# Family Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-therapist/a2fedfee-d880-410f-9f65-22b61e851f9e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-therapist/a2fedfee-d880-410f-9f65-22b61e851f9e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Miranda House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Family therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 1.8 sessions per week (2 posts available totalling 1.8 FTE) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-12T17:00:56.516Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Hull/Humber_Teaching_NHS_Foundation_Trust/FamilySytemic_Practitioner/FamilySytemic_Practitioner-v8339950 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8339950?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.humber.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Would you like to work in a friendly and supportive Perinatal Mental Health Team and Maternal Mental Health Service delivering a service across Hull, East Riding, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, York and North Yorks to women experiencing perinatal difficulties and maternal loss? We are looking to recruit 0.6 FTE Family Therapist in the Perinatal Mental Health Team and 1.2 FTE in the Maternal Mental Health Service. Do you like the idea of using your skills in a rewarding and fulfilling way to help women at a crucial point in their lives? We know that providing person centred care and intervention can impact significantly on quality of life for women as well as that of their children and families and this post will add to our current range of psychological interventions. The successful candidate will be expected work alongside our Perinatal Systemic Lead Practitioner in developing and delivering family based interventions across all of the 4 geographical patches we cover. And also work along with our CBT Therapists developing and delivering systemic psychological interventions within the Maternal Mental Health Service. We are open to applicants who are currently undertaking the MSc FT training course with the view of a potential Band 6 to 7 Development Post. ### Main duties of the job - To lead and provide specialist/expert Systemic Psychotherapy for clients and families with a range of severe and complex psychological presentations, as part of a multi-disciplinary approach - To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, teams and professional networks to enable them to work more effectively with clients and their families ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - 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 ### Knowledge **Essential** - 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** - 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** - Ability to effectively chair meetings - Experience of working with a variety of adults 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** - Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical supervision within multi-disciplinary teams - Experience of the application of psychotherapy in different cultural contexts ### Qualifications **Essential** - 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 AFT - Specialist training and experience in a wide range of therapeutic frameworks and interventions with clients and families **Desirable** - Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally ## Documents - [being humber (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2687) - [staff benefits (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2760) - [jd ft mmhs + pmht (pdf, 232.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10664055) - [ps ft mmhs + pmht (pdf, 232.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10664056) - [recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2269) - [application guide & interview tips (pdf, 600.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3021) - [destination humber - allied health professionals (pdf, 11.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2512) ## 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.