Job summary Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a passionate and experienced Family & Systemic Psychotherapist to join Bexley Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). This role offers an exciting opportunity to provide high-quality, evidence-based systemic psychotherapy to children, young people (0-17 years), their families, and professional networks. The post focuses on working with complex mental health needs, including young people at risk of self-harm or inpatient admission, neurodivergent individuals, and those in care or adoptive placements. You will lead an energetic, enthusiastic team of family therapists, trainees, and encouraging other disciplines to join family therapy clinics. You will also be involved in delivering training to other disciplines as well as being part of the monthly Tri Borough family therapy meetings. The successful candidate will be part of a well-established and supportive multidisciplinary team, working alongside systemic colleagues in service-wide intervention clinics. There will also be opportunities for professional development through clinical supervision, case formulation discussions, and quality improvement projects. In this role, you will provide consultation, supervision, and guidance to professionals within CAMHS and partner agencies while contributing to service development and adherence to THRIVE principles. Main duties of the job To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based systemic psychotherapy service to children, their families, carers and professional networks in keeping with CYP-IAPT principles. To provide highly specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS. To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required. To provide supervision to qualified systemic psychotherapists and trainee systemic psychotherapists at Masters or Doctorate degree level. To propose and implement policy changes and contribute to the development, implementation and audit of services for families with children presenting highly challenging behaviours. To ensure high quality supervision and leadership with particular attention to clinical standards, risk management and governance. To advise the team on all matters relating to the Family Therapy discipline and its promotion. About us 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: We're Kind We're Fair We Listen We Care Date posted 13 February 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 8b Salary £67,950 to £78,028 a year pa inc Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number 277-6982220-CYP Job locations Park Crescent Children and Young People Services Park Crescent Erith DA8 3EE Job description Job responsibilities To provide a highly specialist systemic assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a childs or adolescents mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence. To assess complex children, adolescents and their families as part of a risk assessment. To consult to parents/carers (including foster parents) as part of a treatment plan. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children with learning difficulties, and children who are on the Child Protection Plan, and parents with mental health difficulties. Competence is required in undertaking systemic therapy with families through the use of an interpreter where families do not yet have sufficient understanding of the English language. To contribute as a senior clinician to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the development of systemic professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. To advise both service and professional management on all aspects of the service where systemic and/or organisational matters need addressing. To manage the workloads of trainee systemic psychotherapists, within the framework of team policies and procedures. Job description Job responsibilities To provide a highly specialist systemic assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a childs or adolescents mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence. To assess complex children, adolescents and their families as part of a risk assessment. To consult to parents/carers (including foster parents) as part of a treatment plan. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children with learning difficulties, and children who are on the Child Protection Plan, and parents with mental health difficulties. Competence is required in undertaking systemic therapy with families through the use of an interpreter where families do not yet have sufficient understanding of the English language. To contribute as a senior clinician to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the development of systemic professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. To advise both service and professional management on all aspects of the service where systemic and/or organisational matters need addressing. To manage the workloads of trainee systemic psychotherapists, within the framework of team policies and procedures. Person Specification Essential Essential Masters or Doctorate level qualification in psychotherapy Clinical Supervision Training 4 years minimum experience of working with families in MDT Two years at highly specialist level Experience of risk assessment and risk management Staff management Desirable Being able to provide training to others in the MDT Essential Essential UKCP Registration Essential Essential 4 years experience working with families in mental health and social care context Person Specification Essential Essential Masters or Doctorate level qualification in psychotherapy Clinical Supervision Training 4 years minimum experience of working with families in MDT Two years at highly specialist level Experience of risk assessment and risk management Staff management Desirable Being able to provide training to others in the MDT Essential Essential UKCP Registration Essential Essential 4 years experience working with families in mental health and social care context 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Address Park Crescent Children and Young People Services Park Crescent Erith DA8 3EE Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)