Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, Barnet CAMHS

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Barnet CAMHS – North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)

Are you looking for a qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist post? Would you like to join a warm, welcoming, inclusive, and diverse generic and neurodevelopemental 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 7 Systemic Family Psychotherapistto work across Barnet Generic CAMHS and the Neurodevelopmental 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.

Interested?

If you are at the beginning of your career as a systemic family therapist this will be a unique opportunity to gain valuable experiences and we hope you will be encouraged 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

Main duties of the job

  • To provide generic CAMHS assessments, formulation and systemically informed therapy to individuals, families or groups, referred to Barnet generic CAMHS and SCAN.
  • To contribute to the Generic CAMHS Family Therapy clinic providing specialist systemic interventions to families
  • To offer systemic consultations on clients’ psychological care to colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services, Local Authority Social Care and the Education setting.
  • To provide initial Neurodevelopmental disorder assessments including screening for ADHD and ASD.
  • To work autonomously and co-operatively while adhering to our professional guidelines and the Barnet CAMHS policies and procedures.
  • To provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues and trainees, dependent on experience.
  • To work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing a systemic lens to assessment and treatment options, as discussed in Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings.

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

  • MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy and professional registration with UKCP

Desirable

  • Post-qualification training in additional specialised areas of clinical practice

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

  • Experience of generic CAMHS assessment and treatment, utilising relevant models of psychological therapies
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with differing presenting problems.
  • Experience of working with children and young people in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area.
  • Experience with routine outcome monitoring.
  • Experience of work in multidisciplinary team/multi-agency contexts
  • Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting.

Desirable

  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience in enabling service user participation
  • Experience of assessment and treating children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential

  • Skills in the use of general Mental Health assessments and ability to provide systemic and family psychotherapy
  • Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
  • Masters level knowledge of systemic research literature in relation to the field of child and adolescent mental health.
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families.
  • Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
  • Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies
  • Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff
  • Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression or the threat of physical aggression
  • Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time
  • Skills in using IT, including MS office applications, electronic clinical record systems

Desirable

  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential

  • An ability for team working, excellent interpersonal skills and written and verbal skills, importance of a positive “can do” attitude and a positive attitude to change
  • Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Essential

  • A commitment to service user participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organization High level of enthusiasm and motivation
  • Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision
  • Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
  • Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships

Desirable

  • Awareness and understanding of emotional distress/mental health problems drawn from personal experience

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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).

Closing Date: 28 July 2026

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