# Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, Barnet CAMHS > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-and-systemic-psychotherapist-barnet-camhs/8e192cd1-6526-4140-a4b9-5c933be43b87 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-and-systemic-psychotherapist-barnet-camhs/8e192cd1-6526-4140-a4b9-5c933be43b87.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent: post split across 2 teams - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (N/a) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-07T11:12:59.963Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Edgware/North_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Family_Therapy/Family_Therapy-v8136987 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8136987?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Barnet CAMHS – North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) Are you looking for a qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist post?  Would you like to join a warm, welcoming, inclusive, and diverse generic and neurodevelopemental team within 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 a Band 7 Systemic Family Psychotherapist to work across Barnet Generic CAMHS and the Neurodevelopmental team, based at Edgware Community Hospital. Barnet CAMHS is an increasing diverse multidisciplinary 0–18 service providing care for children and young people experiencing moderate to severe emotional and mental health difficulties, including complex presentations and a range of neurodevelopmental needs. Our approach is compassionate, creative, flexible, evidence-based, and systemically informed, with a strong focus on supporting families and carers. Interested? If you are at the beginning of your career as a systemic family therapist this will be a unique opportunity to gain valuable experiences and we hope you will be  encouraged to apply. For full details, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the advert. To discuss the post please contact Emma Fassett - Generic Team Manager ### Main duties of the job - To provide generic CAMHS assessments, formulation and systemically informed therapy to individuals, families or groups, referred to Barnet generic CAMHS and SCAN. - To contribute to the Generic CAMHS Family Therapy clinic providing specialist systemic interventions to families - To offer systemic consultations on clients' psychological care to colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services, Local Authority Social Care and the Education setting. - To provide initial Neurodevelopmental disorder assessments including screening for ADHD and ASD. - To work autonomously and co-operatively while adhering to our professional guidelines and the Barnet CAMHS policies and procedures. - To provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues and trainees, dependent on experience. - To work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing a systemic lens to assessment and treatment options, as discussed in Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities What You’ll Be Doing In this role, you will: - Provide systemic family therapy treatments as part of  regular family therapy clinics and as a sole systemic family therapist - Provide generic and neurodevelopmental CAMHS assessments across generic and the neurodevelopmental team - 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 to clinical governance, service development, and quality improvement, including audits and research. - Develop and deliver training aligned with systemic practice and specialist areas. ## Person Specification ### OTHER REQUIREMENTS **Essential** - A commitment to service user participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organization High level of enthusiasm and motivation - Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision - Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate - Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships **Desirable** - Awareness and understanding of emotional distress/mental health problems drawn from personal experience ### PERSONAL QUALITIES **Essential** - An ability for team working, excellent interpersonal skills and written and verbal skills, importance of a positive “can do” attitude and a positive attitude to change - Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality ### SKILLS AND ABILITIES **Essential** - Skills in the use of general Mental Health assessments and ability to provide systemic and family psychotherapy - Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS - Masters level knowledge of systemic research literature in relation to the field of child and adolescent mental health. - Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families. - Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health - Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies - Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff - Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression or the threat of physical aggression - Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time - Skills in using IT, including MS office applications, electronic clinical record systems **Desirable** - Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups ### EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE **Essential** - Experience of generic CAMHS assessment and treatment, utilising relevant models of psychological therapies - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with differing presenting problems. - Experience of working with children and young people in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area. - Experience with routine outcome monitoring. - Experience of work in multidisciplinary team/multi-agency contexts - Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting. **Desirable** - Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. - Experience in enabling service user participation - Experience of assessment and treating children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders ### EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS **Essential** - MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy and professional registration with UKCP **Desirable** - Post-qualification training in additional specialised areas of clinical practice ## Documents - [person spec (pdf, 456.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10435150) - [functional req (pdf, 496.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10435151) - [jd and person spec (pdf, 456.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10435149) - [a comprehensive guide for candidates (pdf, 544.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2959) - [trac - value based recruitment guidance for candidate (pdf, 4.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2440) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - 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