Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist

Are you an experienced family/systemic therapist who wants to have the time and opportunity to offer high quality systemic input in a national specialist service? We are looking to recruit a Family Therapist with experience, passion and flexibility to join our specialist adolescent inpatient services. Family therapy is highly valued; you will work directly with families and young people, and also help to influence the units' culture, values and philosophy.

Our ideal candidate will have the willingness to think creatively, commitment to compassionate care and flexibility to think outside traditional clinical models. Duties include direct clinical work, and work with staff teams through teaching, consultation and supervision. You will be part of the Psychological Therapies Team which also includes Creative Therapists and Psychologists and works alongside Occupational Therapy, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Social Work and Nursing.

As families are from a wide geographical area, the role will involve travelling to see families/video conferencing as well as working in the unit.

Bluebird House provides a 13 bedded Secure Forensic Mental Health Service for young people aged 12 to 18. Bluebird is set on the edge of the New Forest in a tranquil rural setting, but within a few miles of the city of Southampton. Informal enquiries are welcome and visits to the unit are encouraged., To provide highly specialist and generic discipline specific assessments of referred clients, using interview, and other assessment methods as appropriate.

To formulate and devise systemic treatment and management plans for a highly complex client group and to provide systemic family therapy, using a range of generic and discipline-specific specialist psychotherapeutic family therapy interventions appropriate to the service.

To provide specialist family systems advice, guidance and consultation to other NHS professionals and to external agencies. To assist in the formulation and treatment of clients.

The psychological model of care is based on attachment and trauma, and incorporates Non Violence Resistance (NVR), promoting a relational approach to the therapeutic work within the unit. The the family therapist will take a lead on the development and implementation of NVR (training will be provided).

To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of the client.

To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant, trainee, and qualified staff.

Develop, deliver and maintain a multidisciplinary Systemic Family Therapy Service.

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members and inter-agency colleagues.

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.

The transformation will happen in stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

£53,775 to £60,504 a year plus recruitment and retention premia