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Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
- Skills
Effective inter-personal and communication skills and experience in managing in distressing, risky pressured circumstances
- Skills
Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
- Skills
Good time management skills
- Skills
Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
- Knowledge
Demonstrate the ability to devise, implement and evaluate a wide range of evidence based therapeutic interventions and treatment plans for clients and their families/carers
- Knowledge
Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding
- Knowledge
Skills in providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Knowledge
Ability to recommend and contribute to changes in service delivery and procedures within the team or service context
- Knowledge
Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/care pathways/audit within Adult Mental Health
- Knowledge
Basic IT skills
- Experience
Ability to effectively chair meetings
- Experience
Experience of working with a variety of adults with severe, complex and enduring mental health difficulties and their families
- Experience
Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context
- Experience
Professional networking locally and regionally
- Qualifications
Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding
- Qualifications
Masters level of qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy as recognised by DOH and AFT
- Qualifications
Specialist training and experience in a wide range of therapeutic frameworks and interventions with clients and families
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge
Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts out of own area of work/responsibility
- Knowledge
Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and audits within identified clinical area.
- Knowledge
Working knowledge of relevant IT database systems necessary for recording clinical activity/reports
- Experience
Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical supervision within multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience
Experience of the application of psychotherapy in different cultural contexts
- Qualifications
Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally
Job overview
Would you like to work in a friendly and supportive Perinatal Mental Health Team and Maternal Mental Health Service delivering a service across Hull, East Riding, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, York and North Yorks to women experiencing perinatal difficulties and maternal loss? We are looking to recruit 0.6 FTE Family Therapist in the Perinatal Mental Health Team and 1.2 FTE in the Maternal Mental Health Service.
Do you like the idea of using your skills in a rewarding and fulfilling way to help women at a crucial point in their lives? We know that providing person centred care and intervention can impact significantly on quality of life for women as well as that of their children and families and this post will add to our current range of psychological interventions.
The successful candidate will be expected work alongside our Perinatal Systemic Lead Practitioner in developing and delivering family based interventions across all of the 4 geographical patches we cover. And also work along with our CBT Therapists developing and delivering systemic psychological interventions within the Maternal Mental Health Service.
We are open to applicants who are currently undertaking the MSc FT training course with the view of a potential Band 6 to 7 Development Post.
Main duties of the job
- To lead and provide specialist/expert Systemic Psychotherapy for clients and families with a range of severe and complex psychological presentations, as part of a multi-disciplinary approach
- To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, teams and professional networks to enable them to work more effectively with clients and their families
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
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.
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This advert is for Family Therapist with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust in Hull, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Family therapist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 Pa. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 26 Oct 2026.
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