Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CAMHS-8259713-AZ
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Jubilee Health Centre
- Town
- Wallington, Surrey
- Salary
- £63,665 - £70,887 pro rata per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Systemic Family Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Sutton CAMHS are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Systemic Family Psychotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team.
You will provide highly specialist systemic assessment and therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families/carers, working collaboratively with colleagues to develop systemic practice across the service.
The role will include:
- Managing a specialist caseload and coordinating care.
- Providing systemic family therapy and psycho-educational interventions.
- Offering specialist consultation, formulation and advice to CAMHS colleagues.
- Supporting clinical supervision, teaching and training.
- Contributing to service development, audit, research and clinical governance.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with UKCP via the College of Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy, with at least four years' demonstrable practice and significant experience working as a family therapist.
Experience of supervision, teaching, service development, leadership, research or group work would be desirable.
If you are passionate about working therapeutically with children, young people and families and would like to contribute to the development of systemic practice within Sutton CAMHS, we would love to hear from you.
Join us and be part of a supportive, collaborative and forward-thinking CAMHS team.
Working for our organisation
Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy with demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
- Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
- Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care.
- Consolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a family therapist over a minimum of 18 months.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
- Experience of conducting research
- Experience of leading workshops/group
- Experience of delivering Supervision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tom Pursey
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07783892996
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