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Lead Systemic Family Psychotherapist (Band 8B)
Barnet CAMHS – North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)
Are you ready for the next step in your career as a Lead Systemic Family Psychotherapist? Would you like to join a warm, welcoming, inclusive, and diverse 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 8B Lead Systemic Family Psychotherapist to work across Barnet CAMHS teams, based at Oak Lane Clinic (East Finchley) and Edgware Community Hospital.
Barnet CAMHS is a multidisciplinary 0–18 service providing care for children and young people experiencing moderate to severe emotional and mental health difficulties, including complex presentations and 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 senior leadership role, you will:
- Work collaboratively with senior clinicians across disciplines to develop and enhance systemic therapy pathways.
- Provide appraisals and supervision of systemic family therapists, ensuring high standards of practice.
- Lead and facilitate discipline meetings, and contribute to termly CPD programmes in partnership with Trust-wide systemic leads.
- Deliver and support reflective practice, grounded in trauma-informed care principles.
- Oversee family therapy clinics and student placement clinics, in collaboration with the Tavistock and IFT.
- Contribute to clinical governance, service development, and quality improvement, including audits and research.
- Develop and deliver training aligned with systemic practice and specialist areas.
- Play a key role in shaping policy and service development locally and across Trust-wide CAMHS forums.
- Provide clinical and professional leadership for systemic family therapy across the borough.
You will work autonomously within professional guidelines, while collaborating closely with the Barnet CAMHS Clinical Lead, Generic Team Manager and wider Senior Leadership Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Interested?
If you are a motivated and experienced systemic family psychotherapist ready to take on this leadership role, we strongly encourage you 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
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This advert is for Systemic Family Psychotherapist lead with Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £72,719 - £83,505 Per annum Including HCAS. The contract type is Permanent: N/a. The application deadline is 21 Jun 2026.
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