Lead Family Therapist

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Burnley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in England seeks an experienced Lead Family Therapist to join their expanding Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services. The role involves providing specialist support and acting as a supervisor within a multi-disciplinary team. Candidates must hold a relevant qualification and demonstrate substantial experience working with children and families. This opportunity promotes a flexible working environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified Systemic Family Therapist registered with UKCP.
• Consolidated experience of psychological assessment and treatment.
• Active UKCP registration required.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services.
• Act as a clinical supervisor to junior staff.
• Deliver family and systemic supervision.

Skills

Experience of working with children and young people

Ability to act as a clinical supervisor

Knowledge and skills in risk management

Ability to efficiently manage a case load

Skills in complex methods of assessment

Education

Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with UKCP

Evidence of continuing professional development

Job description

Go back Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Family Therapist

The closing date is 11 November 2025

Are you an enthusiastic, experienced systemic family therapist with a passion for providing and developing quality specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services for young people? We want you to join an expanding service recognised by the Care Quality Commission as outstanding.

In CYP MH East Lancashire (Child and Young People Mental Health East Lancashire) We have well established Consultant-led teams providing specialist mental health services across East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen. This is an exciting time to join our team as a Lead family therapist as we build on our existing track record and develop our range of services in line with a regional transformation programme modelled on Thrive.

Main duties of the job

This role is open to a qualified Systemic Family Therapist with a qualification as Systemic Family Therapist registered with UKCP.

• Experience of working with children and young people
• Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
• The ability to act as a clinical supervisor to Family Therapist, trainees and colleagues
• The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
• The ability to efficiently manage a case load
• Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care. The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area. Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview. For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role

Person Specification

Education

• Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy, with demonstrable practice.
• Active UKCP registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Knowledge

• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing appropriate to a variety of audiences.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Experience

• Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, young people and their families/carers.
• Consolidated experience of working with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of delivering family and systemic supervision

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.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust