Family Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family Therapist to join our multi-disciplinary team working with Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) in St Helens.

The post holder will be expected to provide interventions, advice, consultation and supervision to both colleagues and external partner agencies in line with THRIVE and clinical competency.

As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.

This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

To provide specialist generic and discipline-specific assessments of referred clients, using interviews, and other assessment methods as appropriate. To formulate and devise treatment plans for referred clients and to provide interventions using a range of generic and discipline-specific models appropriate to the service. This includes both short and long-term treatment approaches.

To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals/agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.

To work autonomously providing open access assessment and treatment service based within the community. To contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary assessments and treatment. To carry a caseload of families requiring family and systemic psychotherapy. To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of clients. To liaise with other health, social care and education staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients from each service. To carry out clinical work in health and education settings, and clients’ homes to best meet the client's needs.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact:

1. Name: Carl Turner
2. Job title: Clinical Team Manager
3. Email address: Carl.Turner@merseycare.nhs.uk
4. Telephone number: 01925 579 405