Job summary
Are you an experienced and passionate Family Therapist ready to lead and shape a dynamic pathway within Gloucestershire CAMHS?
We are seeking an innovative and highly skilled Systemic Interventions Lead to provide clinical leadership, service development, and operational oversight for our Systemic Psychotherapy provision within Gloucestershire CAMHS. This is an exciting opportunity to influence service delivery, support workforce development, and ensure high-quality, evidence-based systemic practice for children, young people, and their families
Main duties of the job
- Provide leadership and clinical governance of the county-wide Family Therapy Clinics, Systemic Consultations and NVR (Non-Violent Resistance) Groups and any future Systemic Interventions you develop with us.
- Deliver highly specialist systemic psychotherapy interventions, consultations, and supervision.
- Deliver specialist systemic assessments and interventions for complex cases 1:1 and as part of the family therapy team including holding a care coordination role when appropriate.
- Offer supervision, consultation, and reflective practice to multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Lead service development and quality improvement initiatives in systemic practice.
- Contribute to workforce planning and pathway performance monitoring.
- Promote systemic thinking across the wider CAMHS service.
Ensure safe, effective, and outcome-focused care delivery.
- Demonstrate clinical leadership and a commitment to ensuring the "voice" of the child is central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people. you will work closely with senior leadership, operational managers, and clinical leads to ensure the pathway is responsive, accessible, and aligned with local and national priorities.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job description
Job responsibilities
looking for a motivated and compassionate leader who:
Masters level qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy recognised by AFT.
Has substantial post-qualification experience working within CAMHS
- Demonstrates strong leadership, supervision, and service development experience
- Has experience managing complex clinical safety
- Is confident working across multidisciplinary teams
- Is committed to inclusive, culturally responsive practice
- Is experienced in service transformation, pathway redesign, or leading quality improvement projects
Job description
Job responsibilities
looking for a motivated and compassionate leader who:
Masters level qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy recognised by AFT.
Has substantial post-qualification experience working within CAMHS
- Demonstrates strong leadership, supervision, and service development experience
- Has experience managing complex clinical safety
- Is confident working across multidisciplinary teams
- Is committed to inclusive, culturally responsive practice
- Is experienced in service transformation, pathway redesign, or leading quality improvement projects
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy recognised by AFT.
- Additional Professional Qualification as an RMHN Applied Psychological Professional, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, RLDN, OT, MHSW
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience and clinical expertise in Systemic Psychotherapy provision
- Demonstrate experience of highly specialist professional consultancy and clinical leadership regarding service delivery of CAMHS practice. This will include experience of service development initiatives or providing a formal clinical leadership role within clinical practice
Desirable
- Experience of delivering NVR Groups within a CAMHS service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy recognised by AFT.
- Additional Professional Qualification as an RMHN Applied Psychological Professional, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, RLDN, OT, MHSW
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience and clinical expertise in Systemic Psychotherapy provision
- Demonstrate experience of highly specialist professional consultancy and clinical leadership regarding service delivery of CAMHS practice. This will include experience of service development initiatives or providing a formal clinical leadership role within clinical practice
Desirable
- Experience of delivering NVR Groups within a CAMHS service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
