Family Therapist

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks a Family Therapist to deliver high-quality clinical interventions within a supportive team. The role emphasizes compassionate care and collaboration, offering opportunities for creativity and professional growth. Join an innovative service dedicated to improving young people's lives through systemic therapy.

Qualifications

• Dual qualifications in Education, Health, Social Work, or Management.
• Recognised qualifications by AFT or equivalent.
• Active registration with UKCP.

Responsibilities

• Provide systemic family therapy services to individuals and their families.
• Involve in training, supervision, and consultation.
• Promote a psychologically informed environment.

Skills

Clinical Interventions

Systemic Family Therapy

Compassionate Care

Education

Post-graduate clinical Diploma/Master's Degree in Systemic Family Therapy

Active registration as a Systemic Psychotherapist

Job description

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Family Therapist

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Job summary

Are you an experienced or a newly qualified family/systemic therapist who wants to provide high quality clinical interventions as part of a friendly, well-established psychological therapies team?

We are looking to recruit a Family Therapist with passion and flexibility to join our specialist adolescent inpatient services. Family therapy is a highly valued provision in the team and wider service. There is strong support from the Team Manager for the successful candidate to utilise their specialist skills and experience to contribute to the team. The successful candidate will be working directly with families and young people alongside another family therapist, and also help to influence the units' culture.

The role will span 2 co-located services; a brand-new adolescent PICU and low secure adolescent service. With the PICU opening in June 2025.

Our ideal candidate will have the willingness to think creatively, commitment to compassionate care and flexibility to think outside traditional clinical models. Duties include direct clinical work, and work with staff teams through providing and or participating in formulation and reflective practice sessions, as well as teaching, consultation, and supervision. A major part of the job role will be to promote the Austen House Psychological Model of Care, which is based around an understanding of attachment and trauma and enhanced psychologically informed nurse-led everyday care.

This is a permanent, part time post.

Main duties of the job

To provide a Systemic Family Therapy service to individuals, their families, and carers, incorporating highly specialist assessment and treatment. The postholder will provide a vital link between a young person's family or carers and the unit. They will also provide advice and consultation on systemic issues to colleagues across the unit and help other staff understand how aspects of family functioning influence a young person. They will provide supervision and management of trainee and qualified staff as required.

Austen House is a co-located new Psychiatric Intensive Care Service for young people and Low Secure hospital with 14 beds which can be used flexibly over the 2 services. The postholder will be involved in ongoing service development, contribute to care models and policies for the unit. The postholder will work alongside other psychological therapy colleagues and a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team. Together with the psychological therapies team, they will promote a psychologically informed environment.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• The Post-holder must possess dual qualifications:
• a core professional qualification within Education, Health, Social Work or Management and
• a post-graduate clinical Diploma/Master's Degree in Systemic Family Therapy from a training institute recognised by the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (AFT) or equivalent (e.g. the equivalence criteria laid down by UKCP for "grandparent" and "APEL" qualification as Family Therapists).
• The Post-holder must possess an active registration as a Systemic Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£53,755 to £60,504 a yearBased of full time hours