Systemic Family Psychotherapist (Band 8a)

Job summary

Would you like to join a warm, welcoming, inclusive, and diverse core generic teamwithin 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 Psychotherapistto work across Barnet Generic CAMHS team, based at Edgware Community Hospital.

Barnet CAMHS is an increasing diversemultidisciplinary 0-18 service providing care for children and young people experiencing moderate to severe emotional and mental health difficulties, including complex presentations anda range ofneurodevelopmental 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 trainingaligned with systemic practice and specialist areas.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.