Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust; West Midlands Combined Authority; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist to work within both inpatient and community settings. The position emphasizes collaboration within a multidisciplinary team, aimed at supporting patients with type 1 diabetes and disordered eating. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in therapeutic interventions, offering a chance to contribute to meaningful patient care and service development. The role includes professional development opportunities and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Discounts with retailers and services

Wellbeing support services

Staff networks and support groups

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in working with eating disorders.
• Ability to work with complex clinical problems.
• Strong communication and consultancy skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized psychotherapy services autonomously.
• Collaborate with inpatient team and multidisciplinary T1DE team.
• Contribute to assessments and care planning.

Skills

Systemic interventions

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Crisis management

Clinical assessments

Job description

Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist

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The post holder will work with inpatients and community patients with type 1 diabetes and disordered eating (T1DE) within the newly established T1DE service. The Aspen Centre is a 15 bed inpatient unit for severe eating disorders and the T1DE service is a nationally funded NHS England service based within the Clinic for Eating Disorders and Diabetes at the Aspen Centre and sits under the Coventry and Warwickshire Eating Disorder Service.

The post holders work will be divided flexibly between the inpatients and community patients presenting with T1DE depending on need.

The post holder will have extensive experience and specialist skills in working with people with eating disorders. Experience in diabetes is not essential and training will be provided in this area. The post holder will work in collaboration with other members of the inpatient team and as part of the multidisciplinary T1DE team.

The post may also include providing advice and consultation to colleagues and other professionals, involvement in service planning and development, staff training and research and development if appropriate.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put people at our heart; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us

excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more

salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more

discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes

wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more

staff networks and support group

Were always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

• To provide a highly specialist systemic psychotherapy service, working autonomously within professional guidelines and service objectives.
• To provide highly specialised systemic interventions drawing from a broad spectrum of systemic models and as part of an agreed package of care, managed within the context of multidisciplinary working.
• To work in collaboration with other members of the inpatient team and as part of the multidisciplinary T1DE team.
• To work with complex and multifaceted clinical problems within an emotionally charged or difficult context
• To contribute to multidisciplinary assessments, care planning, clinical reports and referral to other appropriate agencies / services if necessary.
• To work flexibly between the inpatient unit and the T1DE community pathway as required
• To liaise and work with other members of the Coventry and Warwickshire Eating Disorders Service
• To participate in multidisciplinary meetings, child protection case conferences, reviews, etc. providing professional advice on individual care programme planning and other clinical matters as necessary, and chairing certain meetings if appropriate
• To provide advice, consultancy and, where appropriate, supervision to other practitioners who provide direct intervention in individual cases and with groups of clients
  
  

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