Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-164-26-MH-A
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 68 Portland Street
- Town
- Kirkby in Ashfield
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
We’re looking for a passionate and skilled Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join our CAMHS Intellectual Disabilities Team. In this vital role, you’ll support children and young people with intellectual disabilities and work closely with their families to improve communication, strengthen relationships, and help them move forward together.
You’ll bring systemic thinking to our multidisciplinary team, offer specialist therapy, and provide consultation and formulation to colleagues working with complex family situations.
What we’re looking for:
Qualified Family & Systemic Psychotherapist (MSc or equivalent)
Experience working with children, young people, and families
Strong systemic formulation skills and a collaborative, compassionate approach
Why join us?
Play a key role in shaping and enhancing our service
Be part of a supportive, reflective, and forward‑thinking team
Access ongoing CPD, supervision, and development opportunities
Make a real impact for families who need specialist systemic support
If you’re ready to bring your expertise to a team that values your contribution and makes a genuine difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Provide highly specialist systemic and family therapy to children and young people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
Deliver comprehensive systemic assessments, formulations and evidence‑based interventions for complex mental health presentations. Offer consultation, advice and clinical supervision to MDT colleagues and wider agencies.
Participate in multidisciplinary meetings, safeguarding discussions and multi‑agency planning, contributing expert systemic input.
Contribute to service development, audit and research, supporting continuous improvement within CAMHS ID.
Manage a specialist clinical caseload, including risk assessment, care planning and outcome monitoring.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are seeking a Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join our CAMHS Intellectual Disabilities (ID) Team. You will provide highly specialist systemic assessments, formulations and family therapy to children and young people with intellectual disabilities and their families, many of whom present with complex developmental and emotional needs.
Your responsibilities will include delivering evidence‑based systemic interventions, undertaking risk assessment and care planning, managing a specialist caseload, and contributing expert systemic insight to MDT discussions, safeguarding meetings and multi‑agency work. You will also offer consultation, clinical supervision and training to colleagues and partner agencies, supporting a systemic culture across the service.
You will work closely with multidisciplinary CAMHS colleagues, social care, education, and wider health partners to ensure integrated, high‑quality care for young people. The role also involves contributing to service development, audit and research to support ongoing improvement within the CAMHS ID pathway.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.
Person specification
Qualifications - Academic / Craft / Professional
Essential criteria
- • Masters (MSc) qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy or AFT accredited equivalent (usually academic study, assessed clinical training and supervised practice including the full range of models within systemic practice and life span development) – OR WORKING TOWARDS.
- • UKCP registration
Desirable criteria
- • Training in other relevant therapeutic modalities
- • Leadership (qualification/recognised training)
- • Qualification in clinical supervision recognised (by accrediting body)
Training
Essential criteria
- • Trained in delivery of clinical supervision
- • Evidence of continuing professional development
- • To have undertaken statutory child safeguarding training.
Desirable criteria
- • Training specific to the needs of young people with mental health disorders
- • Leadership training/qualification
- • Teaching training/qualification
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post
Values and Behaviour
Essential criteria
- • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: • Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Physical
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work in variety of environments.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Relevant practice in first profession plus clinical experience as above.
- • Experience of working with children, young people who have mental health difficulties/diagnoses and their families.
- • Experience of working with diverse service user groups
- • Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse.
- • Experience of working in a family therapy setting or service and reflecting team approach.
- • Experience of consultation and or training to primary care/ other staff supporting Children and their families
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working across a broad range of care groups including children within the community, developmental difficulties including LD & ASD and or physical health needs
- • Experience of Leadership of teams and clinical staff.
- • Experience of Clinical supervision of qualified and trainee Family Therapists/ Systemic practitioners.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of the theory and practices of specialist family therapies and clinical supervision as practiced within the field of systemic psychotherapy
- • Knowledge of approaches or models of working relevant to CAMHS e.g., attachment models, parenting approaches.
- • Knowledge of guidelines/policy informing best practice within mental health services for children and families.
- • Knowledge of research and models of good practice that inform direct and indirect working
- • Knowledge of evidenced treatments when working with young people with a mental health disorder.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of evidenced treatments when working with young people with a mental health disorder.
- • Ability to exercise autonomous responsibility making clinical judgments in highly complex, challenging and emotive situations interpreting Trust policies and working within professional guidelines.
- • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, interpersonally, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- • Skills in liaison with other agencies and in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- • Broad knowledge of relevant theories and practice in child development and child protection, including relevant legislation in the field of mental health, children and families
- • Developed skills in understanding, processing and resolution of ethical issues
- • Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
- • Physical skills for manipulation in use of video/audio recording equipment/IT
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
- Lia Bealing
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0115 8656235
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