Systemic Family Therapist

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Ipswich seeks a Family Therapist to join the Adult Eating Disorders Service. You will provide systemic interventions and support the multi-disciplinary team, enhancing clinical practice. Required qualifications include a Master's or Doctoral qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy and eligibility for UKCP registration. The role offers competitive benefits including comprehensive training and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Comprehensive in-house & external training programmes

Career progression

Starting annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by UKCP/AFT guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide systemic interventions for individuals, carers, and families.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to enhance clinical support.
• Communicate complex information sensitively.

Skills

Skills in applying systemic theory

Ability to support professional development

Ability to work with organisational stress

Education

Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy

Eligibility for UKCP registration

Training in teaching Systematic Psychotherapy

Job description

8a Family Therapist - Adult Eating Disorders Service

Are you:

Feeling passionate about improving the wellbeing and lives of people with eating disorders?

Seeking to develop specialist skills to assess, formulate and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions for this client group?

Interested in supporting and empowering the wider team?

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) Suffolk Community Adult Eating Disorders Service are looking for a suitably experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with a desire to develop their specialist skills in eating disorders.

We are passionate about service improvement and taking our clinical practice to a level of excellence - and we would like you to be part of this!

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting new job role which will afford you the opportunity to offer specialist systemic input within a team, and help us enhance our clinical support and practice to the community that we serve. You will be a valued part of the multi-disciplinary team working within the county-wide Suffolk Adult Eating Disorders Service with bases in Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.

As the successful candidate you will be directly systemic interventions for individuals, carers and families, as well as providing systemic consultation to the wider care system, including acute hospital trusts and other secondary care mental health services. You will be supported to fulfil this specialist role through training and regular clinical and management supervision. We are eager for you to play a key part in the transformation and development of our service.

You will be skilled in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment, intervention and management, and have the ability to communicate highly complex information in a sensitive and compassionate manner.

About us

Working for this organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive. In addition to consolidating our NICE-recommended treatment offer, we also welcome innovative treatment approaches to delivering eating disorder care. We will support you to access relevant specialist training and contribute to treatment evaluation.

Recognising the value of our psychological workforce, you will be part of a psychology-led care group, which is currently offering a competitive recruitment incentive.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)

NHS discounts and many more

Job responsibilities

The post holder will have experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.

You will be skills in use of complex methods of systemic assessment, intervention and management and possess well developed communication skills. You will be working closely with the already established systemic workforce in the service, as well as the senior leadership teams.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

* Previous applicants need not apply *

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy
• Eligibility for UKCP registration
• Training in teaching Systematic Psychotherapy

Experience

• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by UKCP/AFT guidelines

Skills

• Skills in applying systemic theory to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations
• Ability to support development of profession though participation in professional bodies and activities
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stresses of others

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.

Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist