Therapy Lead (Psychologist or Family/Systemic Psychotherapist)
| Posting date: | 13 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 September 2024 |
| Location: | Radlett, WD7 9HQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9367-24-1358 |
Summary
To be responsible for the development and co-ordination of the therapy timetable of psychological/ systemic and other therapy services within the Intensive Day Service, including some line management supervisionTo represent psychological/ systemic therapists within the CYP-ED MDT and wider HPFT services.To support the CYP-ED Intensive Day Service MDT as necessary as a senior member of CYP-ED Intensive Day Service multi-disciplinary team and provide specialist assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their families and carers to a high level of expertise and based upon sound psychological/systemic principles and techniques.To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology/ family and systemic psychotherapy service for children, young people and their families in relation to eating disorders and co-morbid diagnoses within a CPA model.To offer highly specialised advice and consultation with regard to psychological care of young people and their families/carers to non-psychologist/ systemic MDT colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non-professional carers. To be responsible for the continued development of the Specialist Psychology/ Family and Systemic Psychotherapy resources within the CYP-ED Intensive Day Service as agreed with the Service Manager and Consultant Psychologist/ Consultant Family & Systemic Psychotherapist.To provide clinical and professional supervision to less experienced Practitioner Psychologists/ Family & Systemic Psychotherapists, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/ Trainee Family & Systemic Psychotherapists within the CYP-ED Intensive Day Service as agreed with the operational manager and Professional/Consultant Leads.To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.All staff should comply with the Trusts Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Codes of Conduct and Equality and Diversity. For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.