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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Family Therapist, Children and Young People's Gender Service

Warrington Hybrid 5-10 yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 1,491 employees
Family TherapyClinical AssessmentTherapeutic InterventionsChild and Adolescent Mental HealthGender Services

Requirements

Candidates should have strong clinical experience and experience supervising clinical practitioners. They should be committed to safe, high-quality care for children and young people, communicate effectively, be well organised, and work effectively as a senior clinician in a multidisciplinary team.

Job Description

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional clinician with strong clinical experience to be a family therapist in the Children and Young People's Gender Service (North West). We are a Phase 1 Provider of Gender Services provided in partnership by Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

As the family therapist in the service you will lead the family therapy clinic and provide specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families. You will have protected time specifically for family therapy. The role will also include liaison and engagement with a range of partnership agencies to ensure an integrated and coordinate care plan is provided. Experience of providing supervision to clinical practitioners will also be essential to this role.

Successful candidates will have a passion for delivering safe, high quality and effective services to children and young people and will be a strong communicator, committed and well organised, with the ability to work effectively as a senior clinician in a multidisciplinary team.

The main duties for this role are provided in the attached job description

For further details please contact gsnorthwest@alderhey.nhs.uk.

The base for this service is Mandarin Court, Centre Park, Warrington which includes the following benefits:

  • Free parking and free EV charging
  • Short walk from Warrington Bank Quay station
  • Bicycle storage and on site changing facilities

We welcome applicants looking for both full time and part time contracts, with flexible working opportunities available. Some remote working will also be possible in this role.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stephanie Murphy Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: gsnorthwest@alderhey.nhs.uk

Skills

Family TherapyClinical AssessmentTherapeutic InterventionsChild and Adolescent Mental HealthGender ServicesClinical SupervisionMultidisciplinary TeamworkPartnership LiaisonCare CoordinationCommunicationOrganisation

About Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, treating more than 450,000 children and young people every year. It is one of only four stand-alone paediatric trusts in the UK and is staffed by more than 4,000 employees. We offer 20 specialist services including being the designated national centre for head and face surgery and a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease. It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and 400 nursing students each year. Alder Hey hosts the UK Medicines for Children Research Network (MCRN) with a Department of Health grant worth £22m and is also the lead centre for the Cheshire, Merseyside and North Wales MCRN. It leads the field in paediatric pharmacovigilance, being recently awarded the only paediatric NHS programme grant (£2m) for work in this area. In 2015 Alder Hey became Alder Hey in the Park. The new hospital is built in Springfield Park, next door to the old site. The new Alder Hey sits right in the heart of the park, surrounded by green space which can be seen from almost every window.