Family Therapist

Job summary

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

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification