Job summary
- Main area
- Family Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term for 12 months due to Pilot funding for post)
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-7281950-MH
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Aspen Centre
- Town
- Warwick
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/07/2025
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
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PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
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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.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support group
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent in a professional field such as Social Work, Nursing or Clinical Psychology qualification
- Successfully completed an AFT-accredited qualifying masters level course in systemic psychotherapy or who have met the equivalent criteria as laid down by the UKCP for ‘grandparent’ and ‘APEL’ qualification as systemic psychotherapists
- Graduate-level qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and extensive post-qualification practice.
- Maintenance of UK Council for Psychotherapy registration by attendance at short or long training courses to meet continuing professional development requirements.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive practice in relevant first profession
- Considerable experience of working with families in child and adolescent mental health services or equivalent experience.
- Assessed experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Other
Essential criteria
- Must hold a current driving licence and have independent means of transport.
- Must be willing to travel between Trust sites as required.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Hannah Andrews
- Job title
- Head of Service - Eating Disorder Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02476 232940
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