Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist

Job overview

The post holder will work with inpatients and community patients with type 1 diabetes and disordered eating (T1DE) within the newly established T1DE service. The Aspen Centre is a 15 bed inpatient unit for severe eating disorders and the T1DE service is a nationally funded NHS England service based within the Clinic for Eating Disorders and Diabetes at the Aspen Centre and sits under the Coventry and Warwickshire Eating Disorder Service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder’s work will be divided flexibly between the inpatients and community patients presenting with T1DE depending on need.

The post holder will have extensive experience and specialist skills in working with people with eating disorders. Experience in diabetes is not essential and training will be provided in this area.  The post holder will work in collaboration with other members of the inpatient team and as part of the multidisciplinary T1DE team.

The post may also include providing advice and consultation to colleagues and other professionals, involvement in service planning and development, staff training and research and development if appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a highly specialist systemic psychotherapy service, working autonomously within professional guidelines and service objectives.
• To provide highly specialised systemic interventions drawing from a broad spectrum of systemic models and as part of an agreed package of care, managed within the context of multidisciplinary working.
• To work in collaboration with other members of the inpatient team and as part of the multidisciplinary T1DE team.
• To work with complex and multifaceted clinical problems within an emotionally charged or difficult context
• To contribute to multidisciplinary assessments, care planning, clinical reports and referral to other appropriate agencies / services if necessary.
• To work flexibly between the inpatient unit and the T1DE community pathway as required
• To liaise and work with other members of the Coventry and Warwickshire Eating Disorders Service
• To participate in multidisciplinary meetings, child protection case conferences, reviews, etc. providing professional advice on individual care programme planning and other clinical matters as necessary, and chairing certain meetings if appropriate
• To provide advice, consultancy and, where appropriate, supervision to other practitioners who provide direct intervention in individual cases and with groups of clients