Family Therapist / Systemic Psychotherapist

Active Care Group; Bridlington; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a senior clinical professional to lead a specialist family and systemic psychotherapy service within CAMHS in Bridlington, UK. You will manage a defined caseload providing highly expert systemic assessments and therapy while contributing to staff training and service development. The role involves working with children and families through complex systems and requires a post-graduate qualification in Systemic and Family Psychotherapy as well as experience in mental health.

Qualifications

• Experience therapeutically working with children, young people, and families in a mental health or social care setting.
• Confidence working systemically with high levels of complexity and risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver a specialist family and systemic psychotherapy service.
• Provide highly specialist systemic assessments, formulations, and interventions.
• Conduct risk assessments and develop safeguarding plans.

Education

Relevant post‑graduate qualification in Systemic and Family Psychotherapy

Registration with UKCP or AFT

Job description

Key aspects of the role include:

• Salary Range: £76,236.77 to £83,790.38
• Providing systemic assessment and family therapy to children, young people, and their families.
• Delivering evidence-based interventions within multi-disciplinary treatment plans.
• Offering systemic consultation and reflective practice across the CAMHS service and wider partner agencies.
• Supporting complex case formulation through a systemic lens to enhance understanding and care planning.
• Contributing to service development, training, and supervision within the CAMHS team.
• Participating in multi-agency meetings to ensure cohesive and integrated care for families.

The role: This is a senior clinical opportunity to lead and deliver a specialist family and systemic psychotherapy service within CAMHS. You will provide highly specialist systemic assessments, formulations and interventions, using approaches such as interviews, family interaction observations, genograms, questionnaires and validated tools including SCORE-15 and RCADS. You will work autonomously within relevant professional frameworks (AFT/UKCP/BPS/HCPC), holding a defined caseload, conducting risk assessments and developing safeguarding plans that prioritise the needs of the young person and their social context. A key part of this role is to provide systemic consultation, clinical supervision and training to colleagues and trainees, supporting the development of family intervention skills across the service. You will also contribute to duty work, triage, initial assessments, information-sharing and outreach to homes and schools. The work includes supporting families experiencing trauma, distress, high emotion or interpersonal conflict, requiring resilience, reflective capacity and sensitive, skilful communication.

Qualification and Experience Requirements:

• Relevant post‑graduate qualification in Systemic and Family Psychotherapy and registration with UKCP, AFT or eligibility for registration.
• Experience therapeutically working with children, young people, and families in a mental health or social care setting.
• Confidence working systemically with high levels of complexity and risk.

Location: Living in Jersey offers the opportunity to be part of a beautiful and accessible island with a close-knit community. You can make a meaningful difference to Islanders' lives on a daily basis while working with a smaller population in high-quality environments. The island setting provides a unique balance of professional challenge, community connection and quality of life.