Job summary
Are you a passionate Family Therapist looking to make a lasting difference to the lives of children, young people, and their families? CAMHS West is looking for an experienced and compassionate Family Therapist to join our welcoming multidisciplinary team. This is a fantastic opportunity to use your systemic expertise to support children and young people facing complex emotional, psychological, and mental health challenges, while helping families build resilience, understanding, and positive change. In this rewarding role, you'll work closely with young people, parents, carers, and partner agencies to deliver specialist family therapy interventions that promote recovery and improve outcomes. You'll be part of a collaborative team that values professional growth, reflective practice, innovation, and high-quality care. If you're looking for a role where your skills can have a real impact every day, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
You will play a key role in coordinating and providing family therapy within the community CAMHS team, working with young people experiencing significant mental health difficulties and the families who support them. Using a range of systemic approaches, you will help families understand challenges, strengthen relationships, and identify practical pathways towards positive change. Working both autonomously and collaboratively, you'll contribute to clinical decision-making, care planning, and therapeutic interventions within a multidisciplinary environment. Your expertise will help shape how systemic practice is embedded across the service, ensuring families receive high-quality, compassionate, and effective support. You'll have opportunities to influence service development, contribute to audits and quality improvement projects, support less experienced colleagues, and develop specialist areas of interest. We actively encourage continuous learning and provide regular supervision, peer support, and professional development opportunities to help you thrive. This role would suit a motivated and skilled Family Therapist who enjoys working with complexity, values partnership working, and is committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for children, young people, and their families.

About us
At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:

• Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
• NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
• Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
• A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential

Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work. We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds. Why Somerset? Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breathtaking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away - and only two hours to London. The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future. Somerset truly has it all - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.

Job responsibilities

• Deliver specialist systemic assessments and therapeutic interventions for children, young people, and their families.
• Manage referrals for family therapy and develop meaningful treatment goals that align with wider care plans.
• Work alongside psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and other professionals to provide joined-up, person-centred care.
• Offer consultation, advice, and systemic perspectives to colleagues and partner agencies, including schools and social care services.
• Support risk assessment and risk management planning, helping to ensure safe and effective care.
• Build strong therapeutic relationships with children, young people, parents, carers, and wider support networks.
• Contribute to team formulation, reflective practice, and the continued development of systemic thinking across the service.
• Provide leadership through sharing specialist knowledge and supporting the development of colleagues.
• Participate in supervision, service improvement initiatives, audit activity, and ongoing professional development.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• A professional qualification in one of the following: Social work eg DipSW, Nursing eg CPN, Clinical Psychology or other related profession
• AND
• Certificate in Systemic Family Psychotherapy or MSc or Doctorate in Systemic Family Psychotherapy or equivalent

Desirable

• Other related academic qualifications or training

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working with family systems where children have complex Mental Health needs
• Experience of working with children and families where children have been in need of protection or in the care of the local authority
• Experience of risk assessment and management
• Experience in managing own time/caseload and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Desirable

• Experience of work with children and their families in a CAHMS multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working with children and their families in a CAMHS Inpatient setting

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Knowledge of Social Learning and Systemic theories
• Access to transport (with appropriate business insurance) in order to meet the needs of the service.

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. 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.

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

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Hiring Manager: Rebecca Coram
Email: rebecca.coram@somersetft.nhs.uk
Phone: 01823368368