Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Family and Systemic Therapist to join our Child and Adolescent Inpatient Service at Mill Lodge, York. Mill Lodge is a Tier 4 General Adolescent Unit for children and young people aged 13-18 years old presenting with complexity including mental health difficulties, exploitation, eating difficulties and systemic difficulties. We are a new, developing and dynamic psychological therapies team that are passionate about inclusion, co-production and innovation. The service takes a trauma-informed, attachment and systemic approach to understanding the presentations and needs of young people and their families. Our work is underpinned and informed by a range of evidence based psychological models, including systemic family therapy. This role will also involve supporting and contributing to the development of our new Alternative to Hospital Admission service, Willow View, for children, young people and families presenting with complexity around eating. This is a unique and innovative role for a specialist family therapist to contribute to service development and systems change.
We are committed to supporting continued professional development, with a number of our team are accessing further accredited training in specialist therapy modalities. We welcome recently qualified applicants who may be interested in a developmental post starting at Band 7 with support and training to progress into a B8a post.
Main duties of the job
You will provide a highly specialist, evidence-based, systemic psychotherapy service to clients and families.
You will be responsible for developing the systemic family therapy practice, and develop and maintain liaison with external mental health teams, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust.
You will also provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding systemic formulations and treatment to CYPMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines. This will be combined with providing support, consultation and advice to the multi-disciplinary in-patient team, young people and families.
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
You will have great interpersonal and communication skills, and be able to establish a professional working relationship with the MDT and clinical support teams, and to build and maintain close links with other key services and agencies. You will be calm and confident around people in distress, and have a reflective and considered approach to problem solving. You will have outstanding skills in assessing complex client systems, appropriate systemic formulation of presenting problems, the engagement of family members in therapeutic work and the conception of interventions to facilitate change in such systems.Your values are essential to this role; we are looking for someone who genuinely wants to make a lasting impact on young people, who insists on doing things with care and diligence and is able to think on their feet. The CYPMHS inpatient unit structure has been newly designed, specifically to enable and encourage progression; your development is vital to the service.
We're looking for either an experienced Family Therapist with significant experience of practice following qualification; but also welcome applications from more recently qualified candidates who may be interested in this as a developmental post, starting at Band 7 with support and training to progress into a B8a post.
You will be a postgraduate in family/systemic therapy with training to MSc or Doctoral level or equivalent as accredited by the Association of Family Therapy, and hold a current UKCP registration.
Please note that we are advertising this role subject to banding.
Informal enquiries and visits are encouraged. Please contact Amy Burn (Clinical Lead) on amy.burn@nhs.net if you are interested in finding out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will have great interpersonal and communication skills, and be able to establish a professional working relationship with the MDT and clinical support teams, and to build and maintain close links with other key services and agencies. You will be calm and confident around people in distress, and have a reflective and considered approach to problem solving. You will have outstanding skills in assessing complex client systems, appropriate systemic formulation of presenting problems, the engagement of family members in therapeutic work and the conception of interventions to facilitate change in such systems.Your values are essential to this role; we are looking for someone who genuinely wants to make a lasting impact on young people, who insists on doing things with care and diligence and is able to think on their feet. The CYPMHS inpatient unit structure has been newly designed, specifically to enable and encourage progression; your development is vital to the service.
We're looking for either an experienced Family Therapist with significant experience of practice following qualification; but also welcome applications from more recently qualified candidates who may be interested in this as a developmental post, starting at Band 7 with support and training to progress into a B8a post.
You will be a postgraduate in family/systemic therapy with training to MSc or Doctoral level or equivalent as accredited by the Association of Family Therapy, and hold a current UKCP registration.
Please note that we are advertising this role subject to banding.
Informal enquiries and visits are encouraged. Please contact Amy Burn (Clinical Lead) on amy.burn@nhs.net if you are interested in finding out more.
Person Specification
Qualifications B7
Essential
- Post-graduate family/systemic therapy training to MSc or higher level as accredited by the Association of Family Therapy. UKCP registration via college of family systemic psychotherapists
Experience B7
Essential
- Experience of Systemic team-working and of collaborating with a range of referred systems experiencing distress across different services, age ranges, and life-cycle transitions.
- Skills in the use of Systemic interviewing to include reflexive processes in assessing, formulating, intervening, and evaluating, towards systems-level change
Skills B7
Essential
- Experience of engaging with multiple people therapeutically, especially the navigation of differing goals for therapy and multiple perspectives about how to get there.
Qualifications B8a
Essential
- Post-graduate family/systemic therapy training to MSc or higher level as accredited by the Association of Family Therapy. UKCP registration via college of family systemic psychotherapists
Experience B8a
Essential
- Significant experience of practice following qualification, including experience of working with children and young people as a qualified systemic psychotherapist/family therapist
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of children and young people and their families with a range of psychological/psychiatric needs and presenting with the full range of clinical severity. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, individually and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Skills 8a
Essential
- Skills in the use of specialist systemic family psychotherapy assessment, intervention and management.
Person Specification
Qualifications B7
Essential
- Post-graduate family/systemic therapy training to MSc or higher level as accredited by the Association of Family Therapy. UKCP registration via college of family systemic psychotherapists
Experience B7
Essential
- Experience of Systemic team-working and of collaborating with a range of referred systems experiencing distress across different services, age ranges, and life-cycle transitions.
- Skills in the use of Systemic interviewing to include reflexive processes in assessing, formulating, intervening, and evaluating, towards systems-level change
Skills B7
Essential
- Experience of engaging with multiple people therapeutically, especially the navigation of differing goals for therapy and multiple perspectives about how to get there.
Qualifications B8a
Essential
- Post-graduate family/systemic therapy training to MSc or higher level as accredited by the Association of Family Therapy. UKCP registration via college of family systemic psychotherapists
Experience B8a
Essential
- Significant experience of practice following qualification, including experience of working with children and young people as a qualified systemic psychotherapist/family therapist
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of children and young people and their families with a range of psychological/psychiatric needs and presenting with the full range of clinical severity. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, individually and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Skills 8a
Essential
- Skills in the use of specialist systemic family psychotherapy assessment, intervention and management.
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).
