Family Therapist inFulbourn inFulbourn PUBLISHED 21 AUG 2024

The Eating Disorder Intensive Treatment Hub are looking for an experienced Family Therapist with the right skills to complement our small multidisciplinary team.

You will work within our newly commissioned Day service and network closely with our existing community teams helping families and young people to thrive. As a new service there will be lots of opportunity for contributing to the new model of care for eating disorders in the region.

We will provide Supervision, reflective practice, training, and opportunities for professional development. We are passionate about improving standards and service user/carer experiences.

We would love to meet you if you have experience working with children and young people with eating disorders.


This role will initially be based at our Ida Darwin site in Fulbourn before relocating in approx. 12 months (date TBC) to our Brookside Family Consultation Clinic in Cambridge.


To provide and a qualified highly specialist systemic family therapy service to clients of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

• The post holder will provide a systemic overview of the family approach to the treatment of mental health disorders within complex situations, specialising in eating disorders.
• The post-holder will be responsible for co-ordinating, developing and delivering a variety of family and systemic interventions.
• 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.
• The post holder will provide an important leadership role in the service overall, including multi-disciplinary team functioning, family involvement, training and development, and service development and evaluation
• The post-holder will offer advice and consultation on clients’ care to all colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and codes of ethics and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• The post holder will be accountable for their own professional actions and will need to interpret broad service priorities and policies (i.e. commitment to a family approach to treatment, involving service users and carers at all levels of treatment and service development).
  
  

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.


Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.


For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.jobsincare.com/job/jEecWfmm further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nyssa Cooper Job title: Service Manager Email address:


This role will initially be based at our Ida Darwin site in Fulbourn before relocating in approx. 12 months (date TBC) to our Brookside Family Consultation Clinic in Cambridge, CB2 8AH .