Opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team, fostering collaboration and holistic care.
Ability to directly support vulnerable children and their families, making a meaningful impact in their lives.
Access to clinical supervision and management support, enhancing professional development.
Involvement in a newly established service that focuses on innovative care strategies for children with complex mental health needs.
Flexibility in working arrangements, promoting work-life balance.
Participation in national and local initiatives, ensuring continuous professional growth and alignment with best practices.
A strong commitment to 'perfect care,' emphasizing high-quality treatment and positive experiences for clients.
Join our compassionate team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a Family Therapist and play a vital role in transforming the lives of children and young people with complex mental health needs. Based in Prescot, this new initiative in collaboration with Warrington Council aims to provide essential support to families, helping them to stay together while offering short to medium-term residential care. You will become part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team, working closely with mental health practitioners, social workers, and residential staff to deliver holistic and evidence-based care.
We’re looking for someone who shares our passion for nurturing the most vulnerable members of our community. As a Family Therapist, you will not only develop tailored treatment plans but will also provide ongoing support and guidance to both clients and other professionals. This role offers the flexibility to work autonomously and engage with families directly in their homes and community settings. If you are an experienced therapist eager to make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you. Flexible working options are available to support your work-life balance. Reach out to us today to learn more about this rewarding opportunity!
Opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team, fostering collaboration and holistic care.
Ability to directly support vulnerable children and their families, making a meaningful impact in their lives.
Access to clinical supervision and management support, enhancing professional development.
Involvement in a newly established service that focuses on innovative care strategies for children with complex mental health needs.
Flexibility in working arrangements, promoting work-life balance.
Participation in national and local initiatives, ensuring continuous professional growth and alignment with best practices.
A strong commitment to 'perfect care,' emphasizing high-quality treatment and positive experiences for clients.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family Therapist to to join our multi disciplinary team working into a new service within Warrington.
Warrington Council in partnership with health are about to open up a care home which aims to support children and young people with complex mental health needs to live at home and in their communities.
The service will offer outreach to families who require support to remain together as well as 4 short to medium term beds registered under the children’s homes regulations 2.
The successful candidate will join the (MDT), which consists of Senior Mental health practitioners, Social workers and residential staff, Working jointly to provide holistic care planning, risk management and therapeutic treatment. The successful candidates will be based within the care home, they will receive management and clinical supervision from the CYP Crisis Response Team.
We are looking for a experienced candidate who shares our passion for supporting our most vulnerable children.
As a Family Therapist , the post holder will provide high standards of evidence based client centred care to children and young people with Mental Health problems within this residential setting.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
To provide specialist generic and discipline specific assessments of referred clients, using interview, and other assessment methods as appropriate. To formulate and devise treatment plans for referred clients and to provide interventions using a range of generic and discipline specific models appropriate to the service. This includes both short and long term treatment approaches. To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals/ agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
To work autonomously providing open access assessment and treatment service based within the community. To contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary assessments and treatment . To carry a caseload of families requiring longer term family and systemic psychotherapy. To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of clients. To liaise with other health, social care and education staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients from each service. To carry out clinical work in health and education settings, and clients’ homes to best meet the clients needs .
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alexandra Bellamy Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: Telephone number:
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