CAMHS Senior Systemic Psychotherapist and Systemic Interventions Lead

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

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 skilledSystemic 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.

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).

Closing Date: 19 July 2026

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