Job Title: Family Therapist
Location: Birmingham
Type: Permanent
Shift Pattern: Full time
Salary: £44,892 - £50,470 per annum (depending on experience)
Sanctuary Personnel is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our client's dynamic team as a Family Therapist on a permanent full-time basis.
About the Role:
As a family therapist, you will play a crucial role in providing systemic-oriented therapy to patients and their families. Your responsibilities will include liaising with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and contributing to clinical assessment and treatment.
Principle Duties:
- Undertake therapeutic work with patients and their families, aligned with the unit's treatment philosophy. This includes working with inpatients, outpatients, and day patients.
- Maintain effective clinical records and casework notes in accordance with policy developments.
- Work as a member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), participating in clinical team meetings and other departmental meetings as necessary.
- Participate in relevant clinical audit projects.
- Attend team meetings to enhance team cooperation and performance.
- Collaborate with various other disciplines.
- Apply systemic theory to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups, and organisations, with cultural sensitivity.
- Demonstrate knowledge of other therapeutic modalities and use a variety of approaches within systemic practice.
Skills & Requirements:
Education:
- Qualification in a relevant mental health/social welfare profession such as Social Work, Clinical Psychology, Nursing, or Counselling
- Fully qualified in Family & Systemic Psychotherapy to Masters level or AFT agreed equivalent
- UKCP Registered
Skills & Knowledge:
- Highly specialist skills in systemic assessment and therapy of individuals, couples, and families, often requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Advanced clinical skills
- Ability to apply theory to practice with various groups and organisations
- Capability to provide services in complex community environments to meet the needs of clients and families
- Multi-tasking, prioritisation, and flexible working skills
- Competence in communicating distressing and unwelcome information to children, adolescents, and their families
- Sensitivity in handling stressful situations
- Experience in delivering interventions for eating disorders
- Proficiency in delivering systemic therapy to families with high levels of risk and complexity
- Knowledge and experience in managing safeguarding issues and risks
- Experience in working within a complex multi-agency network
- Significant experience working with children, young people, and families in emotional crisis
- Expertise in risk assessment and risk management
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays, increasing with length of service
- Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
- Paid emergency leave
- Professional development opportunities
- Contributory pension scheme with Royal London
- Enhanced Private Medical Insurance with BUPA, including private GP services, free screening, and inclusion of pre-existing conditions
- Dental cover
- Employee recognition schemes
- Eye care scheme with Specsavers
- Online benefits portal with high street and online shopping discounts
- Winter flu jabs
- EAP assistance on a range of topics and concerns
If you are a qualified and dedicated family therapist looking to make a difference, we encourage you to apply now through Sanctuary Personnel for this rewarding position.
