Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Family Therapist
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Job Overview
Milton Keynes Lifespan Eating Disorder Service (MK-LEDS) are offering an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, ambitious, and motivated Systemic and Family Psychotherapist to join our team. Working within CNWL - MK, there are lots of opportunities for development, training, and working across a lifespan eating disorder service and CAMHS.
Main Duties of the Job
The role of Family and Systemic Psychotherapist is to provide an active clinical role to complement the wider multi-disciplinary team, which is made up of psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, and support workers. This is an NHS Specialist Eating Disorder Service intended to meet the complex mental health needs of young people and adults and their families.
Working for Our Organisation
We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe, and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic, or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top-quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams, and the Trust. With every new employee, we hope to find our future leaders and support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities, and more, whatever stage of your career you are at, there is always a place for you at CNWL.
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Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
To provide a highly specialist systemic assessment of service users and families presenting with significant and highly complex mental health and relationship issues, using the appropriate interpretations and integration of complex information from a variety of other professionals.
For further information about this post, please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
- Post-graduate degree in an appropriate mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent
- Master's/Doctoral level qualification or equivalent in Systemic Family Therapy
- Further specialist training gained through CPD
- Registered with the UKCP (United Kingdom Child Psychotherapy)
- Member of AFT/IFT or similar
Experience
Essential Criteria
- Substantial experience at graduate level or equivalent in a mental health or social welfare
- Substantial experience post-qualifying as a Family Therapist, working with eating disorders
- Experience of working therapeutically with families and children in various contexts
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of working therapeutically in a multidisciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team
- Experience of teaching and training Systemic Family Therapy to other professionals
Knowledge and Skills
Essential Criteria
- A high level of skill in assessing the client system, and identifying and prioritising interactional patterns, family dynamics, and context
- Highly developed communication skills in relation to complex condition-related conversations with children, parents, family systems, carers, and professionals in other agencies
- Knowledge of the Children Act, 1989/2004, and ability to work with child protection procedures
- Organisational skills and an ability to plan and prioritise own patient workload and family sessions in the Family Therapy clinic
- Ability to interpret and act within ethical and Trust guidelines and in accordance with the rules of professional conduct
- Highly developed negotiating skills with families often in a very emotive atmosphere with multiple perspectives
- Advanced skills in report and letter writing
- Ability to work autonomously being accountable for own professional decisions
- Ability to interpret and act within ethical and Trust guidelines and in accordance with the rules of professional conduct
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Desirable Criteria
- Knowledge of psychiatric disorders and risk assessment
- Knowledge of research methodology and audit practices as practiced within clinical Family Therapy research
- Ability to train and supervise trainees and other professionals in the Systemic Family Therapy modality
- Interest in working with sexually abused children/young people and their families
Physical Skills
Essential Criteria
- Telephone skills
- IT skills
- Current full driving license
- Advanced video skills
Disposition
Essential Criteria
- Tactful, trustworthy, and sensitive to other people's feelings
- Calmness when dealing with conflicting pressures
- Ability to work with other professionals in a multidisciplinary team
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