Family and Systemic Psychotherapist Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Company: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Salary: £51,657 - £58,785 per annum ( Incl of HCAS)
Are you looking for a new rewarding position working alongside a fantastically supportive team who consistently rate their job satisfaction highly?
We are looking for a Systemic Family Therapist to join our very well-established All Age Eating Disorders Service . We have a full-time vacancy in our Children's Team. We can provide excellent training and support in working with eating disorders.
You will play an important role providing specialist assessments, care planning and a range of evidence-based interventions. You will work one to one with our patients and their families as well as delivering group treatments.
This will be a varied role working as part of a multidisciplinary team and with professionals across agencies.
The working pattern for this role is Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 17:00pm. There is flexibility for some home working.
- Assessing children and their families referred to Berkshire Eating Disorders Service
- Creating care plans for patients referred to the service
- Delivering a range of specialist systemic interventions
- Undertaking and reviewing risk assessments
- Providing specialist advice to and liaising with other professionals
- Maintaining up to date and accurate clinical records
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
- 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
- Compassiontowards people struggling with eating disorders and mental health difficulties, and a heartfelt desire to help others;
- Resiliencewhich enables you to work in a fast-paced and at times demanding NHS environment;
- Commitmentto your colleagues and the ability to support each other, "muckin" andpull together as a team
- Creativityand innovation as you will be a part of a team which prides itself on adapting quickly and innovatively to change and challenges
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 opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our 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. Pleasedon'thesitate tocontactthe Children's Clinical TeamLead,Emma Regan 'llbe delighted to help.
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 Tuesday 25 Aug 2026
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust