Family Therapist

Are you an enthusiastic systemic family therapist with a passion forproviding and developing quality specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services for young people? We want you to join an expanding service recognised by the Care Quality Commission as outstanding.

We have well established Consultant-led teams providing specialist mental health services across East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen. This is an exciting time to join our team as a family therapist as we build on our existing track record and develop our range of services in line with a regional transformation programme modelled on Thrive.

We are looking for a committed Family Therapist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested wider service development initiatives.

This role is open to a qualified Systemic Family Therapist with a qualification as Systemic Family Therapist registered with UKCP. This role requires:

- Experience of working with children and young people
- Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
- The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
- The ability to efficiently manage a caseload
- Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding
- The ability to act as a clinical supervisor or both trainees and colleagues

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is a large and integrated healthcare organisation, with a vision to be widely recognised for delivering safe, personal and effective care. ELCAS is part of the Division of Family Care, and we have close relationships with Paediatric colleagues. We have an innovative Primary Care team working with local GPs; established Mental Health Support Teams in schools; and enjoy good links with a range of third sector agencies through our CYP IAPT Partnership.

East Lancashire is a fantastic place to live and work. We are proud to work with diverse communities in market towns, industrial centres and rural areas. There are excellent schools and very affordable property. There is easy access to the great cities and national parks of North West England and Yorkshire.
1. To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic family therapy interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups, within and across teams including community settings; adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
2. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for children and their families in conjunction with other professional colleagues, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, group or system.
3. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
4. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to systemic formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for the children.

Please see the job description for more detailed description of the job role.