community services (including therapies), learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addictions services to people living in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, a large geographical area which is home to approximately 600,000 people.

The Trust also provides specialist services for children, including physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and support for children and young people and their families who are experiencing emotional or mental health difficulties.

Our specialist services, such as forensic support and offender health, support patients from the wider Yorkshire and Humber area and from further afield.

The Trust also runs Whitby Hospital, a community hospital providing inpatient, outpatient and community services to Whitby and the surrounding area, and eight GP practices - two in Hull and six in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

We employ approximately 3050 staff across more than 70 sites at locations throughout Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Whitby. As a teaching Trust, we work closely with our major academic partners, Hull York Medical School and Hull University, nurturing a workforce of tomorrow's doctors, nurses and other health professionals.

Key details

Location

Site: St Andrew's Place

Address: 271 St Georges Road

Town: Hull

Postcode: HU3 3SW

Major / Minor Region: East Yorkshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 1.8 sessions per week

• Full time
• Part time

Salary

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Pa

Salary period: Yearly

Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Family/Systemic Practitioner

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.

Job overview

Would you like to work in a friendly and supportive Perinatal Mental Health Team and Maternal Mental Health Service delivering a service across Hull, East Riding, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire to women experiencing perinatal difficulties and maternal loss? We are looking to recruit 0.6 FTE Family Therapist in the Perinatal Mental Health Team and 1.2 FTE in the Maternal Mental Health Service.

Do you like the idea of using your skills in a rewarding and fulfilling way to help women at a crucial point in their lives? We know that providing person-centred care and intervention can impact significantly on quality of life for women as well as that of their children and families and this post will add to our current range of psychological interventions.

The successful candidate will be expected to work alongside our Perinatal Systemic Lead Practitioner in developing and delivering family-based interventions across all of the 4 geographical patches we cover, and also work along with our CBT Therapists developing and delivering systemic psychological interventions within the Maternal Mental Health Service.

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• To lead and provide specialist/expert Systemic Psychotherapy for clients and families with a range of severe and complex psychological presentations, as part of a multi-disciplinary approach.
• To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, teams and professional networks to enable them to work more effectively with clients and their families.

Working for our organisation

We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding.
• Masters level of qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy as recognised by DOH and AFT.
• Specialist training and experience in a wide range of therapeutic frameworks and interventions with clients and families.

Desirable criteria

• Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate the ability to devise, implement and evaluate a wide range of evidence-based therapeutic interventions and treatment plans for clients and their families/carers.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding.
• Skills in providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to recommend and contribute to changes in service delivery and procedures within the team or service context.
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/care pathways/audit within Adult Mental Health.
• Basic IT skills.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts out of own area of work/responsibility.
• Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and audits within identified clinical area.
• Working knowledge of relevant IT database systems necessary for recording clinical activity/reports.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Ability to effectively chair meetings.
• Experience of working with a variety of adults with severe, complex and enduring mental health difficulties and their families.
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context.
• Professional networking locally and regionally.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical supervision within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience of the application of psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
• Effective inter-personal and communication skills and experience in managing in distressing, risky pressured circumstances.
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
• Good time management skills.
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.

Documents

• FT Job Description (488.6) PDF KB
• Recruitment of Ex-offenders (336.6) PDF KB
• Destination Humber - Allied Health Professionals (11.0) PDF MB
• Being Humber (1.1) PDF MB
• Staff Benefits (1.4) PDF MB

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Alex Rawling

Job title: Team Leader

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 01482 336837

Additional information:

Charlotte Cosquer

Systemic Lead for the Perinatal Mental health Team

[email protected]

01482 336837