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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 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 8B Lead Systemic Family Psychotherapistto 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:
Provide clinical and professional leadershipfor systemic family therapy across the borough.
Work collaboratively with senior clinicians across disciplinesto develop and enhance systemic therapy pathways. Provide appraisals and supervisionof systemic family therapists, ensuring high standards of practice. Lead and facilitate discipline meetings, and contribute to termly CPD programmesin 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 trainingaligned with systemic practice and specialist areas. Play a key role in shaping policy and service developmentlocally and across Trust-wide CAMHS forums. You will work autonomously within professional guidelines, while collaborating closely with the Barnet CAMHS Clinical Lead, Generic Team Manager and wider Senior Leadership Team.
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:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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 description Job responsibilities
Interested?
If you are a motivated and experienced systemic family psychotherapist ready to take on thisleadership role, we strongly encourage you to apply.
For full details, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specificationattached to the advert.
To discuss the post please contact Emma Fassett - Generic Team Manager
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS Essential
Professional qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline or agreed Association of Family Therapy (AFT) equivalent An AFT recognised four year training leading to a qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy. United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registration (Systemic) Specialist training in supervision that has led to 'approved' clinical supervisor status
Desirable
Training in teaching systemic psychotherapy Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice Management training
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 speciality where the post is located. Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families. 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 .
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.
SKILLS Essential
Advanced skills in using a wide variety of systemic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional groups. Advanced knowledge of and skill in using a wide variety of systemic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting Advanced skills in professional supervision; skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues. Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups Advanced ability to multi-task at different levels of context, while leading and supervising a systemic psychotherapy clinical/training practicum requiring intense concentration and skills for using a one-way screen , video equipment and involving members of from different professional background in service delivery simultaneously Advanced Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues Knowledge of research methodology consistent with systemic practice Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
Desirable
Advanced skills in professional supervision to meet UKCP requirements Advanced Skills for offering live supervision to multi-disciplinary colleagues
Knowledge Essential
Advanced Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues Knowledge of research methodology consistent with systemic practice Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
Desirable
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the adults and mental health. Knowledge of current psychological evidence base and best practice in working with adults.
OTHER 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 age 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 AFT and UKCP.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address Oak Lane Chilldren Centre
Oak Lane
East Finchley
N2 8LT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)