# Systemic Family Psychotherapist (Band 8a) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/systemic-family-psychotherapist-band-8a/74acd9af-65d7-47fa-b990-17d15a4a672b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/systemic-family-psychotherapist-band-8a/74acd9af-65d7-47fa-b990-17d15a4a672b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Pancras Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 per annum including HCAS (pro-rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent: N/a - **Employment type:** Part time - 22 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-20T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-06T20:01:18.596Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Edgware/North_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Family_Therapy/Family_Therapy-v8222413 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8222413?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Would you like to join a warm, welcoming, inclusive, and diverse core generic 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 8a Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapist to work across Barnet Generic CAMHS 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. ### Main duties of the job What You’ll Be Doing In this role, you will: - 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 to clinical governance, service development, and quality improvement, including audits and research. - Develop and deliver training aligned with systemic practice and specialist areas. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties. ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing views about those difficulties, and take a lead in creating contexts that develop systemic rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions. Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Ability to assess and manage risk. Ability to recognise and challenge any form of discrimination. - Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing views about those difficulties, and take a lead in creating contexts that develop systemic rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions. Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Ability to assess and manage risk. Ability to recognise and challenge any form of discrimination. Ability to identify and employ methods of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by AFSP and UKCP. Ability to be part of the recruitment process and ### education **Essential** - Professional qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline or agreed Association of Family & Systemic Psychotherapy (AFSP) equivalent. An AFSP recognised four year training leading to a qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy. United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registration (Systemic) **Desirable** - Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice Specialist training in supervision that has led to accredited clinical supervisor status ### Experience **Essential** - Minimum four years practice in relevant first profession. Assessed experience of working as a qualified systemic family psychotherapist for a minimum of three years, including at least 3 years post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located. Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families when a child as complex needs - Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan - Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at the acute and chronic stage. Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families Experience of risk assessment and risk Experience of using outcome measures. Experience of involving service users. **Desirable** - Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages. Experience of teaching, training &/or supervision. Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts. Experience of developing services. ## Documents - [jd and person spec (pdf, 816.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10531173) - [a comprehensive guide for candidates (pdf, 544.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2959) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 816.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10531171) - [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. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.