Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Systemic Psychotherapist

The closing date is 11 January 2027

Job summary
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, or currently in training.

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 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.

About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £63,665 to £70,887 a year pro rata pa inc
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 277-8399933-CMH-Bromley

Job 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.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Masters Qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy
• Essential: Current UKCP Registration
• Essential: Training in systemic supervision or currently on training

Experience

• Essential: Working with families in a relevant mental health or social welfare setting
• Essential: Working with wide variety of client groups and degrees of severity
• Essential: Care coordination experience and MDT relationships
• Essential: Working with psychosis or personality disorder diagnoses

Skills / Ability

• Essential: Using wide range of systemic theories / interventions / client focus
• Essential: Working with cultural, racial diverse communities

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Adults and Community Services Department, 1st Floor, Beckenham Beacon Hospital, 379 Croydon Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3QL, Bromley, BR6 0JB, United Kingdom
Employer's website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist, Manuel Navarro, m.navarro3@nhs.net, 07766368198

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