Systemic Family Psychotherapist (Band 8a) | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Edgware; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

NHS Discounts

NHS pension scheme

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 8a Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapist to work across Barnet CAMHS, based at Edgware Community Hospital. You will lead family therapy clinics and provide specialist systemic therapy for children, young people and families.

The role offers supervision of junior therapists, involvement in multidisciplinary teams, access to training across NLNFT and partner sites, and contributions to governance, service development and audits.

Qualifications

• Lead family therapy clinics and deliver systemic family therapy.
• Provide clinical supervision to junior therapists and colleagues.
• Contribute to governance, training, and service development.

Responsibilities

• Lead family therapy clinics
• Provide clinical supervision to junior family therapists, systemic practitioners and/or psychological therapists
• Provide systemic family therapy treatments as part of regular family therapy clinics
• Provide generic CAMHS assessments
• Participate in developments and running of groups (e.g. NVR or multi family groups)
• Work with THRIVE-informed partnership agencies
• Join multidisciplinary teams and governance meetings
• Access training opportunities across North London Foundation Trust and Tavistock/Portman
• Contribute to clinical governance, service development and quality improvement
• Develop and deliver training aligned with systemic practice

Skills

Family therapy

Systemic therapy

Clinical supervision

Job description

Systemic Family Psychotherapist (Band 8a) | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

Would you like to join awarm, welcoming, inclusive, and diverse core generic teamwithin Barnet CAMHS, committed to delivering high-quality care to children, young people, and families?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for aBand 8a Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapistto work across Barnet Generic CAMHS team, based atEdgware Community Hospital.

Barnet CAMHS is an increasing diversemultidisciplinary 0-18 service providing care for children and young people experiencingmoderate to severe emotional and mental health difficulties, includingcomplex presentations anda range ofneurodevelopmental needs. Our approach iscompassionate, creative, flexible, evidence-based, and systemically informed, with a strong focus on supporting families and carers.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead family therapy clinics
• Provide clinical supervision to junior family therapists, systemic practitioners and / or psychological therapists
• Provide systemic family therapy treatments as part of regular family therapy clinics and as a sole systemic family therapist
• Provide generic CAMHS assessments
• Participate in the developments and running of groups eg NVR or multi family groups
• Work closely with our partnership agencies in THRIVE informed pathways
• Participate and contribute in multidisciplinary teams, reflective process groups and regular systemic discipline meetings
• Access a variety of training opportunities of the North London Foundation trust which now also includes the Tavistock and Portman clinic
• Contribute toclinical governance, service development, and quality improvement, including audits and research.
• Develop and delivertrainingaligned with systemic practice and specialist areas.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• 1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• 2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• 4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

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

This advert closes on Tuesday 20 Oct 2026

£47,951 - £56,863 per annum, inclusive of HCAS

£63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro-rata)