Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic innovative Specialist Family Therapist to join the new north Tri-borough 0-5 pathway. The post-holder will be co-located in on the CAMHS teams and have a key role in working with the pathway lead to develop the systemic offer to the pathway.

The 0-5 team provides input to infants, toddlers and preschool children and couples/families in the pre and perinatal periods. This new service will provide a comprehensive range of assessment and therapeutic interventions, and consultation to professionals dealing with infants, young children and families. 

The post-holder will conduct assessments and deliver evidence based systemic psychotherapy for a broad range of presentations between the ages of 0-5. 

The post holder will have a leading role in the pathway and expected to provide clinical supervision to other clinicians and trainees. They will also be expected to provide specialist advice and consultation regarding treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working both autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

Main duties of the job

       To provide mental health and specialist systemic therapy assessments of a significant and complex nature with a view of formulating and implementing plans for the treatment and management of an infant and young child’s presentation within the context of family and other systems. These assessments will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and will employ research-based evidence and information from appropriate rating scales, self-report measure, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care and service user feedback.

          To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual young child, family, or group.

To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic psychotherapeutic interventions. Drawing upon different explanatory models to maintain several provisional hypotheses in reaching a formulation and treatment plan

Working for our organisation

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. 

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.