We are seeking an experienced and passionate Systemic Family Psychotherapist to join our expanding Partners in Practice (PiP) Team - a dynamic, highly regarded service working at the heart of Hampshire Children's Services.
Following significant new investment, the PiP team is growing to enhance our offer of systemic consultation, specialist training, and evidence based therapeutic interventions for children, young people, and families open to Children's Services.
In this role, you will bring systemic thinking to complex safeguarding and care contexts, offering family therapy, systemic assessments, and reflective practice spaces for social care teams. You will play a key role in embedding relational, strengths based approaches across the wider system.
This is a rare opportunity to influence culture, support multi agency collaboration, and deliver meaningful change for families with some of the most complex needs in the county.
The post holder will:
- Work as an autonomous practitioner within an MDT, providing a quality-driven, highly specialist applied psychology service to young people, their families and carers under the care of the Hampshire CAMHS service.
- Clients will be presenting with severe and complex mental health problems, requiring a range of psychological interventions in line with their needs and goals.
- The postholder will also support psychological practice within the team through consultation, formulation, supervision and training. They will participate in systematic clinical governance, including the development and delivery of clinical care pathways and the provision of supervision to assistant, trainee, and junior psychologists, as well as other staff.
- They will use research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- The postholder will be expected to comment on and propose changes to policy or service development within the psychology service and team as necessary.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
- A recognised post graduate qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy (or equivalent). Registration in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
- A recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions recognised by the Association of Family Therapy (AFT): Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychology, Social Work, Psychiatry, Teaching (with substantial counselling experience), Mental Health Nursing, Arts Therapies, Counselling (BACP accredited) Occupational Therapy or Speech and Language Therapy.
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- Completed an AFT accredited qualifying level training IN OR PRIOR TO 2007
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development. Evidence of post qualification training in clinical supervision
Evidence of recognised post qualification training in clinical supervision of Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
Substantial experience in mental health after completing core professional qualification.- Substantial post-qualification / accreditation experience of family and systemic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation, and treatment), maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
- A high level of competence in applying family and systemic psychotherapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group served by the post, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy.
- Experience of offering teaching, training, and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
- A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
- Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context.
- Significant experience of working with the client group served by the team / service.
- Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
- A high-level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, as applied to the client group using this service.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration / accrediting body specified in the appendix.
- Experience of conducting formal research, audit, or service evaluation in a healthcare setting.
- Post graduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis as practiced within clinical practice settings.
- Experience and demonstrated effectiveness in working with the full range of clinical severity served by the service.
- Experience of the application of Psychological Therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy for specific difficult to treat groups served by the service (e.g. complex comorbidity, physical health problems or disability etc).
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
