Family Therapist

To lead and provide specialist/expert Systemic Psychotherapy for clients and families with a range of severe and complex psychological presentations, as part of a multi-disciplinary approach within the Perinatal Team. In addition to this you will be expected to provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, teams and professional networks to enable them to work more effectively with clients and their families.
- To lead and present highly complex, sensitive and challenging clinical and professional communication that may impact on service users, carers, staff, the team, the organisation, partner agencies and members of the public, where there are barriers to understanding.
- Promote and support effective working relationships within multi-disciplinary team(s) by working collaboratively and jointly with other team members and professionals from other agencies.
- To communicate highly complex clinical information in a manner that is relevant and appropriate to the family’s needs.

The Perinatal Mental Health Liaison Team is an established and rapidly expanding service which aims to support women during the perinatal period that live in Hull, East Riding, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. We are a specialist team comprising: psychiatrists, Nurses, Social worker, OT, psychological therapists and nursery nurses.

As a service we uphold the values of promoting woman and family centred care whilst ensuring child protection and welfare of the family. We strive to improve public health by endeavouring to reduce mental health morbidity in mothers through interagency working and communication and fostering collaborative working. We aim to raise awareness and competence by delivering education and training events targeted at key professional groups and collaborate with the University of Hull and other key stakeholders in researching perinatal mental health.

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.