Specialist Family Therapist

Description:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Family Therapist to join our Child and Adolescent Inpatient Service at Mill Lodge, York. Mill Lodge is a Tier 4 General Adolescent Unit for children and young people aged 13-18 years old presenting with complexity including mental health difficulties, exploitation, eating difficulties and systemic difficulties. We are a new, developing and dynamic psychological therapies team that are passionate about inclusion, co-production and innovation. The service takes a trauma-informed, attachment and systemic approach to understanding the presentations and needs of young people and their families. Our work is underpinned and informed by a range of evidence based psychological models, including systemic family therapy. This role will also involve supporting and contributing to the development of our new alternative to hospital admission service for children, young people and families presenting with complexity around eating. This is a unique and innovative role for a specialist family therapist to contribute to service development and systems change.

Main duties of the job

You will provide a highly specialist, evidence-based, systemic psychotherapy service to clients and families.

You will be responsible for developing the systemic family therapy practice, and develop and maintain liaison with external mental health teams, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust.

You will also provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding systemic formulations and treatment to CYPMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines. This will be combined with providing support, consultation and advice to the multi-disciplinary in-patient team, young people and families.