# Highly Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-family-and-systemic-psychotherapist/81c11478-9af5-42df-b129-e4091f31603d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-family-and-systemic-psychotherapist/81c11478-9af5-42df-b129-e4091f31603d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Adult Mental Health Services - Tower Hamlets Directorate - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: none. - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (none) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T12:55:11.565Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/CAMHS_Family_Systemic_Psychotherapist/CAMHS_Family_Systemic_Psychotherapist-v8358330 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8358330?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Family and Systemic Psychotherapist Band 8a (1 WTE hours) - (WTE) sessions in the Emotional and Behavioural Team, 0.2 (WTE) sessions in the Neurodevelopmental team and 0.2 (WTE) sessions in WAMHS in City and Hackney CAMHS. This post is a Family and Systemic Psychotherapy post based in a specialist clinical team within City and Hackney CAMHS providing services to young people and their families with time shared between the Emotional and Behavioural Pathway, Neurodivelopmental Pathway and WAMHS (when there is a service need). The post holder will spend the majority of their time as part of a Tier 3 CAMHS community-based post, located within the Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) pathway in City & Hackney CAMHS, the East London NHS Foundation Trust and as part of the wider Hackney CAMHS Alliance. The post holder will need to have Neurodiversity experiance. Apart of the role will also be supporting the Neurodiversity pathway. The post holder will be offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care including a range of assessment and treatment options such as individual, parenting, family therapy and group based interventions, as well as specialist CAMHS advice/consultation and liaison with other agencies. When there is a service need, the post holder will be asked to be a part of the Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools (CWIS) team one day a week. ### Main duties of the job FULL JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHED The post holder will be a specialist and experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with a substantial knowledge of the field of child and adolescent mental health. The post holder will possess strong engagement skills, the ability to work creatively in relation to Emotional and behavioural and Neurodiversity challenges, and work effectively with complex multi-agency networks. It would be highly desirable for applicants to have experience of working with children with Neurodiversity difficulties, risk management and have experience of working and consulting in schools. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will have a high degree of professional autonomy, and will be expected to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities You will join a warm and experienced, multi-disciplinary team of clinicians – working together with Clinical Psychologists, Systemic Psychotherapists, Nurses, Educational Psychologists, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Child Psychotherapists and CBT therapists. Our team provide a variety of comprehensive specialist assessments and evidence-based therapeutic interventions, including individual approaches (e.g. CBT, DBT, EMDR, IPT-A, VIG and psychotherapy), systemic and family work (e.g. Family Therapy clinics, ABFT, parenting and narrative approaches), and group work (e.g. Non Violent Resistance and our outreach Boxing group). As part of the wider Hackney CAMHS Alliance, we also work closely with our partner agencies (including statutory and voluntary organisations) to provide specialist advice, consultation and multi-agency responses. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS - Knowledge of relevant research and literature relating to child development/ and systemic therapy ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of mental health problems - Experience of working in partnership with Education/ in Education settings ### Qualifications **Essential** - Prior qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession such as Social Work, Clinical Psychology, Nursing or Counselling - Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy or AFT agreed equivalent ## Documents - [elft strategy 2026 (pdf, 421.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3090) - [elft staff benefits (pdf, 653.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3107) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [elft staff benefits leaflet new (pdf, 465.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3106) - [jd and ps for systemic psychotherapist b8a (pdf, 288.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10684629) - [job advert for systemic psychotherapist b8a (pdf, 80.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10684630) ## 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.