Family Therapist

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

About us

We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. 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 recognize 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.

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 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 recognized by DOH and AFT.
• Specialist training and experience in a wide range of therapeutic frameworks and interventions with clients and families.
• Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally.

Knowledge

• 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.
• 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.
• Basic IT skills.
• 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

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

Skills

• 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.
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.

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.