Senior Family and Couples Therapist – PD&CN Specialist MDT inBasildon inBasildon PUBLISHED
WED 11 DEC 2024
The PD&CN Team consists of a multidisciplinary group dedicated to providing high-quality care for clients facing challenges related to personality disorders. This diverse team includes psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, and assistant psychologists, actively collaborating with various local psychology and mental health services to improve treatment strategies. The position offers a unique opportunity for professional development in a supportive environment committed to trauma-informed care and continuous learning.
It is an exciting time to join Essex Partnership University Foundation NHS Trust as we continue the successful development of treatment pathways, new processes and therapeutic provisions to meet the needs of our clients with a diagnosis or traits of personality disorder.
Systemic Family therapy is considered to be a vital contribution to this client group and to service developments. This post will join the Personality Disorder and Complex Needs (PD&CN) Team with a flexible and unique remit. This post has the ability to provided Family Therapy to clients and families to support them across transitions of care, to engage the locality care team, client and family and offering a more traditional family therapy treatment.
EPUT is embracing a trauma informed care approach. The post holder will support this transformation via direct involvement with clients and colleagues taking a systemic overview to support the understanding of the experience of our clients in our services. The successful candidate will join a group of systemic psychotherapists/family therapists across the Trust who are supported by the new development of lead for this staff group.
In addition to delivering clinical sessions the post holder will support other colleagues in engaging the client with their families across the treatment provision, as agreed with the client. The Systemic Family Therapist will be involved in developing carers' education sessions, formulations sessions with clients and families, systemic support for colleagues with their clients and direct family therapy! An exciting and diverse role that will enable and support the continued development of the successful candidate. As a senior position the post holder will support the management of the service.
The successful post holder will need to demonstrate their ability to be client focused, understand what is meant by trauma informed care, use this and their systemic orientation in clinical thinking and interactions with colleagues, carers and other stakeholders at all times.
About us
The Personality Disorder and Complex Needs Team is enthusiastic about and committed to the provision and development of high quality services for clients identified with difficulties that are or could be diagnosed as PD. The team is comprised of a senior psychologist, 2 psychotherapists 1 specialising with young adults, a social worker, 2 assistant psychologists. We have working remit across the Trust. Our networks include closing working with PD Leads from local psychology teams, the Transitions Team, psychological support for discharge, and the community mental health teams via the provision of a Multi-Agency Forum in each locality, to discuss formulation and treatment planning. We are developing valuable closer links with psychotherapy and medical psychotherapists. We are passionate about trauma informed care and support this with clinical and non-clinical colleagues with training, supervision and reflective practice.
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