Highly Specialist Systemic Psychotherapist

Job overview

We seek to appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Systemic Psychotherapist (Family Therapist) to join Bromley Adult Community Mental Health Services across different teams, including the Older Adults Team.

You will have a Masters or Doctorate level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy, with post registration systemic psychotherapist experience, and the additional training as a systemic supervisor, approved or in the process of being approved by the AFSP.

You will have UKCP registration and excellent therapeutic skills, be skilled in assessing and managing risk, and be able to be responsive and flexible in working with people across the age range.

You will be support teams and clinicians to embed ways of engaging and working with families.

The role will be based primarily in Beckenham Beacon.

Main duties of the job

• As a Systemic Psychotherapist, you will assess patients' mental health needs and their families, and offer evidence-based interventions to families with specific needs.

• You will liaise with members of the MDT and other teams, services and agencies as part of the ongoing care plan as and when needed.

• You will offer consultation and training to all the adult community mental health teams and offer supervision to our colleagues in the acute service.

• You will also offer live supervision to systemic practitioners and family therapy trainees.

• You will contribute to research and service improvement initiatives related to Adult Mental Health and systemic psychotherapy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide the Bromley Working Age Adult Directorate and the Older People Service with a high quality, evidence based, systemic psychotherapy service to adult community patients, families, carers and professional networks.

• To provide clinical supervision to the Family Consultation in the Borough.

• To provide specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families of patients.

• To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding assessments, diagnoses and treatment to teams, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines.

• To provide specialist consultation to other professionals looking to increase their expertise in systemic psychotherapy.

• To collaborate in the evaluation of the service and contribute to its development and implementation.