Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

Help Transform the Lives of Children, Young People and Families

Are you a passionate and experienced Family & Systemic Psychotherapist looking to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, young people and their families? Come and join our specialist CAMHS Eating Disorders Service in Basingstoke.

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a well-established, multidisciplinary team providing specialist assessment and evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing eating disorders and associated mental health difficulties. The successful post holder will play a key role in delivering systemic interventions that place families at the heart of recovery and support.

As a Highly Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapist, you will work as a core member of the Community CAMHS Eating Disorders Service, providing a high-quality, specialist psychological therapy service to children, young people, their families and carers.

You will provide highly specialist systemic assessments, formulations and therapeutic interventions for individuals and families presenting with complex emotional, psychological and mental health needs associated with eating disorders. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute specialist psychological knowledge and systemic perspectives to assessment, treatment planning and service delivery.

For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see attached job description; please review this thoroughly prior to application.

• To carry out specialist psychological therapy assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care, in order to reach a psychological formulation of the client's difficulties.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological therapy treatment and/or management of a client's wellbeing and mental health challenges, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing highly specialist psychological therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.

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…