Band 8a Senior Family and Systemic Psychotherapist - Swindon

We are seeking a senior Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, to take up this exciting role developing Family Therapy provision in Adult Mental Health Services in Swindon. The post holder will be based within Swindon locality.
The post holder will provide specialist, evidence based therapy to families with a member who is receiving care in secondary services. This will include continuing to run the Family Therapy Clinic, which is currently staffed by a supervisor and warm, motivated and experienced colleagues from Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry. We also typically have a Family Therapy MSc student from Exeter University.
Family Therapy services are also keen to develop clinics that include community involvement and participation: the BANES FT service has recently created a Family Therapy Clinic at Bath City Farm and the Swindon post holder will be encouraged and supported to explore similar options. The post holder will also hold an individual caseload outside of clinic work themselves. They will also have a key leadership role in providing supervision, consultation and training to professionals in other teams whilst helping to ensure that systemic thinking is present in all aspects of our care. The role will involve working in partnership with service users, colleagues within PTS, and with the BSW Lead for Family Therapy., You should have significant post-qualification experience of providing evidence based, systemic interventions. In addition to carrying a clinical caseload, you will play a key role in advising on ways to improve access to NICE recommended interventions for service users who would benefit from a systemic approach.
The role will involve supervision, consultation and training to colleagues in other teams on the importance of considering the system around a service user. As a key principle of systemic care emphasises collaboration, you should feel comfortable liaising with a wide variety of stakeholders, including service users, those close to them, their professional networks, including third sector providers. The post holder will receive line management from the Head of the Psychological Therapies Service, and clinical supervision with the BSW Family Therapy Lead, and will work closely with both Leads in Swindon., Swindon Psychological Therapies Service comprises a supportive team of Arts Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, and CBT Therapists, and is co-located with the Recovery Service which is also a Multi-Disciplinary team. All staff have access to regular activities to support their ongoing professional development, including access to a bi-monthly CPD club. The team has a strong commitment to supporting staff wellbeing, including a bi-monthly reflective practice session and a monthly team wellbeing newsletter.
AWP have a commitment to career development for Family Therapy and currently there is a training fund for the Systemic Supervisor's course in Adult Mental Health services- allocation would be dependent on the number of applications/fit with service.
See the detailed job description and person specification for full details of the responsibilities associated with this role.
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
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.