Systemic Family Therapist band 8a/7-8a


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£49,387 - £64,750
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bury, BL9 7TD
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	31 Jul 2026
Closing date:	13 Aug 2026

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Summary

To provide systemic psychotherapy as an autonomous professional at a highly specialist level employing methods based upon evidence. At all times work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families and people with mental health difficulties. To take a proactive stance in challenging racism and discrimination and support the development of a culturally competent service. To undertake detailed and highly specialist psychological and systemic assessment of children and families using such assessment procedures as may be appropriate. This will involve face to face contact with children and families to discuss and work through highly complex, sensitive and personal information related to their mental health presentation. This would also include the completion of personal and relational development, genograms, eco-maps, analysis and assessment of multiple levels of contextual meaning, deconstruction of current interactional patterns of behaviour and meaning around mental health issues and complex relationships, creating methods for client centred analysis of change, through the use of live team observations, videotape analysis, and other systemic assessment tools. To provide highly specialist psychological assessment including issues of risk. To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic interventions for individuals and their families, including meetings with parents and groups, adjusting and refining systemic formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

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