Highly Specialist Clinician (Family Therapist) and Senior Lecturer

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a Highly Specialised Systemic Family Psychotherapist and Senior Lecturer for a dual role, combining clinical practice with academic leadership. The candidate will contribute to service delivery while advancing postgraduate training in systemic psychotherapy, ensuring high-quality therapeutic services across complex cases.

Benefits

27 days annual leave pro rata

Flexible working hours

Continuous professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered with AFT and UKCP as a Systemic & Family Psychotherapist.
• Evidence of substantial clinical experience with client populations.
• Experience of clinical supervision in a Family Therapy setting.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload offering therapeutic services to individuals, couples, and families.
• Engage in teaching and development of postgraduate training programmes.
• Provide consultation to external agencies and communicate complex information sensitively.

Skills

Systemic and Family Psychotherapy

Clinical Assessment

Teaching Excellence

Research

Education

Masters Level Qualification in Systemic and Family Psychotherapy

Professional Doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy

Job description

Job summary

We are excited to announce a new and unique opportunity to join our team in a dual role for a Highly Specialised Systemic Family Psychotherapist and a Senior Lecturer. This newly created position offers the chance to contribute both clinically and academically within a dynamic and multidisciplinary environment.

The successful candidate will bring advanced expertise in systemic and family psychotherapy to deliver high-quality therapeutic services, working with individuals, couples, and families across a range of complex cases. Simultaneously, they will hold a key academic role within our teaching faculty, contributing to the delivery, and development of postgraduate training programmes in systemic practice and related disciplines.

As a Senior Lecturer, the postholder will demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching excellence, research, and clinical supervision. This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and innovative practitioner-educator to influence both service delivery and professional training, while advancing the field of systemic psychotherapy.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Post

The post holder will hold a complex caseload within the multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a range of clinical assessments and offering highly skilled treatments or therapies that are outcome focused, and evidence based, using appropriate therapeutic modalities. You will review cases where patients have impasses, complaints or disputes with their clinical care.

You will provide consultation to external agencies such as GPs/schools/Local authorities and expert consultation and specialist psychological advice to other staff and agencies outside the Trust

The post holder will communicate complex information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, at times dealing with service users who may be hostile or present challenging behaviours.

Senior Lecturer Role

The position of Senior Lecturer has been introduced to enable flexible delivery within a portfolio of courses, and where appropriate, across portfolios. It aims to facilitate the post holder in implementing a wide range of skills within an integrated post. At senior level, the post holder will be required to undertake a leadership role in relation to an aspect of course delivery such as module leadership; assessment; recruitment etc.

This is not an exhaustive list, p lease see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

About us

Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve. The Trust aims to ensure that all job applicants, employees or clients are treated fairly and valued equally regardless of sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, domestic circumstances, age, race, colour, disablement, ethnic or national origin, social background or employment status, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, HIV status, gender identity, political affiliation or trade union membership. Selection for training and development and promotion will be based on the individual's ability to meet the requirements for the job. You are responsible for ensuring that the Trust's policies, procedures and obligations in respect of promoting equality and diversity are adhered to in relation to both staff and services.

Hours of duty: 37.5 hours per week

Annual leave: 27 days per year pro rata - minimum (this increases

depending on the length of NHS service)

Details Date posted

28 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£61,927 to £68,676 a year Per annum including Inner London

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

260-TP-934

Job locations

Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust

120 Belsize Lane,

London

NW3 5BA

Job description Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Job description Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification Highly Specialist Clinician and Systemic and Modal Portfolio Essential

• Systemic and Family Psychotherapist Masters Level Qualification
• Registration with AFT and UKCP as a Systemic & Family Psychotherapist.
• UKCP and AFT registered Systemic Psychotherapist and supervisor.
• Appropriately qualified to teach the discipline at the required academic level.
• Evidence of substantial clinical experience of working with client population.
• Some experience of clinical supervision, particularly within a Family Therapy Clinic.
• Capacity to engage students from a wide range of educational, cultural and social backgrounds and ensure issues of equality, diversity and inclusion are attended to across all aspects of role.

Desirable

• A Professional Doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy
• Some experience of clinical management of staff
• Experience of doctoral supervision preferably with one or more completions.
• Experience of quality assurance, academic governance and the student experience
• Experience of doctoral examining
• Experience in record of writing for publication and engaging in scholarly activity.
• Understanding and experience of research and supervision of projects addressed to questions of equity, equality, diversity, inclusion, disadvantage, discrimination etc

Person Specification Highly Specialist Clinician and Systemic and Modal Portfolio Essential

• Systemic and Family Psychotherapist Masters Level Qualification
• Registration with AFT and UKCP as a Systemic & Family Psychotherapist.
• UKCP and AFT registered Systemic Psychotherapist and supervisor.
• Appropriately qualified to teach the discipline at the required academic level.
• Evidence of substantial clinical experience of working with client population.
• Some experience of clinical supervision, particularly within a Family Therapy Clinic.
• Capacity to engage students from a wide range of educational, cultural and social backgrounds and ensure issues of equality, diversity and inclusion are attended to across all aspects of role.

Desirable

• A Professional Doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy
• Some experience of clinical management of staff
• Experience of doctoral supervision preferably with one or more completions.
• Experience of quality assurance, academic governance and the student experience
• Experience of doctoral examining
• Experience in record of writing for publication and engaging in scholarly activity.
• Understanding and experience of research and supervision of projects addressed to questions of equity, equality, diversity, inclusion, disadvantage, discrimination etc

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust

120 Belsize Lane,

London

NW3 5BA

Employer's website

https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust

120 Belsize Lane,

London

NW3 5BA

Employer's website

https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)