Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist
Job summary
Are you an experienced family therapist passionate about delivering high-quality clinical interventions within a friendly and established psychological therapies team?
We have an exciting opportunity to join our specialist adolescent inpatient services in secure settings, working with young people and their families.
One vacancy is at Austen House, which is comprised of two co-located services - a brand-new adolescent Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), and a Low Secure adolescent service, this is a permanent full time vacancy at 37.5 hours per week.
If the vacancy has closed and you are still interested in applying, we welcome offline applications. Please contact our recruitment team directly to discuss how to proceed.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
Austen House Family therapy is a highly valued provision in the team and wider service.
There is strong support from the Team Manager for the successful candidate to utilise their specialist skills and experience to contribute to the team. The successful candidate will be working directly with families and young people alongside another family therapist and also help to influence the units' culture.
You will work alongside other therapy colleagues (registered psychologists, psychological therapists, art and music therapists and assistant psychologists) and a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team. The post contains a range of duties which include a combination of direct clinical work with young people and families, as well as work with other members of the MDT in promoting a psychologically informed environment through teaching, consultation and supervision. You will have the willingness to think creatively, commitment to compassionate care and flexibility to think outside traditional clinical models.
You should have a good understanding of young people presenting with severe mental health and behavioural difficulties. You will need to be a confident practitioner, ideally with experience in inpatient or CAMHS services, and be adaptable to ever changing needs and pressures.
