Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist inStoke-on-Trent inStoke-on-Trent PUBLISHED
THU 23 JAN 2025
Key responsibilities include assessing family dynamics, providing consultation, managing a varied caseload, coordinating care plans, and ensuring effective communication among multidisciplinary teams. The role also involves supervising others in systemic therapy, engaging in continuous professional development, and maintaining video equipment for therapy purposes. The position emphasises evidence-based practices and a family-centered approach to treatment, with expectations for innovative service development and accountability for professional actions within the team's framework.
Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist - The Darwin Centre - Band 8A (Part time - 30 hours per week)
We are seeking talented and experienced staff to work within our Inpatient Unit. We currently have a vacancy for a Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist at the Darwin Centre
The Darwin Centre embraces a whole team approach to delivering a therapeutic service for younger people from the age of 12 - 18 years.
It will be a fantastic opportunity for an inspiring individual that wants to enhance their knowledge and skills within a young person inpatient setting.
To provide a qualified highly specialist systemic family therapy service. This post provides a systemic overview of the family approach to the treatment of complex mental health disorders, in particular eating disorders.
The post-holder will be responsible for co-ordinating, developing and delivering a variety of family and systemic interventions. These interventions are highly specialised, reflecting an expectation that the service will continue to develop innovative practices that are based on collaboration between clinicians, service users and carers, and commissioners of the service.
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 be expected to offer advice and consultation on clients' care to all colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
The post holder will also be accountable for their own professional actions and will need to interpret broad occupational policies (i.e. commitment to a family approach to treatment, involving service users and carers at all levels of treatment and service development).
To supervise others in the field of systemic therapy.
About us
- Responsible for the delivery of a full range of family treatments to all patients. These treatments will include the following systemic psychotherapy intervention
- Family Based treatment model
- The post holder is expected to participate in assessments of patients referred for treatment and to consult to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues regarding the family treatment component of each patients care. Assessment of family interactions and formulating how these are connected to diagnostic factors will be a key component of the post, influencing the direction of treatment and recommendations for appropriate family interventions.
- To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
- To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this.
- To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of systemic assessment and formulation and treatment outcome, in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
- To assist in the management of the team caseload.
- To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
- To provide appropriate care for clients not engaged in treatment including: psycho-education, liaising with other professionals, engaging in treatment including using structured approaches such as motivational interviewing, risk assessment, health promotion and crisis intervention.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
- To act as care coordinator, responsible for the formulation of the care plan and the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs. Coordinating the work of others involved with care, taking responsibility for arranging reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
- Responsible for maintaining video equipment and for training colleagues in the use of this.
- As a senior member of the team the post-holder is expected to contribute significantly to the resolution of conflicts between staff and the maintenance of a well-functioning multi-disciplinary team.
- In common with all Systemic Psychotherapists the post-holder will be responsible for ensuring that they receive regular clinical supervision and continuing professional development, in accordance with United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy/Association of Family Therapy requirements and good standards practice guidelines.
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