Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 166-FC-7555093
- Employer
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital
- Town
- Chesterfield
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa
- Closing
- 05/12/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/12/2025
Employer heading
CAMHS Systemic Family Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Systemic Family Therapist to join the North Derbyshire CAMHS service. The post holder will provide systemic family therapy to young people under all areas of community CAMHS but predominantly those under core CAMHS. The post will be based in both Chesterfield and Buxton.
There will be the opportunity to work alongside the lead Systemic Family Therapist and a number of qualified, Systemic Practitioners.
We offer opportunities to support the larger CAMHS team to consider the Systemic aspects of their work, by facilitating systemic consultations, clinical supervision and mentoring practice.
The postholder will have a Masters degree qualified in Family Therapy, UKCP registered and be experienced in working with complex family dynamics & high levels of risk
Main duties of the job
You will be required to work as an autonomous practitioner, responsible for the provision of evidenced based Systemic Family Therapy to children & young people with a wide range of complex mental health difficulties. You will work within a passionate, enthusiastic, compassionate team and will be expected to provide supervision and consultation to colleagues and take part in CPD and pathway development activities as necessary.
Working for our organisation
We believe in investing in our staff, and we hope to give you the opportunity to build on your existing skills, to be yourself, and to thrive in a forward-thinking and dynamic CAMHS Team.
It is an exciting time for our service as we grow and expand our offer. We are lucky enough to have a number of CAMHS services based in the same building, and as a CAMHS Family Therapist, you will liaise closely with them all.
We pride ourselves on our multi-disciplinary approach, and you will become a key member of our specialist team. You will be working in a supportive and friendly environment with professionals from a variety of clinical backgrounds. The service offers a wide range of structured interventions in addition to systemic family therapy, like CBT, DBT, and IPT.
There are opportunities for building up professional networks within the service. We value the diversity of our clinicians and the different skill sets that they bring with them. We offer flexible working and have special leave and staff support policy in place.
The team operates out of bases in Chesterfield and Buxton and you may be required to travel between bases where necessary in order to provide a flexible service to young people and their families.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.
We welcome informal talks, please contact Montse Gomez Presedo, Senior Systemic Family Therapist, our Lead for the Systemic Pathway for more information: [email protected]
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Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- First degree and or professional qualification or equivalent in social work, nursing or psychology or other first qualification as recognised by the Association of Family Therapy (AFT).
- Masters in Family Therapy
- Registration (or pending qualification will be eligible for registration) as a systemic psychotherapist with UKCP
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Association of Family Therapy in UK
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of family and client groups.
- Experience of working across the whole life span, with presenting problems that reflect a full range of clinical severity
- Experience and knowledge of working with young people with mental health problems
- Experience of managing risk in clinical cases
- Evidence of engagement with clinical supervision
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of working with other agencies including education and social care
- Experience in working children, young people and families in a community setting
- Experience of assessment and intervention with clients presenting with Neurodiversity
- Experience of working with children/young people and their families with special educational needs, neurodevelopmental difficulties, learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, and co-morbid mental health difficulties.
- Experience of supervising other clinicians
- Experience of leadership in a team
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Systemic knowledge on the assessment of psychological problems presented to CAMHS.
- Ability to work professionally and cooperatively in multi-disciplinary te
- Systemic approach and knowledge to the formulation of presenting family and system problems that lead the care plan for the work to be carried out with each family
- Ability to provide supervision to other systemic practitioners in junior roles in the team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in multiagency teams like social care and education.
- Experience of teaching on systemic methods, and techniques to multiagency groups
- Ability to use methods to support data analysis of their work, for example Score15.
- Experience of Clinical supervision models that would facilitate a supervisor’s role
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills with families and professionals. Using plain language
- Ability to tolerate and manage highly distressing emotional issues
- Ability to manage and work with organisational stress and to effectively manage the stress of others
- Ability to engage in sustained mental effort involving tasks demanding intense concentration.
Desirable criteria
- Noticing the wider contextual factors in the systems around them.
- Ability to tune into the team and add to the positive energy in the work environment.
- Valid driving licence
Demonstrates our Proud to CARE Values
Essential criteria
- Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Castle
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01246 514412
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