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Job summary

Main area
Family/Sytemic Practitioner
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (flexibility in hours will be required)
Job ref
338-7859971-26
Employer
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Inspire
Town
Hull
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 Pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/04/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust logo

Family Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

Join us as a Family Therapist at Inspire our new Children & Young People’s Intensive Mental Health Day Service, launching Spring 2026.

Inspire brings together CAMHS inpatient, day treatment and community intensive support to support a truly family-focused, trauma-informed alternative to hospital admission.

Staff will work flexibly across inpatient, day service and community pathways, delivering trauma-informed  interventions with young people, parents and carers.  Using AMBIT’s mentalisation-based, team strengthening approach, you will help co-ordinate complex multi-agency networks, build trust, and embed sustainable skills within families and partners.

Our pathway provides 12 weeks of intensive day service intervention followed by 9 months of community support, , reducing relapse and keeping young people safely at home.

If you are an innovative, reflective and forward-thinking clinician who wants to shape a new service from the ground up, Inspire would love to hear from you.

 

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the Inspire team, you will deliver trauma‑informed systemic and family therapy across our inpatient, day service and community pathways. You will contribute to shared formulations and provide flexible, evidence‑based interventions that strengthen relationships, reduce risk and promote sustainable change. Working collaboratively with colleagues and multi‑agency partners, you will help coordinate care, support complex networks and build the capacity of families to maintain progress at home. You will offer specialist consultation, participate in reflective practice and contribute to the ongoing development of this new, innovative intensive mental health service.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding
  • Masters level of qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy as recognised by DOH and AFSP
  • Specialist training and experience in a wide range of therapeutic frameworks and interventions with clients and families
Desirable criteria
  • Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate the ability to devise, implement and evaluate a wide range of evidence based therapeutic interventions and treatment plans for clients and their families/carers
  • Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding
  • Skills in providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Ability to recommend and contribute to changes in service delivery and procedures within the team or service context
  • Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/care pathways/audit within Adult Mental Health
  • Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts out of own area of work/responsibility
  • Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and audits within identified clinical area.
  • Working knowledge of relevant IT database systems necessary for recording clinical activity/reports

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Ability to effectively chair meetings
  • Experience of working with a variety of children with severe, complex and enduring mental health difficulties and their families
  • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context
  • Professional networking locally and regionally
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical supervision within multi-disciplinary teams
  • Experience of the application of psychotherapy in different cultural contexts

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
  • Effective inter-personal and communication skills and experience in managing in distressing, risky pressured circumstances
  • Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
  • Good time management skills
  • Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Karen Warwick
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01482 336837
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