Band 7 Systemic Family Therapist - Chippenham
| Posting date: | 19 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 October 2025 |
| Location: | Chippenham, SN15 1JW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9342-25-0895 |
Summary
To provide a Family and Couples service to the specified Team/Service. To enhance systemic thinking and anti-discriminatory practice. To assess and treat a specialist workload of clients and maintain associated records. To participate in CPD and other developmental activities including training. To undertake R & D and clinical audit. CLINICAL To support service provision of Systemic Family Therapy including assessment and therapy both for families, individuals and groups as appropriate. To provide a specialist consultancy service to multidisciplinary teams and other agencies providing care for the client group. To participate in generic team duties as agreed by the operational manager and Psychology Lead as appropriate, to the needs of the service. To participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Psychology Service. To maintain accurate records and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems. To ensure timely recording of all data required by the Trust. To support the full implementation of Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan acting as keyworker as appropriate to the needs of the client. PROFESSIONAL To adhere to the HCPC policies and procedures or equivalent related to any core profession. To adhere to the Association of Family Therapists (AFT) code of conduct. To be aware of, adhere to, and where appropriate, contribute to the formulation and review of Trust, Area and Psychology Service policies and procedures. To participate in local meetings and Trust wide meetings as appropriate. To maintain and develop high standards of practice by engaging in continuing professional development and co-operative working/networking with colleagues. To participate in an annual performance appraisal. SERVICE GOVERNANCE To participate in service governance processes in the profession, ensuring a safe and effective service. To support and participate in multidisciplinary clinical audit. To liaise with other disciplines and agencies to ensure that best practice is shared. To promote the use of effective interventions in the service. TRAINING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT To provide training, supervision and consultation in Systemic Family Therapy and other psychological approaches to other staff in the multidisciplinary team. This to include joint assessment with key-workers, formulation of psychological problems and planning of interventions to be implemented by key-workers or other team members with service users. To provide training and supervision to appropriate staff. To collaborate with colleagues to develop and offer training courses, workshops and supervision groups to develop skills in psychological interventions. To contribute to the teaching of students and trainees in psychology, medicine, nursing and other health care disciplines. To agree a plan of personal development with the Family Therapy Lead and the post holders line manager. To provide inclusive, compassionate and effective leadership for your team by setting clear vision and direction. To develop a culture and environment in which members of staff are encouraged and supported to deliver high- quality services and are supported to innovate and improve services where appropriate. To encourage your team to feel able to raise concerns openly and safely. To promote equality of opportunity in service delivery and employment, ensuring that no person receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, religion, creed, colour nationality ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation or disability. To ensure that key messages are cascaded in your team and that your team are encouraged to put forward suggestions. To show appreciation to your team when they do good work and support them when they are struggling. To consider the individual needs of team members for a healthy work-life balance and think about how their needs can be supported by providing flexible ways of working. To seek support from the HR Team to tackle any worries regarding matters of discipline, including both conduct and capability concerns, supporting a just and restorative culture. To take prompt action regarding serious concerns and ensure clear plans are in place for problems which are less serious in nature but prove difficult to resolve. Act as a positive role model at all times, encouraging people to feel equal members of the team whilst working within clear frameworks and policies. Ensure that you and your team understand all of the agreed key performance indicators for your service, particularly relating to outcomes and essential standards to be met. SERVICE AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT To collaborate with other specialist staff in designated area to extend the range of specialist psychological and group interventions available across the area. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT To engage in research relevant to service priorities as appropriate. To participate in audit and service evaluation activities examining the effectiveness of current service delivery and leading to development of services relevant to client needs. To undertake advice, support and consultation to colleagues from other disciplines undertaking research in the area.