Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and passionate Systemic Family Psychotherapist to join our expanding Partners in Practice (PiP) Team -- a dynamic, highly regarded service working at the heart of Hampshire Children's Services.
Following significant new investment, the PiP team is growing to enhance our offer of systemic consultation, specialist training, and evidence based therapeutic interventions for children, young people, and families open to Children's Services.
In this role, you will bring systemic thinking to complex safeguarding and care contexts, offering family therapy, systemic assessments, and reflective practice spaces for social care teams. You will play a key role in embedding relational, strengths based approaches across the wider system.
This is a rare opportunity to influence culture, support multi agency collaboration, and deliver meaningful change for families with some of the most complex needs in the county.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
*Work as an autonomous practitioner within an MDT, providing a quality-driven, highly specialist applied psychology service to young people, their families and carers under the care of the Hampshire CAMHS service.
*Clients will be presenting with severe and complex mental health problems, requiring a range of psychological interventions in line with their needs and goals.
*The postholder will also support psychological practice within the team through consultation, formulation, supervision and training. They will participate in systematic clinical governance, including the development and delivery of clinical care pathways and the provision of supervision to assistant, trainee, and junior psychologists, as well as other staff.
*They will use research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
*The postholder will be expected to comment on and propose changes to policy or service development within the psychology service and team as necessary.
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: 02 June 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8a
- Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: 348-CFS-11466
- Job locations: Cromwell House, 15 Andover Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 7BT, 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.
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This advert is for Systemic Family Psychotherapist - PiP with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 to £64,750 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 14 Jun 2026.
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