Consultant Family Therapist

4 weeks ago

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom NHS Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and innovative Consultant Family Therapist to join our team at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. This pivotal role will contribute to the ongoing development of psychological therapies within the integrated Adult Mental Health Teams (AMHTs) in Oxfordshire.

Main Responsibilities
  • Provide clinical leadership, service development, supervision, training, and management to enhance the quality and reach of our services.
  • Work closely with senior Psychological Therapists and Adult Mental Health Team colleagues to develop and deliver the clinical service model, with a focus on the ongoing development of our family therapy clinic.
  • Engage in multidisciplinary team meetings, triage case consultations, and joint initiatives to foster an environment where diverse perspectives are respected and integrated into our service delivery.
About Us

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and North East Somerset.

We deliver our services at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people's homes, aiming to provide care as close to home as possible.

Our vision is to deliver "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team".

Requirements
  • Professional postgraduate qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline or agreed Association for Family Therapy (AFT) equivalent.
  • Postgraduate qualification in family/systemic psychotherapy.
  • Registration as Clinical Supervisor by the Association for Family Therapy (AFT)
  • Couples Therapy qualification
Experience
  • Extensive experience of working as a qualified family and systemic psychotherapist with post-qualification experience at a highly specialist level.
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
  • Experience of teaching, training, and supervision of professional and clinical staff.
  • Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified Family and systemic psychotherapists and/or other psychological therapies staff
  • Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
  • Experience of the application of family and systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
  • Experience of collaborating with service users and carers in the development or review of service provision.
Personal Qualities
  • Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical/counselling psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
  • Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
  • A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
Knowledge and Skills
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
  • Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
  • Knowledge of legislation and NHS policy and its implications for both clinical practice, professional management, and service development in relation to the client group and mental health
  • Advanced skills in professional supervision to meet UKCP requirements.
  • Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide range of contexts including highly specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes.
  • Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality Disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and severely challenging behaviours etc.)
  • Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised systemic psychotherapies.
Other Requirements
  • Ability to identify, provide, and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
  • Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
  • Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional, and academic settings.
  • Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical/counselling psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
  • Record of having published in either peer-reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Oxfordshire Psychological Therapies Lead

£74,290 to £85,601 a yearPer annum/pro-rata

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