Family and Systemic Psychotherapist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	04 September 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£50,008 - £56,908 per annum, pro rata (Incl of HCAS)
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	04 October 2025
Location:	Reading, RG6 6BZ
Company:	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7461851/371-TAP-CFS5381

Summary

Are you a qualified (or about to qualify) Family and Systemic Psychotherapist seeking a varied role in a supportive, collaborative team?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 psychotherapist to join our Berkshire CAMHS West Specialist Community Team, covering Reading, Wokingham, and Newbury. Your main base will be Erlegh House, in the beautiful grounds of the University of Reading.

The Specialist Community Teams provide assessments, therapeutic interventions, and care coordination for children and young people with moderate to severe complex mental health difficulties. Working with a complex, diverse and varied caseload across social, cultural, and individual differences, your role includes:
• Delivering assessments, interventions and care
• Offering individual and family sessions and running reflective clinics
• Collaborating with schools, social care, and other agencies
• Being involved in service development
• Receiving regular supervision ongoing learning opportunities

You might be a newly qualified therapist seeking excellent learning opportunities from senior therapists and psychologists, or an experienced practitioner looking for a flexible role in a compassionate service. This part time role could be four full days or five shorter days to fit around any other commitments. Our Trust is rated "Outstanding" by the CQC and is recognised for its supportive culture, where staff feel valued.
• Provide comprehensive assessments and therapeutic interventionstoyoung people and their families, asappropriate.  

• Provide careco-ordinationfor young people open to theService. 

• Independently manage an appropriately sized caseload. 

• Use supervision effectively. 

• Offer supervision and training to junior colleagues and other agencies asappropriate.  

• Work with colleagues to support theclinical leadership of the team. 

• Work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and within a multiagency system. 

• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice.  

• Contribute to audit, service development and research, asappropriate.

• Maintainowncontinuing professional development and contribute to team professional development initiatives

Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply ASAP, as vacancies may close early


Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

The“must haves”for this role:

• A qualified or about to qualify Family and Systemic psychotherapist accredited by UKCP
• A core profession as per the job specification
• Experience in children, young people and families Mental Health services (this could include placements)
• A UK driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the equivalent ability to effectively reach rural locations.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.


We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.


We’recommitted to equal opportunitiesand welcomeapplications fromall sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected inour accreditations:Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.


We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have.Please don’t hesitate to call: Christina Subrai, Team Manager on 07815485190 or email: christina.subrai@berkshire.nhs.uk.


Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so pleasesubmityour application as soon as possible.



This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025

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