# Family and Systemic Psychotherapist - Eating Disorders > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-and-systemic-psychotherapist-eating-disorders/2ea4188a-f4f8-41ee-9edf-8d351cc7f129 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-and-systemic-psychotherapist-eating-disorders/2ea4188a-f4f8-41ee-9edf-8d351cc7f129.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Oxford - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-26T10:01:04.899Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Cowley/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Family_Systemic_Psychotherapist_Eating_Disorders/Family_Systemic_Psychotherapist_Eating_Disorders-v7981777 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7981777?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a compassionate Senior Family Therapist, looking for a new role where you can be autonomous, creative, and a team player? Are you dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children and young people with complex needs? We are looking for a Systemic Family Therapist to join our nationally recognised and expanding Oxfordshire Child & Adolescent Eating Disorder Service. Our well-established service aims to deliver high standards of care to young people and their families, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and participation. We are a friendly and welcoming team looking for practitioners who put young people at the centre of what they do. We value multidisciplinary formulating and working. There is regular reflective space, supervision, and dedicated complex case discussions for the team with a high value placed on developing systemic thinking and working. You will work closely with a senior SFT colleague in the pathway providing extensive opportunities for development through practice and supervision. Training and development is a priority and we offer specialist internal and external training relevant to the job role which includes clinical training in eating disorder specific models, as well as wider clinical related content. Staff in the wider team are interested and proficient in a wide range of therapies and there is a good culture of skill sharing. You'll be based in Oxford, but Oxfordshire CAEDS encompasses the whole of Oxfordshire. ### Main duties of the job As a Band 7 Systemic Family Therapist, you will have the opportunity to support the Family Therapy and Eating Disorder assessment and treatment provision within Oxfordshire CAEDS. This will include:- - Providing Family Based assessment and treatment approaches within the Eating Disorder Service (including contributing to pre and post assessment MDT discussion) - Being a member of a Systemic Family Therapy clinic, with reflecting team - Offering systemic advice and consultation to CAEDS clinicians, other CAMHS clinicians and Multiagency services in relation to systemic issues - Teaching and training opportunities within the CAMHS network ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. ## Job Details Are you a compassionate Senior Family Therapist, looking for a new role where you can be autonomous, creative, and a team player? Are you dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children and young people with complex needs? We are looking for a Systemic Family Therapist to join our nationally recognised and expanding Oxfordshire Child & Adolescent Eating Disorder Service. Our well-established service aims to deliver high standards of care to young people and their families, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and participation. We are a friendly and welcoming team looking for practitioners who put young people at the centre of what they do. We value multidisciplinary formulating and working. There is regular reflective space, supervision, and dedicated complex case discussions for the team with a high value placed on developing systemic thinking and working. You will work closely with a senior SFT colleague in the pathway providing extensive opportunities for development through practice and supervision. Training and development is a priority and we offer specialist internal and external training relevant to the job role which includes clinical training in eating disorder specific models, as well as wider clinical related content. Staff in the wider team are interested and proficient in a wide range of therapies and there is a good culture of skill sharing. You'll be based in Oxford, but Oxfordshire CAEDS encompasses the whole of Oxfordshire. ## Job Description As a Band 7 Systemic Family Therapist, you will have the opportunity to support the Family Therapy and Eating Disorder assessment and treatment provision within Oxfordshire CAEDS. This will include:- Providing Family Based assessment and treatment approaches within the Eating Disorder Service (including contributing to pre and post assessment MDT discussion) Being a member of a Systemic Family Therapy clinic, with reflecting team Offering systemic advice and consultation to CAEDS clinicians, other CAMHS clinicians and Multiagency services in relation to systemic issues Teaching and training opportunities within the CAMHS network ## Responsibilities We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Skills in the use of methods of Systemic Psychotherapy/Family based assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. - High level of relationship and communication skills to work with clients, families and/or professionals where the atmosphere might be highly emotive with clients and families expressing anger and hostility. - Knowledge of and skill in using the variety of approaches and methods within systemic practice (i.e. social constructionist, narrative, solution focused, etc.) as required to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations. - Knowledge of other modalities (i.e. psychoanalytic, medical, behavioural, etc.) sufficient to engage appropriately with colleagues and their work with clients. - Knowledge of ethical practice mindful of issues of power and diversity and to work in a way that is sensitive to clients’ cultural backgrounds **Desirable** - Knowledge of the theory and practice of Family Therapy for Eating Disorders. - Skills in providing systemic/ Family Therapy teaching, training and supervision to other professionals. ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial practice in relevant first profession. - Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. **Desirable** - Some experience of working as a family and systemic psychotherapist within CAMHS - Experience of supervising staff in systemic approaches - Experience of teaching and training Systemic/Family Therapy theory and skills to other professional and non-professional groups ### Qualifications **Essential** - Postgraduate qualification in family/systemic psychotherapy - Registration as a Systemic Psychotherapist with UKCP or equivalent body. **Desirable** - Professional postgraduate qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline or agreed Association of Family Therapy (AFT) equivalent - Previous related academic achievements. ## Documents - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) - [jd&ps family and systemic psychotherapist - eating disorders b7 (pdf, 528.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10264642) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.