Family Therapist
| Posting date: | 02 June 2025 |
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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: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | St Helens, WA9 3DE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9350-25-0743 |
Summary
Qualifications Essential criteria Post-graduate/ doctoral level qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy recognised by DOH and AFT. Knowledge & Experience Essential criteria Generic and discipline-specific mental health assessments and treatments of children and families across a range of ages. Formulating and devising treatment plans for a range of presentations. Including both short and long-term treatment approaches. Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service Contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings and coworking assessments and treatment within clinic-based settings Case managing families requiring longer term family and systemic psychotherapy. Values Essential criteria Continuous Improvement Accountability Respectfulness Enthusiasm Support High professional standards Responsive to service users Engaging leadership style Strong customer service belief Transparency and honesty Discreet Change oriented Skills Essential criteria High -level knowledge of the theory and practice of family and systemic psychotherapy. Knowledge and Skills of a range of models in the assessment and treatment of child mental health including specific family and systemic theories and evidence base . Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of child mental health Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice Essential Essential criteria Family Therapist with registration