Band 8a Lead Systemic Family Therapist - Bristol
Are you an experienced Systemic Family Therapist looking for an opportunity to lead, influence and develop systemic practice within a supportive and forward-thinking CAMHS service?
Bristol South CAMHS is seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic Lead Systemic Family Therapist to play a key role in strengthening systemic practice across our service. This is an exciting senior clinical leadership opportunity for someone who is passionate about relational approaches, committed to delivering high-quality care and motivated to support service development and innovation.
The successful applicant will take a lead role within the Bristol South CAMHS Eating Disorders pathway, providing specialist systemic assessment and intervention for young people and their families. You will coordinate clinics, support complex case discussions, and provide consultation, supervision and leadership to colleagues, ensuring families have access to high-quality, evidence-informed systemic interventions.
We are proud of our longstanding commitment to systemic practice and the development of systemic professionals. AWP CAMHS has established links with the University of Exeter and actively supports systemic family practitioner training, including MSc students on placement.
For applicants who may be earlier in their post-qualification journey, we are happy to consider appointment into a 12-month developmental pathway, supported by both in-house and external training opportunities as appropriate.
To lead on a local provision for Eating Disorders in order to meet the needs of those referred and to work alongside all ED teams across BNSSG. This includes working closely with adolescent in-patient units, the acute wards, the eating disorder 'HUB' and ED Home Treatment Team.
To take the lead and supervise specific systemic interventions within a CAMHS team.
To take the lead in offering systemic interventions in accordance with the CCHP care pathways and according to NICE guidance.
To ensure that appropriate levels of clinical supervision are maintained and that clinical governance is of an excellent standard.
To participate fully in the work of CAMHS, as well as participating in the referral and assessment process (Choice & Partnership Approach/I-thrive approach).
To train others & offer supervised clinics for example, Systemic MSc and Systemic Family Practice
To work within all latest relevant clinical frameworks and guidelines including (but not limited to) NICE, Future in Mind, Eating Disorders Commissioning Guide etc.
To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding issues and child development to work with young people and families referred to CAMHS and identify when to refer to other agencies.
To use professional skills in on-going clinical evaluation, which will include the use of appropriate routine outcome measures and through responding effectively to feedback from members of the client and professional system.
To hold an appropriate caseload.
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Adam Deuchars Job title: Clinical Service Manager, Bristol South CAMHS Email address: adam.deuchars@nhs.net Telephone number: 0117 919 0330
