Systemic Family Psychotherapist

Reference

PRI96679

Location

Woodbourne Priory Hospital, 21 Woodbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B17 8BY

Priory Group Division

Healthcare

Salary

£38,000 to £44,000 pro rata £30,400 to £35,200

Hours

30

Vacancy Type

Permanent - Part Time

Job Advert Location Description

Providing quality, inspiring innovation and  delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health illness to receive a truly integrated and holistic approach to their treatment, regardless of complexity or severity, thanks to the knowledge and expertise of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.

Set in the leafy suburb of Edgbaston, close to Birmingham City centre, Priory Hospital Woodbourne is set in beautiful grounds, conveniently located for access to the West Midlands motorway network and with good local public transport links. 
Our unique range of services gives our colleagues the opportunity to develop skills and experience of working with a broad range of mental health conditions across four mental health service lines, across the hospital’s seven wards. 

Woodbourne hospital provides a diverse range of inpatient services. These include acute and psychiatric intensive care services for adults. A specialist adult Eating Disorder service and a private addictions service.  Across seven wards, our multi-disciplinary teams deliver personalised treatment programmes to our patients and have established an excellent reputation for providing the highest standards of care.

Job Advert Role Description

Priory Hospital Woodbourne is looking to recruit a Family Therapist to the Eating Disorder inpatient service. This position is for 24 hours a week which is an exciting opportunity to provide a systemic family therapy service to the patients receiving inpatient care on our Specialist Eating Disorder Unit .

The role will involve:

• Providing specialist systemic assessment & intervention for the patients and their families.
• Participating in assessment, care planning and facilitate psycho-educational and parent support groups.
• Offer advice and consultation on the psychological care of patients and their families to colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures

The successful candidate will also:

• Attend or contribute to ward rounds, CPAs, MDT assessments, team formulations and care planning.
• Offer systemic family therapy to carers and patients using a range of systemic interventions.
• Offer systemic consultations across the MDT and contribute to thinking about patients and their families from a systemic psychotherapy perspective.
• Run reflective groups to develop systemic thinking across staff groups.
• To work closely with relevant other professionals as appropriate.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management of patients.
• To receive regular clinical supervision from a senior family therapist and where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues
• To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patients across the Eating Disorder service.
• Experienced in both 1:1 and family/group work
• Experienced in working within inpatient mental health services.

Essential:

• Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy.
• Educated to MSc level in Family Therapies.
• Previous experience within Eating Disorders would be desirable.

Division DBS info

About us

As one of the UK’s leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services, Priory promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development. Across our network of hospitals, residential care homes and supported living services, we are making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people we support.

As part of our wider infection control efforts, and to meet our commissioner and customer requirements, we continue to record vaccination status for all colleagues and we therefore request that you disclose this information as part of your Pre-Employment checks. Your vaccination status will not affect any offer of employment and will be held in line with GDPR requirements.  We thank you for your understanding. 

Disclosure

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.

Closing Date

31/10/2024