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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
About
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
CAMHS Senior Systemic Psychotherapist and Systemic Interventions Lead
Accepting applications until: 28-May-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 28-May-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Acorn House
- Cyfeiriad
- Horton Road
- Tref
- Gloucester
- Cod post
- GL1 3PX
- Major / Minor Region
- Gloucestershire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (please contact us to discuss)
Salary
- Cyflog
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Please note that we are open to considering applications from candidates suitable for a development opportunity. Appointment would be at Band 7, with progression to Band 8a upon successful completion of the required development objectives.
Are you an experienced and passionate Systemic Psychotherapist ready to lead and shape a dynamic pathway within Gloucestershire CAMHS?
We are seeking an innovative and highly skilled Systemic Psychotherapist to provide clinical leadership, service development, and operational oversight for our Systemic Intervention provision within Gloucestershire CAMHS. This is an exciting opportunity to influence service delivery, support workforce development, and ensure high-quality, evidence-based systemic practice for children, young people, and their families. You will join a team of trained Systemic Psychotherapists and NVR Practitioners, as well as team members who are in training.
We will provide supervision and CPD and would encourage and support you to offer placements for trainee systemic and family therapists. You would join the GHC Trust Systemic Community of Practice to connect, share and grow your knowledge.
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- Provide leadership and clinical governance of the county-wide Family Therapy Clinics, Systemic Consultations and NVR (Non-Violent Resistance) Groups and any future Systemic Interventions you develop with us.
- Deliver specialist systemic assessments and interventions for complex cases 1:1 and as part of the family therapy team including holding a care coordination role when appropriate.
- Offer supervision, consultation, and reflective practice to multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Lead service development and quality improvement initiatives in systemic practice.
- Contribute to workforce planning and pathway performance monitoring.
- Promote systemic thinking across the wider CAMHS service.
- Ensure safe, effective, and outcome-focused care delivery.
- Demonstrate clinical leadership and a commitment to ensuring the "voice" of the child is central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people. you will work closely with senior leadership, operational managers, and clinical leads to ensure the pathway is responsive, accessible, and aligned with local and national priorities.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
See attached Job Description for the full details.
In taking up this role in Gloucestershire CAMHS you will be a valued member of the CAMHS clinical leadership team, working closely with the Professional Lead for Psychological Services and other psychological pathway leads. You will lead with vision the clinical teams that deliver Family Therapy and NVR across our county, sharing the responsibility for ensuring high quality care of the children and families we serve.
We will support you to provide specialist systemic consultation and supervision, as well as working as the Senior Systemic Psychotherapist in the Core CAMHS team, holding a caseload and contributing to assessments and screening of new referrals to the Core team. You will use your highly specialist skills to support complex clinical decision making in your own caseload and to support the CAMHS MDT, bringing systemic understanding to the case discussions.
You will apply your highly effective communication skills to enhance your work with families, colleagues and other leaders. You will act as a containing and reflective presence that supports the teams that you work with; contributing to their psychological safety and effective functioning during challenging times.
You will have a collaboratively developed job plan that recognises both your clinical and leadership roles and the related tasks such as providing training, service development projects, evaluation and audit.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Masters level qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy recognised by AFT.
- Additional Professional Qualification as an RMHN, Applied Psychologist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, RLDN, OT, MHSW
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Significant post qualification experience and clinical expertise in Systemic Psychotherapy provision
- Demonstrate experience of highly specialist professional consultancy and clinical leadership regarding service delivery of CAMHS practice. This will include experience of service development initiatives or providing a formal clinical leadership role within clinical practice
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of delivering NVR Groups within a CAMHS service
Professional Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Highly specialist knowledge and reasoning regarding a range of evidenced-based Systemic interventions, including current best practice related to the range of CAMHS settings.
- Demonstrate leadership skills in developing effective working relationships with team colleagues and multi-agency partners.
Personal Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to stay calm and effective in emotionally charged situations.
- Demonstrate leadership skills in developing effective working relationships with team colleagues and multi-agency partners
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Andie Collins
- Teitl y swydd
- CAMHS Lead for Psychological Services
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0300 421 4899
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Olivia Banfield Operational lead
olivia,[email protected]
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