Family Interventions Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
The Lewisham Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (LEIS) is seeking a highly skilled Family Interventions Therapist to provide family interventions for people experiencing psychosis. The role involves delivering various family interventions, supporting carers, and facilitating a carers support group. The therapist will also provide supervision and consultations to team members and students. This position is within a specialist multidisciplinary community mental health team.
Essential criteria
- Qualifications and Professional Registration in relevant professional area
- Willingness to undertake further training in family intervention.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within an Early Intervention for Psychosis service
- Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
- Experience of assessment and intervention for families affected by psychosis under supervision
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
- Experience of working in a community setting.
- Knowledge and skills
- To deliver family interventions across cultural and other differences.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
- To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for families and carers, and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration in relevant professional area
- Willingness to undertake further training in family intervention.
- Experience of working within an Early Intervention for Psychosis service
- Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
- Experience of assessment and intervention for families affected by psychosis under supervision
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
- Experience of working in a community setting.
- Knowledge and skills
- To deliver family interventions across cultural and other differences.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
- To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for families and carers, and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Family Interventions Therapist
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
The Lewisham Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (LEIS) is looking for a highly enthusiastic and skilled Family Interventions Therapist with experience working with people with psychosis. The successful applicant will share responsibility for the provision of family interventions for psychosis to families and carers. The post holder will join a psychological therapies team within LEIS.
LEIS is a specialist multidisciplinary community mental health team supporting people aged 18-65 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis. The team uses well-researched Early Intervention strategies and works intensively with service users and carers for up to three years, to promote engagement with the team and with a range of interventions to facilitate social inclusion and recovery.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for developing and supporting the provision of family interventions at LEIS, particularly facilitating the teams' work with families where a member is experiencing psychosis. Family interventions involve experience delivering FI, Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions, Open Dialogue, Cognitive-Behavioural Family Interventions or Systemic oriented family interventions and psycho-education. The role will also involve
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