Family Therapist
Bristol  
Up to £52,000 + benefits 
Permanent Full Time
Days

Meridian Business Support has an exciting opportunity for a Family Therapist to join our clients Eating Disorder Unit in Bristol, this is an inpatient service and general psychiatry outpatient service.
 
Duties include

Providing specialist systemic assessment & intervention for the patients and their families.
Participating in assessment, care planning and facilitate psycho-educational and parent support groups.
Offer advice and consultation on the psychological care of patients and their families to colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures
Attend or contribute to ward rounds, CPAs, MDT assessments, team formulations and care planning.
Offer systemic family therapy to carers and patients using a range of systemic interventions.
Offer systemic consultations across the MDT and contribute to thinking about patients and their families from a systemic psychotherapy perspective.
Run reflective groups to develop systemic thinking across staff groups.
To work closely with relevant other professionals as appropriate.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management of patients.
The post holder will also offer Outpatient appointments working within our Day Care Therapy Service.
To receive regular clinical supervision from a senior family therapist and where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues
To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patients across the Eating Disorder service and Private Outpatient service. 
Requirements
 
Essential

Educated to MSc level in Family Therapies
Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy.
Experienced in both 1:1 and family/group work
Experienced in working within inpatient mental health services and out-patient mental health servicesDesirable

Previous experience within Eating Disorders
Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.
Leadership Training 
Benefits

25 days annual leave (increasing to 27 days after 5 years of service and 30 days after 10 years service)
Birthday Leave
Enhanced maternity pay
Contributory pension scheme
Opportunities to develop and train in a wide variety of care settings
Support and training from the beginning of your career
Flexible working
Supplemented meals
Access to Employee Assistant programme and other wellness programmes
Employee benefits scheme (e.g. discounted shopping vouchers, interest free Apple Products loan scheme) 

If you are interested and would like more information regarding the role, please contact Nikki Stephenson on (phone number removed)

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy