Job summary
An exciting job opportunity has arisen within LYPFT to expand the Systemic provision of the Leeds Family Therapy Service and also the CONNECT: West Yorkshire Adult Eating Disorder Service. The role will be split between the two services. In the Family Therapy Service, the successful applicant would be joining the passionate team of Family Therapists offering creative Systemic Therapy as a clinic team to clients from a range of adult Mental Health services, alongside supervision, training, and consultation. In the CONNECT WY Adult Eating service, the role will involve working therapeutically with couples and families during the inpatient stay of people using this service at the Newsam Centre, as well as exciting reflective practice opportunities.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and supportive new team member who is interested in working collaboratively towards the development of our high quality family therapy provision, and contributing to the Systemic innovation within a range of LYPFT services. We are a small, committed team of passionate therapists looking to expand our current offer and take advantage of the opportunities within the transformation of adult services.
About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Leeds Family Therapy Service (LFTS) offers team based therapeutic work in family therapy clinics, both in person and remotely. We also offer the training and supervision of more family inclusive practice across other teams including early network meetings for clients and their important others from a range of adult mental health services. The new post-holder will lead their own therapeutic work, as well as working as a reflective team member in the team. Post-holders will be able to contribute to wider MDT working as appropriate, and support the learning of training professionals, such as trainee family therapists and medical psychotherapy trainees. The clinical work comes from a variety of services and as such we work with a range of complex, diverse and varied presentations and difficulties within families and/ or peoples preferred support networks.
The new post-holder will also work into CONNECT: WY Eating Disorder Service, and should have an interest in the field of adult eating difficulties. Some experience of working Systemically in an inpatient setting would be a significant advantage. The clinical work in this setting will focus on providing assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions to individuals and their families during their inpatient stay and planning towards discharge back to the community. Close working with the multi-disciplinary team including other psychological therapists will be a key feature of this role, as well as supporting the team to think Systemically in a range of different forums. This work often involves working with clinical complexity, risk, and safeguarding issues.
The people using our services can be courageous and passionate, and also vulnerable and marginalised for multiple reasons. Creating a safe and non-judgemental environment where family therapy is possible and can support distressed people with high levels of conflict, is important. Applicants need to be able to accept, connect, and understand the ways that high levels of distress might be communicated, and respond appropriately to complex, challenging, and emotionally sensitive information across a range of presenting difficulties. The work we do can be demanding and is as rewarding as it is humbling. We support people to make the changes they want to make in their lives to work towards their preferred relationships and preferred futures. The new post holder will be required to work across a full range of ages, abilities, and cultures, and to communicate with the different needs of families effectively. The roles involve being able to work as part of a family therapy team as well as working autonomously with families. Applicants will be expected to have experience of being clinically responsible for families who are engaged with systemic family therapy and of managing their own caseload. Complexity and risk are an important part of the work across each role. Being able to identify child and adult safeguarding concerns and respond to vulnerability within the context of a clinical family therapy setting, seeking appropriate support and supervision will be necessary. Applicants will need to be able to work creatively and collaboratively to develop Systemic working in contexts whose primary focus is individual care.
The inpatient part of the role involves providing direct psychological interventions to individuals and their families or support networks during their inpatient stay at the Newsam Centre as well as co-working with colleagues in the CONNECT community team. This involves advising on the management of complex presentations of mental health difficulties in the inpatient period, including the development of Systemically-informed formulations pertaining to the understanding of the relationship with food and eating breaking down and the impact on themselves and their meaningful others. The role involves close working with colleagues with multi-disciplinary backgrounds and providing input to various forums within the inpatient service (such as formulation meetings, care plan reviews, and multi-agency meetings).
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Leeds Family Therapy Service (LFTS) offers team based therapeutic work in family therapy clinics, both in person and remotely. We also offer the training and supervision of more family inclusive practice across other teams including early network meetings for clients and their important others from a range of adult mental health services. The new post-holder will lead their own therapeutic work, as well as working as a reflective team member in the team. Post-holders will be able to contribute to wider MDT working as appropriate, and support the learning of training professionals, such as trainee family therapists and medical psychotherapy trainees. The clinical work comes from a variety of services and as such we work with a range of complex, diverse and varied presentations and difficulties within families and/ or peoples preferred support networks.
The new post-holder will also work into CONNECT: WY Eating Disorder Service, and should have an interest in the field of adult eating difficulties. Some experience of working Systemically in an inpatient setting would be a significant advantage. The clinical work in this setting will focus on providing assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions to individuals and their families during their inpatient stay and planning towards discharge back to the community. Close working with the multi-disciplinary team including other psychological therapists will be a key feature of this role, as well as supporting the team to think Systemically in a range of different forums. This work often involves working with clinical complexity, risk, and safeguarding issues.
The people using our services can be courageous and passionate, and also vulnerable and marginalised for multiple reasons. Creating a safe and non-judgemental environment where family therapy is possible and can support distressed people with high levels of conflict, is important. Applicants need to be able to accept, connect, and understand the ways that high levels of distress might be communicated, and respond appropriately to complex, challenging, and emotionally sensitive information across a range of presenting difficulties. The work we do can be demanding and is as rewarding as it is humbling. We support people to make the changes they want to make in their lives to work towards their preferred relationships and preferred futures. The new post holder will be required to work across a full range of ages, abilities, and cultures, and to communicate with the different needs of families effectively. The roles involve being able to work as part of a family therapy team as well as working autonomously with families. Applicants will be expected to have experience of being clinically responsible for families who are engaged with systemic family therapy and of managing their own caseload. Complexity and risk are an important part of the work across each role. Being able to identify child and adult safeguarding concerns and respond to vulnerability within the context of a clinical family therapy setting, seeking appropriate support and supervision will be necessary. Applicants will need to be able to work creatively and collaboratively to develop Systemic working in contexts whose primary focus is individual care.
The inpatient part of the role involves providing direct psychological interventions to individuals and their families or support networks during their inpatient stay at the Newsam Centre as well as co-working with colleagues in the CONNECT community team. This involves advising on the management of complex presentations of mental health difficulties in the inpatient period, including the development of Systemically-informed formulations pertaining to the understanding of the relationship with food and eating breaking down and the impact on themselves and their meaningful others. The role involves close working with colleagues with multi-disciplinary backgrounds and providing input to various forums within the inpatient service (such as formulation meetings, care plan reviews, and multi-agency meetings).
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- 1.Has professional qualification (ie nursing, social work, counselling, occupational therapy, clinical psychology) OR Has a first degree in a field relevant to mental health
- 2.Has completed systemic family therapy training at Masters level on a training programme recognised by the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (AFT
Registration
Essential
- 3.Is registered with UKCP through AFT as a specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- 1.Has professional qualification (ie nursing, social work, counselling, occupational therapy, clinical psychology) OR Has a first degree in a field relevant to mental health
- 2.Has completed systemic family therapy training at Masters level on a training programme recognised by the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (AFT
Registration
Essential
- 3.Is registered with UKCP through AFT as a specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
