Family Therapist, Children and Young 's Gender Service

Main area CYP Gender Services Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

Employer Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Warrington Town Warrington Salary £57,528 - £64,750 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/09/2026 08:00

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

• Right to work:
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  Overview -

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional clinician with strong clinical experience to be a family therapist in the Children and Young People’s Gender Service (North West). We are a Phase 1 Provider of Gender Services provided in partnership by Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

As the family therapist in the service you will lead the family therapy clinic and provide specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families. You will have protected time specifically for family therapy. The role will also include liaison and engagement with a range of partnership agencies to ensure an integrated and coordinate care plan is provided.

Experience of providing supervision to clinical practitioners will also be essential to this role.

Successful candidates will have a passion for delivering safe, high quality and effective services to children and young people and will be a strong communicator, committed and well organised, with the ability to work effectively as a senior clinician in a multidisciplinary team.

The main duties for this role are provided in the attached job description

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The base for this service is Mandarin Court, Centre Park, Warrington which includes the following benefits:

• Free parking and free EV charging
• Short walk from Warrington Bank Quay station
• Bicycle storage and on site changing facilities

We welcome applicants looking for both full…