Systemic Family Therapist

3 weeks ago


Southampton, United Kingdom Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you an experienced family/systemic therapist who wants to provide high quality clinical interventions as part of a friendly, well-established psychological therapies team? We are looking to recruit a Family Therapist with experience, passion and flexibility to join our specialist adolescent inpatient services. Family therapy is highly valued; you will work directly with families and young people alongside another family therapist, and also help to influence the units' values and philosophy.

The role will span 2 co-located services; a brand-new adolescent PICU and low secure adolescent service. Initially the PICU will be located in Bluebird House, which is a sister unit on the same Tatchbury Mount site and will move to Austen house to join the low secure service once building works have concluded.

Our ideal candidate will have the willingness to think creatively, commitment to compassionate care and flexibility to think outside traditional clinical models. Duties include direct clinical work, and work with staff teams through providing and or participating in formulation and reflective practice sessions, as well as teaching, consultation, and supervision. A major part of the job role will be to promote the Austen House Psychological Model of Care, which is based around an understanding of attachment and trauma and enhanced psychologically informed nurse-led everyday care.

As our families are from a wide geographical area, the role will involve travelling to see families/video conferencing.

Main duties of the job

To provide a Systemic Family Therapy service to individuals, their families, and carers, incorporating highly specialist assessment and treatment. The postholder will provide a vital link between a young person's family or carers and the unit. They will also provide advice and consultation on systemic issues to colleagues across the unit and help other staff understand how aspects of family functioning influence a young person. They will provide supervision and management of trainee and qualified staff as required.

Austen House is a co-located new Psychiatric Intensive Care Service for young people and Low Secure hospital with 14 beds which are can be used flexibly over the 2 services. The postholder will be involved in ongoing service development, contribute to care models and policies for the unit. The post holder will work within the psychological therapies team within the service and promote a psychologically informed environment.

The postholder will work alongside other psychological therapy colleagues and a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do. We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities. We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

The Post-holder must possess dual qualifications: *a core professional qualification within Education, Health, Social Work or Management and *a post-graduate clinical Diploma/Master's Degree in Systemic Family Therapy from a training institute recognised by the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (AFT) or equivalent ( the equivalence criteria laid down by UKCP for "grandparent" and "APEL" qualification as Family Therapists). The Post-holder must possess an active registration as a Systemic Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

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