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Job Summary
8a Family Therapist - Adult Eating Disorders Service
Are You: Feeling passionate about improving the wellbeing and lives of people with eating disorders? Seeking to develop specialist skills to assess, formulate and deliver evidence‑based clinical interventions for this client group? Interested in supporting and empowering the wider team?
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) Suffolk Community Adult Eating Disorders Service are looking for a suitably experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with a desire to develop their specialist skills in eating disorders. We are passionate about service improvement and taking our clinical practice to a level of excellence – and we would like you to be part of this!
Responsibilities
The post holder will have experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours, exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment. You will apply complex methods of systemic assessment, intervention and management and possess well‑developed communication skills. You will work closely with the established systemic workforce, the senior leadership teams, and provide systemic consultation to the wider care system, including acute hospital trusts and other secondary mental health services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Postgraduate qualification in an appropriate mental‑health/social‑welfare profession
* Master’s or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy
* Eligibility for UKCP registration
* Training in teaching Systematic Psychotherapy
Experience
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by UKCP/AFT guidelines
Skills
* Skills in applying systemic theory to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations
* Ability to support the development of the profession through participation in professional bodies and activities
* Ability to manage and contain organisational stress and support others in doing the same
Benefits
* NHS pension
* Comprehensive in‑house and external training programmes
* Career progression
* Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
* Staff physiotherapy service
* NHS discounts and many more
Employer Information
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Resource Centre, Walker Close, Ipswich, IP3 8LY
Website: https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
Details
Reference number: 246-WSU7394924-B
Location: Resource Centre, Walker Close, Ipswich, IP3 8LY
Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 a year pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part‑time, Flexible working
Band: 8a
Posted: 17 October 2025
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