Family Therapist - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
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Cambridge, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities The post holder will undertake specialist assessment and care planned interventions of adults and families referred to the Adult Eating Disorder Service.

Responsible for the delivery of a full range of family treatments to all patients. These treatments may include the following systemic psychotherapy interventions.

Conjoint family therapy (all family members present in the room at the same time, plus patient and other members of multi-disciplinary team).

Separated family therapy (i.e. parental counselling and individual systemic counselling running in parallel).

Multi-family group therapy The post holder is expected to participate in assessments of patients referred for treatment and to consult to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues regarding the family treatment component of each patients care.

Assessment of family interactions and formulating how these are connected to diagnostic factors will be a key component of the post, influencing the direction of treatment and recommendations for appropriate family interventions.


To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.

To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni
- and multi-disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this. To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of systemic assessment and formulation and treatment outcome, in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To assist in the management of the team caseload.


To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.

To provide appropriate care for clients not engaged in treatment including:

psycho-education, liaising with other professionals, engaging in treatment including using structured approaches such as motivational interviewing, risk assessment, health promotion and crisis intervention.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.

To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, taking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.

Responsible for maintaining video equipment and for training colleagues in the use of this.

As a senior member of the staff team the post-holder is expected to contribute significantly to the resolution of conflicts between staff and the maintenance of a well-functioning multi-disciplinary team.

In common with all Systemic Psychotherapists the post-holder will be responsible for ensuring that they receive regular clinical supervision and continuing professional development, in accordance with United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy/Association of Family Therapy requirements and good standards practice guidelines.

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