Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-WSU7394924-A
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Resource Centre
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 gross per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Systemic Family Therapist
Band 8A
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
Please note, NSFT uses tools to screen any applications generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Job overview
8a Family Therapist - Adult Eating Disorders Service
Are you:
Feeling passionate about improving the wellbeing and lives of people with eating disorders?
Seeking to develop specialist skills to assess, formulate and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions for this client group?
Interested in supporting and empowering the wider team?
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) Suffolk Community Adult Eating Disorders Service are looking for a suitably experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with a desire to develop their specialist skills in eating disorders.
We are passionate about service improvement and taking our clinical practice to a level of excellence – and we would like you to be part of this!
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting new job role which will afford you the opportunity to offer specialist systemic input within a team, and help us enhance our clinical support and practice to the community that we serve. You will be a valued part of the multi-disciplinary team working within the county-wide Suffolk Adult Eating Disorders Service with bases in Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.
As the successful candidate you will be directly systemic interventions for individuals, carers and families, as well as providing systemic consultation to the wider care system, including acute hospital trusts and other secondary care mental health services. You will be supported to fulfil this specialist role through training and regular clinical and management supervision. We are eager for you to play a key part in the transformation and development of our service.
You will be skilled in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment, intervention and management, and have the ability to communicate highly complex information in a sensitive and compassionate manner.
Working for our organisation
Working for this organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive. In addition to consolidating our NICE-recommended treatment offer, we also welcome innovative treatment approaches to delivering eating disorder care. We will support you to access relevant specialist training and contribute to treatment evaluation.
Recognising the value of our psychological workforce, you will be part of a psychology-led care group, which is currently offering a competitive recruitment incentive.
Benefits included with this role are:-
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
NHS discounts and many more
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will have experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
You will be skills in use of complex methods of systemic assessment, intervention and management and possess well developed communication skills. You will be working closely with the already established systemic workforce in the service, as well as the senior leadership teams.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
* Previous applicants need not apply *
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession
- Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy
- Eligibility for UKCP registration
- Training in teaching Systematic Psychotherapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by UKCP/AFT guidelines
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in applying systemic theory to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations
- Ability to support development of profession though participation in professional bodies and activities
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stresses of others
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Derya Ozcelik
- Job title
- Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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