Job summary
- Main area
- Family Therapist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 350-CC7092206
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birch Unit
- Town
- St Helens
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/05/2025
Employer heading
Family Therapist
Band 8a
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family Therapist to join our multi-disciplinary team working with Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) in St Helens.
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions, advice, consultation and supervision to both colleagues and external partner agencies in line with THRIVE and clinical competency.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist generic and discipline-specific assessments of referred clients, using interviews, and other assessment methods as appropriate. To formulate and devise treatment plans for referred clients and to provide interventions using a range of generic and discipline-specific models appropriate to the service. This includes both short and long-term treatment approaches. To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals/ agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
To work autonomously providing open access assessment and treatment service based within the community. To contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary assessments and treatment. To carry a caseload of families requiring family and systemic psychotherapy. To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of clients. To liaise with other health, social care and education staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients from each service. To carry out clinical work in health and education settings, and clients’ homes to best meet the client's needs.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate/ doctoral level qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy recognised by DOH and AFT.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Generic and discipline-specific mental health assessments and treatments of children and families across a range of ages.
- Formulating and devising treatment plans for a range of presentations. Including both short and long-term treatment approaches.
- Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service
- Contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings and coworking assessments and treatment within clinic-based settings
- Case managing families requiring longer term family and systemic psychotherapy.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- High -level knowledge of the theory and practice of family and systemic psychotherapy.
- Knowledge and Skills of a range of models in the assessment and treatment of child mental health including specific family and systemic theories and evidence base .
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of child mental health
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
Essential
Essential criteria
- Family Therapist with registration
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate/ doctoral level qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy recognised by DOH and AFT.
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria
- Generic and discipline specific mental health assessments and treatments of children and families across a range of ages.
- Formulating and devising treatment plans for a range of presentations. Including both short and long-term treatment approaches.
- Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service
- Contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings and coworking assessments and treatment within clinic-based settings.
- Case managing families requiring longer term family and systemic psychotherapy.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- High -level knowledge of the theory and practice of family and systemic psychotherapy.
- Knowledge and Skills of a range of models in the assessment and treatment of child mental health including specific family and systemic theories and evidence base .
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of child mental health
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carl Turner
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 579 405
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