# Family / Systemic Psychotherapist - CEDS > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-systemic-psychotherapist-ceds/65e72aff-79f1-4869-9270-6ce3aa93da6e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-systemic-psychotherapist-ceds/65e72aff-79f1-4869-9270-6ce3aa93da6e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 18.75 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-15T13:22:04.108Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Bedford/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Family_Systemic_Psychotherapist_CEDS/Family_Systemic_Psychotherapist_CEDS-v8084021 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8084021?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This post holder will provide a specialist service within Community Eating Disorders Service, CAMHS to young people and their families. This is a community-based post, located within the countywide Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments to all eating disorder presentations and co-morbidities. The post holder will be an experienced therapist with a substantial knowledge in the field of child and adolescent mental health. ### Main duties of the job The role will include the provision of highly specialist advice/consultation, assessment of mental health and eating disorder presentations, liaison with other agencies, systemic interventions, managing a caseload, clinical supervision, line management, and teaching of staff and/or other professionals. The post holder will need to work flexibly within the team, and be able to provide tailored intervention based on client need and evidence-based treatment of eating disorders ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information and the job description please contact Eleanor Chesters Clinical Team Lead \[email protected\] ## Job Details This post holder will provide a specialist service within Community Eating Disorders Service, CAMHS to young people and their families. This is a community-based post, located within the countywide Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments to all eating disorder presentations and co-morbidities. The post holder will be an experienced therapist with a substantial knowledge in the field of child and adolescent mental health. ## Job Description The role will include the provision of highly specialist advice/consultation, assessment of mental health and eating disorder presentations, liaison with other agencies, systemic interventions, managing a caseload, clinical supervision, line management, and teaching of staff and/or other professionals. The post holder will need to work flexibly within the team, and be able to provide tailored intervention based on client need and evidence-based treatment of eating disorders ## Responsibilities For further information and the job description please contact Eleanor Chesters Clinical Team Lead \[email protected\] ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of specialist systemic assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, family systems and groups, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration - A specialist level of clinical skill Skills in applying systemic theory to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations - Well developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age appropriate level, complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to children, adolescents, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS - Ability to communicate distressing and unwelcome information to children, adolescents and their families **Desirable** - Previous experience of delivering FBT/FT in AN and eating disorders - Previous experience of facilitating group work would be desirable - Evidence of well developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS ### Experience **Essential** - Post-qualifying experience - Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse - Experience of working with children and young people in an emotionally demanding environment. - Experience of working with children and young people and their families in a therapeutic context **Desirable** - Previous experience of working in CAMHS - Experience of working with a wide range of CAMHS problems - Experience of working with eating disorders ### Qualifications **Essential** - Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession such as Social Work, Nursing, Psychology, Psychiatry, Teaching OR AFT-agreed equivalent - Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy or AFT agreed equivalent - UKCP Registration - Evidence of CPD **Desirable** - Experience in delivering and clinically supervising appropriate family based therapies for treatment of eating disorders. ## Documents - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [family therapist (pdf, 488.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10376593) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) ## 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. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.