Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 06/08/2026
- Closes
- 03/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join the multidisciplinary team at the Becton Centre for Children and Young People. The role involves working with young people with complex mental health presentations, providing direct family and systemic psychotherapy, and contributing a systemic perspective to assessment and care planning. The successful candidate will join an experienced team of psychological professionals and will be based on Emerald Lodge, with input into Ruby Lodge.
Essential criteria
- Registration as a systemic family therapist with the UKCP
- Masters/Doctoral level qualification in Family Systemic Psychotherapy or equivalent
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and significant demonstrable practice.
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training and accreditation in a specialised area of psychological practice
- Significant practice experience in relevant first profession (in Health and/or Social Care settings)
- Experience of working and communicating with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course; in particular with children and young people, as well as work with family groups and adults, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
- Experience of a wide variety of child & family clinical presentations across the full range of severity and care settings
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Experience of representing family therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings, including inpatient care
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge & Skills
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment intervention and management with children and adolescents with complex and significant mental health problems frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children of all ages, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Relevant master's level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Some knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. eating disorder, dual diagnoses, severely challenging behaviours etc.)
- Personal Attributes
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Experience of multi-agency working
- Ability to self-manage within a busy and often emotionally clinical environment.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Qualifications and Training
- Registration as a systemic family therapist with the UKCP
- Masters/Doctoral level qualification in Family Systemic Psychotherapy or equivalent
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and significant demonstrable practice.
- Post-qualification training and accreditation in a specialised area of psychological practice
- Significant practice experience in relevant first profession (in Health and/or Social Care settings)
- Experience of working and communicating with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course; in particular with children and young people, as well as work with family groups and adults, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
- Experience of a wide variety of child & family clinical presentations across the full range of severity and care settings
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and withi
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Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
The closing date is 03 September 2026
Job summary
Permanent | Part Time 30 hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join the multidisciplinary team at the Becton Centre for Children and Young People.
The Becton Centre has 3 lodges working with young people with a range of complex mental health presentations who require intensive assessment, stabilisation and treatment. Family and systemic psychotherapy is a valued and established profession within the MDT.
The successful post holder will join an experienced Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist and a range of other psychological professionals (Clinical Psychologists, art psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists) as part of the varied multidisciplinary team.
As well as joining an established group of psychological professionals within the inpatient CAMH Service, the successful postholder will join the supportive group of Family and Systemic Psychotherapists at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation trust who meet regularly.
This post will be based on Emerald Lodge who support young people under the age of 13 with complex mental health presentations and will input into Ruby Lodge who support young people with learning disabilities and mental health pre
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