Family and Systemic Psychotherapist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Systemic Family Psychotherapist to join our innovative Systemic Family Therapy Service in the Forensic Directorate. The post holder will join a team of Systemic Family Psychotherapists who work across Medium and Low Secure units and Forensic Outreach teams, ELCFS (The East London Community Forensic Service).

The post holder will deliver specialist systemic interventions to service users referred to the Family Therapy Service. This will involve providing assessment and psychotherapy to service users, their families, and to other non-professional carers. The post involves offering in-reach services to service users approaching discharge, working with inpatient wards, community teams, service users and their families.

The successful candidate will be working across in-patient services and the community outreach team, ELCFS (The East London Community Forensic Service). ELCFS is multidisciplinary service, for service users in the process of and following discharge from the Forensic inpatient service.

This role is ideally suited to experienced Band 8A and Band 7 Systemic Family Psychotherapists who are seeking to advance their careers within a dynamic and innovative environment. This can be for a 12-month fixed term contract or secondment.

·Provision of specialist systemic & family psychotherapy services to service

users and their families and /or carers within inpatient setting and in the

community.

·To offer inreach services to service users approaching discharge, working with

inpatient wards and community teams.

·Facilitating systemic case discussions, co-leading formulation meetings, and

actively participating in Risk meetings and seclusion reviews.

·Providing systemic consultation for service user management, offering

supervision, training, and guidance on psychological care to different teams.

·To contribute to and participate in the teaching and training of staff members of

the MDT in the community and inpatient settings on the principles of systemic

psychotherapy. This is through methods such as offering live supervision in the

family therapy clinic, joint work modelling systemic psychotherapy and teaching

and training across the forensic directorate and to partners where appropriate

(e.g. accommodation providers).

·To contribute to service wide innovations, representing systemic family therapy

(E.g. Trauma Informed care service, Inequality and Diversity Forum, Carer's

forum, Recovery College for Carers).

·To contribute and meet ELFT's Carer's Strategy, offering staff training, systemic

consultation and supervision across the inpatients and community services, to

be aware of carers and engage with carers effectively

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality

of life for all we serve.

Our values are

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we

are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service

users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner

organisations.

Please consult the attached job description and person specification associated with the vacancy profile of this advertisement.

This advert closes on Tuesday 26 May 2026