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Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist
The closing date is 30 June 2025
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.
Main duties of the job
The post holder's 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.
About us
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
We're 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.
Job responsibilities
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
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent in a professional field such as Social Work, Nursing or Clinical Psychology qualification
* Successfully completed an AFT-accredited qualifying masters level course in systemic psychotherapy or who have met the equivalent criteria as laid down by the UKCP for 'grandparent' and 'APEL' qualification as systemic psychotherapists
* Graduate-level qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and extensive post-qualification practice.
* Maintenance of UK Council for Psychotherapy registration by attendance at short or long training courses to meet continuing professional development requirements.
Experience
* Extensive practice in relevant first profession
* Considerable experience of working with families in child and adolescent mental health services or equivalent experience.
* Assessed experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Other
* Must hold a current driving licence and have independent means of transport.
* Must be willing to travel between Trust sites as required.
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.
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