About this role
Job summary
This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 22.5 hours per week.
Are you an experienced & creative Family Therapist? We are seeking an enthusiastic & compassionate Systemic Family Therapist with experience of working in Eating Disorders services to join a new multidisciplinary team of professionals.
The part-time Systemic Family Therapist will join a team which provides a well-established, highly specialist service for young people in Gloucestershire. You will work with young people up to 18 years and their families/carers, with significant mental health difficulties.
You will demonstrate strong leadership skills, have extensive experience of multiagency working & a proven track record of delivering high quality care and treatment. Experience of working within a physical health/paediatric context would also be helpful in terms of confidently managing the demands that flow through this developing clinical service.
Main duties of the job
The All-Age Eating Disorders Service consists of 3 specialist teams from aged 6+: The Risks High in Eating Disorders (RHED) team, the Front Door Team and the Treatment team. This role will join the current Psychologists, psychiatrists, dieticians and clinicians to provide a more comprehensive delivery of Family Therapy.
The post holder will:
o To provide highly specialists clinical services within the Eating Disorders Community Service.
o Service delivered in a varied settings and locations if required - including medical wards.
o Training, consultancy and supervision to a range of specialist staff and professionals in other agencies.
o To contribute to the development of a Family Therapy within the Eating Disorders service.
o To contribute toward service development in line with the ongoing transformation agenda.
o Within defined area of specialism job impacts across the County of Gloucestershire (pop. 623,000).
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question. 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region. 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%. This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job description Job responsibilities
We welcome discussion/applications both from those with the relevant experience and HCPC registration, and also from those who are about to qualify / have more recently completed training. In the latter case we would discuss amendments to role with a view to appointing at Band 7 and supporting progression to Band 8a role.
Clinical
You will organise and coordinate a family therapy service to young people and their families referred to the service
You will provide thorough, evidence based assessments of the families of young people who have an eating disorder
You will provide treatment based on the current eating disorder evidence and compliant with NICE guidelines
You will be competent to deliver this treatment with clinical skill and expertise, taking into account family fit
You will have a knowledge of, or training in, other interventions in eating disorder treatment such as DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy), CRT (Cognitive Remediation Therapy) and ABFT (Attachment Based Family Therapy)
You will deliver an agreed number of family interventions within an evidence based approach
As a Family Therapist you will work autonomously, being responsible for your own clinical caseload
Advice and guidance is generally via professional clinical supervision
You will be required to have involvement in construction of certain protocols relevant to clinical area and in general agreement with line manager. The post holder is allowed to interpret these as appropriate
It will be expected that you would make suggestions to wider clinical team on different ways of dealing with this specific client group and following through with appropriate action rebalancing and prioritising tasks to meet demands
You will be involved in complex negotiations with colleagues about the place of family intervention in relation to other interventions and planning the pace of these connected but distinct methods
To be involved in discussions relating to implementing new developments in the clinical area
The post includes organising, planning and delivering specialist training/ consultation and supervision to colleagues within Eating Disorders and Mental Health services, therefore the post holder should have some experience of these activities
Provide and co ordinate a family therapy service to young people/adults and their families referred to the service
Responsible for assessing, developing, outlining and implementing highly specialist family therapy treatment packages to young people and their families
Develop highly specialised programmes of treatment - Develop and agree plans of a complex nature around the care of young people and wider service interventions that will require high levels of formulation and will need to be reviewed and adjusted over time
Refer a young person or members of their family to other services / agencies as appropriate
Provide highly specialist advice and consultation in respect to individual cases and family therapy in general to professional colleagues
Contribute in an active way to the network of services organised for young people and their families within eating disorder services
You will be responsible for ensuring that colleagues in the eating disorder service are able to implement family treatment and this will include collaborating on longer term training or strategy plans.
Teaching, training, supervision and consultancy
To ensure that other staff, professionals, and managers (across a range of agencies and settings) have access to a Family Therapy based framework for the understanding and care of patients of the Eating Disorders service, through the provision of specialist advice, guidance and consultation and the sharing of research and theory.
To provide regular training updates for the whole team.
Research activities, service evaluation and development
The Family Therapist uses professional skills and knowledge including research, service evaluation and audit to suggest ways to improve and develop practice.
Ensures reflective scientist-practitioner approach in own practice and that of supervisees
To provide research advice to other staff undertaking research
To undertake project management including complex audit and service evaluation to help develop service provision
To utilise theory, evidence based literature and research to support and develop evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
Analysis and Judgement
Provide and co-ordinate family therapy service to individuals and families.
Assess complex cases and make decisions about what treatment is best for individuals and families. These decisions can be of highly complex and sensitive where information is conflicting or where expert opinion may differ
The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
Person Specification
essential Essential
Registered as Practitioner Psychotherapist with the HPC
Desirable
Chartered status
essential Essential
Post Graduate doctoral level training in Family Therapy (or equivalent Applied Psychology qualification), as accredited by the B.P.S
Desirable
Evidence in application of Psychotherapy knowledge to improve and develop practice in work to date
desireable Essential
Receipt of at least 25 hours clinical supervision while working at a highly specialist level in a directly relevant area and in an increasingly autonomous capacityEssentialApplication Form Interview
Desirable
Broad range of post-qualification experience
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address Brownhill Centre or Eastgate House
Swindon Road or Eastgate Street
Cheltenham or Gloucester
GL52 9EZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)