Family & Systemic Psychotherapist - Adult Eating Disorders

Job overview

Do you want to be part of a highly supportive, multi-disciplinary team, who are forwarding thinking and fully support staff development?

The Wiltshire Community Eating Disorder Service (WCEDS) is looking for a part time Family Therapist who is passionate about making a difference to adults who are suffering with an eating disorder.

You will be part of a team of dedicated and experienced multi-disciplinary professionals working with adults with eating disorders.

With a reputation for excellence, our service provides a stepped model of care tailored to the individual’s needs for stabilisation and recovery. We offer a range of programmes and evidence-based treatments to assist with this. We are a friendly, energetic and dynamic team who are proactive and visionary, focusing on excellent patient-centred care.

Within this post, you will provide specialist eating disorder assessment and treatment for adults with eating disorders, in a community setting across Wiltshire and Swindon.

We are working towards a culture where services from across the whole system work together to deliver positive and seamless experiences of care for adults with an eating disorder.

You will require a professional qualification with current UK registration.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist systemic assessment and formulation for inpatients with complex eating disorders and co-occurring mental health difficulties.
• Deliver evidence-based family and systemic psychotherapy interventions to patients, families, carers, couples and wider support networks.
• Offer group supervision sessions to the MDT
• Manage a complex caseload with autonomous clinical decision-making
• Support staff in developing their systemic thinking and practice through teaching, consultation, and supervision.
• Offer highly specialist systemic consultation to MDT colleagues regarding systemic aspects of care, risk, engagement, and recovery

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

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.