Senior Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health institution is seeking a Senior Family and Systemic Psychotherapist for the Children and Young People’s Community Eating Disorder Team. The role involves providing specialist interventions to young people with eating disorders, primarily using Family Based Treatment and Family Therapy. Candidates must have significant experience in family therapy and a master's qualification in family/systemic psychotherapy. This role is integral to a multidisciplinary team's efforts to enhance service delivery and support for young individuals.

Qualifications

• Must have substantial practice experience in the relevant field.
• Experience working with children and young people, parents, and couples.
• Experience of family therapy with clients across the full range of clinical severity.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist systemic interventions to young people with eating disorders.
• Apply Family Based Treatment and other systemic models as appropriate.
• Undertake initial assessments and provide clinical supervision.

Skills

Skills in working with children and families using systemic approaches

Ability to formulate comprehensive assessments and provide effective treatment

Ability to manage complex, changing circumstances and emotional distress

Ability to liaise with and manage complex professional networks

Ability to promote equality and work collaboratively

Education

Masters qualification in family/systemic psychotherapy

Registration as a systemic psychotherapist with AFT and UKCP

Job description

Overview

Senior Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to work with the Children and Young People\'s Community Eating Disorder Team at CNWL. The post supports a multidisciplinary team providing NICE-concordant treatment for young people aged 18 or under with suspected or confirmed eating disorders, delivering systemic and family-based interventions, and contributing to service development and learning within the team.

Main duties

• Hold a complex caseload providing specialist systemic interventions to young people and their families with eating disorders.
• Primarily apply Family Based Treatment (FBT) and Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (FT-AN), with other systemic models as appropriate.
• Undertake initial assessments, provide clinical supervision, and contribute to line management of junior colleagues.
• Lead systemic case discussions and parent groups; role-model high standards of clinical and operational practice within the MDT.
• Support team leads in senior tasks such as service development, cross-service liaison, teaching/training, and service evaluation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: Masters qualification in family/systemic psychotherapy.
• Essential: Registration as a systemic psychotherapist with AFT and UKCP.
• Desirable: Relevant training in delivering family/systemic psychotherapy within the field of eating disorders or complex cases.

Experience

• Essential: Substantial practice experience in the relevant field (or established equivalence).
• Essential: Substantial practice experience of family therapy with clients across the full range of clinical severity.
• Essential: Experience working with children and young people, parents and couples; experience of supervision.
• Desirable: Experience of other treatment approaches; experience of family therapy within eating disorders or other complex client groups; experience running parenting groups; experience of research and audit; experience of policy development.

Knowledge

• Essential: Evidence base in relation to parenting issues; impact of abuse, trauma and adverse experiences on children and families; child development in relation to family and parenting issues; child protection policies and procedures; cross-cultural therapeutic work to engage with diverse client groups.
• Desirable: Knowledge of family therapy in child & adolescent eating disorders (FBT, FT-AN); knowledge of relevant legislation; research/publication in eating disorders or family therapy; postgraduate-level research methodology in relation to parenting issues.

Skills

• Essential: Skills in working with children and families using systemic approaches; ability to formulate comprehensive assessments and provide effective treatment; ability to manage complex, changing circumstances and emotional distress; ability to liaise with and manage complex professional networks; ability to promote equality and work collaboratively.

Other information

Disclosure and Barring Service check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975; a DBS disclosure may be required.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside other applications. Guidance: UK Visas and Immigration and overseas criminal records checks guidance are available in the public domain.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration; see NHS Careers for details.

Employer details

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address: South Kensington & Chelsea Mental Health Centre, and Roxborough Road, Harrow, London, SW10 9NG

Employer website: cnwl.nhs.uk/work