Job requirements
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Substantial experience in mental health after completing core professional qualification.
- Experience
Substantial post-qualification / accreditation experience of family and systemic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation, and treatment), maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience
A high level of competence in applying family and systemic psychotherapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group served by the post, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy.
- Experience
Experience of offering teaching, training, and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
- Experience
A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
- Experience
Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context.
- Experience
Significant experience of working with the client group served by the team / service.
- Experience
Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
- Experience
A high-level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, as applied to the client group using this service.
- Experience
Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration / accrediting body specified in the appendix.
- Experience
Experience of conducting formal research, audit, or service evaluation in a healthcare setting.
- Experience
Post graduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis as practiced within clinical practice settings.
- Experience
Experience and demonstrated effectiveness in working with the full range of clinical severity served by the service.
- Experience
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy for specific difficult to treat groups served by the service (e.g. complex comorbidity, physical health problems or disability etc).
- Qualifications
A recognised post graduate qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy (or equivalent).
- Qualifications
Registration in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
- Qualifications
A recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions recognised by the Association of Family Therapy (AFT): Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychology, Social Work, Psychiatry, Teaching (with substantial counselling experience), Mental Health Nursing, Arts Therapies, Counselling (BACP accredited) Occupational Therapy or Speech and Language Therapy.
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Evidence of recognised post qualification training in clinical supervision of Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
Job summary
Help Transform the Lives of Children, Young People and Families
Are you a passionate and experienced Family & Systemic Psychotherapist looking to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, young people and their families? Come and join our specialist CAMHS Eating Disorders Service in Basingstoke.
This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a well-established, multidisciplinary team providing specialist assessment and evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing eating disorders and associated mental health difficulties. The successful post holder will play a key role in delivering systemic interventions that place families at the heart of recovery and support.
As a Highly Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapist, you will work as a core member of the Community CAMHS Eating Disorders Service, providing a high-quality, specialist psychological therapy service to children, young people, their families and carers.
You will provide highly specialist systemic assessments, formulations and therapeutic interventions for individuals and families presenting with complex emotional, psychological and mental health needs associated with eating disorders. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute specialist psychological knowledge and systemic perspectives to assessment, treatment planning and service delivery.
Main duties of the job
To carry out specialist psychological therapy assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care, in order to reach a psychological formulation of the client's difficulties.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological therapy treatment and/or management of a client's wellbeing and mental health challenges, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing highly specialist psychological therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see attached job description; please review this thoroughly prior to application.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
- Date posted: 21 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8a
- Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 348-CFS-12700
- Job locations: CAMHS Basingstoke, Bramblys Drive, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 8UN, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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