Crynodeb o'r swydd
- Prif leoliad
- Systemic Family Therapist
- Gradd
- Band 7
- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Rhan-amser - 22.5 awr yr wythnos
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 351-CEN2439-CL
- Cyflogwr
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- North Lancs & South Cumbria SPCMHT
- Tref
- Lancaster
- Cyflog
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa pro rata
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 25/02/2026 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr
Systemic Family Practitioner
Band 7
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Are you a qualified systemic therapist looking to use your skills in a compassionate team making a real difference to the lives of women, babies and their families in the North Lancashire and South Cumbria area? NL&SC SPCMHT are looking for a skilled and caring professional who is passionate about working in a perinatal service.
You will deliver systemic interventions to women and families referred into the perinatal service. You will join a friendly and welcoming MDT and will play in key role in embedding and supporting systemic thinking into the team. You will be supported by senior clinicians within the team and will also be part of a compassionate therapies team, which includes systemic colleagues working across the LSCFT patch.
NL&SC SPCMHT covers a vast footprint including Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre, Lancaster and South Cumbria. As a team and service, we support flexible working and offer fantastic training and development opportunities!
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
• To contribute to a high quality specialist systemic service to service users and families as part of the Perinatal Service.
• To provide specialist systemic assessment, formulation and therapy within the service.
• To offer advice, consultancy and supervision as appropriate and support the work of colleagues providing care and treatment, according to expertise.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• To be involved in service developments, as appropriate.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Manyleb y person
Education/ Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Professional qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline OR agreed Association of Family Therapy (AFT) equivalent.
- Postgraduate training in Systemic Practice to enable the title of Systemic Practitioner – namely completion of either ‘AFT approved’ Intermediate Level Systemic Practice Training or CYP-IAPT in Systemic Family Practice.
- Registration with the appropriate regulatory body for core profession.
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Skills in the use of methods of Systemic Practice/ family based assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- High level of relationship and communication skills to work with clients, families and/or professionals where the atmosphere might be both pressured and emotive.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to comprehend and communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information in a manner appropriate to a range of settings and audiences, including complex emotive situations and those with impaired communication capacities.
- Ability to liaise with and utilise analytical skills to manage complex professional meetings, networks and processes in relation to individuals and families.
- Knowledge of and skill in using the variety of approaches and methods within systemic practice (i.e. social constructionist, narrative, solution focused, etc.) as required to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations.
- Ability to provide ongoing treatment in complex, unstable and frequently changing circumstances.
Personal
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to sit for extended periods of time and maintain intense focussed concentration during clinical tasks often with pressurised circumstances
- Ability to withstand high levels of emotionally charged situations.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to “hold” the stress of others.
Other
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Accountable for own professional actions within professional ethics and trust policy.
- Commitment to trauma informed practice.
Bathodynnau ardystio / achredu cyflogwyr
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Application numbers
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Jo Gorry
- Teitl y swydd
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07971 671 346
Rhestr swyddi gyda Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust yn Nyrsio a Bydwreigiaeth