CAMHS Systemic Family Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a CAMHS Systemic Family Therapist attached to the Early Intervention Team (Greenwich CAMHS). The post delivers evidence-based systemic family therapy within the community, with school-based work and involvement with children’s centres to support effective early intervention and parenting programmes.

The role includes specialist assessments and therapy across CAMHS, offering guidance to non-psychologist colleagues and working autonomously within professional

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist consultation, advice and training to professionals at all levels working with families in Education, partner agencies and within the service.
• Provide specialist assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature to formulate and implement treatment plans for children/adolescents
• Assess children, adolescents and their families as part of risk assessment
• Consult to parents/carers as part of an overall treatment plan

Job description

CAMHS Systemic Family Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

This post is attached to the Early Intervention Team (Greenwich CAMHS). The team offers a range of evidence based psychological therapies from within the community and much of the work is school based with, as well as children’s centres in delivering and supporting effective early intervention such as parenting programme for a pregnant mother and there partners and a focus on consultation within the schools.

In addition to provide a qualified Psychotherapistservice to CAMHS clients across all sectors of care; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The aim of the post is to effectively assess presenting difficulties of children and families accessing CAMHS, make recommendations for treatment where needed and provide evidence-based interventions within a multi-disciplinary context.

1.To provide specialist consultation, advice, guidance and training to professionals at all levels working with families in Education, partner agencies and within the service. This will include liaison and working with professional networks involved with highly complex, emotive and often conflictual issues such as those involving child protection, deliberate self-harm, violence, trauma, suicide risk, criminal offending behaviour, sexualised behaviour, and mental health problems of parents.

2.To provide a specialist assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a child’s or adolescent’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence. To use routine outcome measures as laid down by the Trust.

3.To assess children, adolescents and their families as part of a risk assessment.

4.To consult to parents/carers (including foster parents) as part of a treatment plan.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

This post is attached to the Early Intervention Team (Greenwich CAMHS). The team offers a range of evidence based psychological therapies from within the community and much of the work is school based with, as well as children’s centres in delivering and supporting effective early intervention such as parenting programme for a pregnant mother and there partners and a focus on consultation within the schools.

In addition to provide a qualified Psychotherapistservice to CAMHS clients across all sectors of care; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The aim of the post is to effectively assess presenting difficulties of children and families accessing CAMHS, make recommendations for treatment where needed and provide evidence-based interventions within a multi-disciplinary context.

• To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based, service to, their families, carers and professional networks.
• To provide specialist consultation and advice regarding diagnoses and treatment to Schools, CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required
• To provide specialist assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS.
• To contribute to the development, implementation and audit of services for families with children presenting to the Service.

This advert closes on Monday 23 Nov 2026