CAMHS Senior Systemic Psychotherapist and Systemic Interventions Lead

Job summary
This post is part time, 30 hours per week.

Please note that we are open to considering applications from candidates suitable for a development opportunity. Appointment would be at Band 7, with progression to Band 8a upon successful completion of the required development objectives.

Are you an experienced and passionate Systemic Psychotherapist ready to lead and shape a dynamic pathway within Gloucestershire CAMHS?

We are seeking an innovative and highly skilled Systemic Psychotherapist to provide clinical leadership, service development, and operational oversight for our Systemic Intervention provision within Gloucestershire CAMHS. This is an exciting opportunity to influence service delivery, support workforce development, and ensure high-quality, evidence-based systemic practice for children, young people, and their families. You will join a team of trained Systemic Psychotherapists and NVR Practitioners, as well as team members who are in training.

We will provide supervision and CPD and would encourage and support you to offer placements for trainee systemic and family therapists. You would join the GHC Trust Systemic Community of Practice to connect, share and grow your knowledge.

Main duties of the job

• Provide leadership and clinical governance of the county-wide Family Therapy Clinics, Systemic Consultations and NVR (Non-Violent Resistance) Groups and any future Systemic Interventions you develop with us.
• Deliver specialist systemic assessments and interventions for complex cases 1:1 and as part of the family therapy team including holding a care coordination role when appropriate.
• Offer supervision, consultation, and reflective practice to multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Lead service development and quality improvement initiatives in systemic practice.
• Contribute to workforce planning and pathway performance monitoring.
• Promote systemic thinking across the wider CAMHS service.
• Ensure safe, effective, and outcome-focused care delivery.
• Demonstrate clinical leadership and a commitment to ensuring the "voice" of the child is central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people. you will work closely with senior leadership, operational managers, and clinical leads to ensure the pathway is responsive, accessible, and aligned with local and national priorities.

About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities
See attached Job Description for the full details.

In taking up this role in Gloucestershire CAMHS you will be a valued member of the CAMHS clinical leadership team, working closely with the Professional Lead for Psychological Services and other psychological pathway leads. You will lead with vision the clinical teams that deliver Family Therapy and NVR across our county, sharing the responsibility for ensuring high quality care of the children and families we serve.

We will support you to provide specialist systemic consultation and supervision, as well as working as the Senior Systemic Psychotherapist in the Core CAMHS team, holding a caseload and contributing to assessments and screening of new referrals to the Core team. You will use your highly specialist skills to support complex clinical decision making in your own caseload and to support the CAMHS MDT, bringing systemic understanding to the case discussions.

You will apply your highly effective communication skills to enhance your work with families, colleagues and other leaders. You will act as a containing and reflective presence that supports the teams that you work with; contributing to their psychological safety and effective functioning during challenging times.

You will have a collaboratively developed job plan that recognises both your clinical and leadership roles and the related tasks such as providing training, service development projects, evaluation and audit.

Person Specification

Qualifications
Essential

• Masters level qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy recognised by AFT.
• Additional Professional Qualification as an RMHN, Applied Psychologist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, RLDN, OT, MHSW

Experience
Essential

• Significant post qualification experience and clinical expertise in Systemic Psychotherapy provision
• Demonstrate experience of highly specialist professional consultancy and clinical leadership regarding service delivery of CAMHS practice. This will include experience of service development initiatives or providing a formal clinical leadership role within clinical practice

Desirable

• Experience of delivering NVR Groups within a CAMHS service

Professional Knowledge
Essential

• Highly specialist knowledge and reasoning regarding a range of evidenced-based Systemic interventions, including current best practice related to the range of CAMHS settings.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in developing effective working relationships with team colleagues and multi-agency partners.

Personal Skills
Essential

• Ability to stay calm and effective in emotionally charged situations.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in developing effective working relationships with team colleagues and multi-agency partners

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).