Family Therapist

Reference

PRI101308

Location

Priory Hospital Bristol, Heath House Lane, Stapleton, BS16 1EQ

Priory Group Division

Healthcare

Salary

£41,200 - £54,363 per annum

Hours

Part Time or Full Time

Vacancy Type

Permanent - Part Time, Permanent - Full Time

Job Advert Location Description

Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy.

Educated to MSc level in Family Therapies

Minimum part time three days or up to full time

Job Advert Role Description

Priory Hospital Bristol is an elegant 18th century country residence set in beautiful parkland close to the centre of Bristol, less than 5 minutes away from the M32 leading directly onto the M4/M5 motorway. It has 77 beds over seven wards varying from Eating Disorders, Acute Mental Health, Adult Psychiatric Intensive Care, Acquired Brain Injury, Huntington’s and Dementia, along with a growing outpatient therapy service.

Priory Hospital Bristol is looking to recruit a Family Therapist to the Eating Disorder inpatient service and general psychiatry outpatient service onsite. This is a full-time permanent position, which is an exciting opportunity to provide a systemic family therapy service to the patients receiving inpatient care on our Specialist Eating Disorder Unit and outpatient treatment within our Private therapy service.

Job description - Please familiarise yourself with the job description attached.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

• To provide specialist assessments to adults who are receiving treatment on our Eating Disorder ward and referred for therapy within our outpatient service.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic family therapy and psycho-educational interventions for individual patients, carers, families and groups.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose treatment is managed by psychologically-based care plans.  
• The post holder will also offer Outpatient appointments working within our Day Care Therapy Service.

Teaching, training and supervision

• 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.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experienced in both 1:1 and family/group work
• Experienced in working within inpatient mental health services and out-patient mental health services

Desirable

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

For your hard work and dedication to Priory, we will offer you a wide range of 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)

Please note: Priory Healthcare is a smoke free environment.

Division DBS info

Disclosure

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.