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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

1.    To provide highly specialist family therapy with clinical autonomy and to work in ways which are sensitive to the needs of families from a wider range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. To be 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 
•    Multi-agency risk support meetings within a recognised systemic approach
2.    The post holder will participate in assessments of patients referred for treatment ensuring a systemic formulation for all young people, and to work in partnership with colleagues, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency, regarding the family treatment component of each patient’s 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. This will include multi-agency network systemic responses at the thrive level of ‘getting risk support’. 
3.    To communicate complex clinical information in a skilled and sensitive manner including assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients and families to monitor progress during the course of uni - and multi-disciplinary treatment.
4.    To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members to enhance and develop work with families by the team as a whole providing highly specialist systemic knowledge and skills and enabling team members to gain confidence in working within a relational practice framework. 
5.    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 challenges arising, and that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
6.    To assist in the management of the team caseload including the pathway through the service from admission to discharge, including acting on key decision points with colleagues to provide clear understandable contexts for and with clients.
7.    To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies and to actively promote relational network practice using a systemic approach.
8.    To provide appropriate care for clients across the services by providing psycho-education, liaising with other professionals, who are using other approaches including motivational interviewing, and contributing to risk assessment, health promotion and crisis intervention.
9.    To contribute to risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and families, 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. 
10.    To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the client’s 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. 
11.    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.
12.    To act alongside the professional lead and other senior members of the family therapy team within the trust to promote systemic practice contributing to the development of the team as appropriate for a senior leader. This may include teaching, accommodating trainees, supporting other family therapists with supervision, and working to ensure effective governance and standards for family therapy within the trust. This may involve leading and/ or supporting particular short term projects in line with the family therapy strategic goals each year.