Specialist Systemic Family Psychotherapist

Go back Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 12 March 2026

We are excited to advertise for a full time Band 7 Systemic Family Therapy to joinour experienced team.

We have an experienced band 8a SFT who will support with supervision and development, as well as two band 7 SFT's in post and a band 8B Systemic Family therapist who works reduced hours but offers supervision and vast clinical insight.

You will work closely with the Service Manager, Professional Lead and the Family Therapy Lead to support the full implementation of Family Therapy for our service users and parents/carers following NICE Guidelines for Eating Disorders. You will also support any Family Therapy Trainees within EDS. We have recently launched a Surrey Wide Team and Screen service which we hope to role out to all family therapists in the coming years.

We are committed to providing flexible working patters to enable good work life balance and offer working hours between 8am-6pm. We would welcome applicants interested in working part time or full time. We are based in Epsom and also have a two day clinic in Aldershot Centre for Health.

The post holder will provide a highly specialist Systemic Psychotherapy which will be based on specialist knowledge about helping young people and their families with eating disorders.

We currently treat all young people presenting with Binge Eating Disorder, ARFID, Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Due to the 2016 NHSE Access and Waiting Times Guidance for Eating Disorders, we have developed additional pathways to ensure more timely delivery of evidenced based psychological therapies for all of our children and young people. This post will enhance that remit. The team is very well established and performing to an outstanding level.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Please see attached the Highly Specialist Systemic Family Psychotherapist Job Description for full details of this role.

• Current or imminent registration with UKCP
• Current or imminent registration with AFT

• Current or imminent successful completion of an MSc in Systemic Family Psychotherapy

• Minimum of 1 years' post graduate experience working in the field of child and adolescent Mental Health or experience working with eating disorders

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£50,008 to £56,908 a year Inc 5% Fringe HCAS pa