Job overview
We are excited to recruit a Band Family Therapist to join the S Adult Eating Disorder inpatient team. Together with the two current Principal Clinical Psychologists, the post-holder will be responsible for co-ordinating, developing and delivering a variety of family and systemic interventions.
This post provides a systemic overview of the family approach to the treatment of complex mental health disorders, specialising in eating disorders and will provide a qualified systemic family therapy service to inpatients and families of patients with an Eating Disorder.
This role will require seamless working with the ward MDT, the wider trust and other professional agencies such as the provider collaborative.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified highly specialist systemic family therapy service to clients who are inpatients on Ward S. These interventions are highly specialised, reflecting an expectation that the service will continue to develop innovative practices that are based on collaboration between clinicians, service users and carers, and commissioners of the service. The post holder will be responsible for this process by researching new practices, understanding and applying evidence-based approaches both in relation to family treatments and in the involvement of service users and carers.
Some weekend/evening working will be necessary to support access for families and patients to attend family sessions/multi family days.
The post-holder will be expected to offer advice and consultation on clients’ care to all colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
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