Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (9am-5pm)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0487
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Baytree House
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
8a Family Systemic / Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist / Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an innovative energetic child psychotherapist or Family Systemic Psychotherapist to our growing under 5’s provision. The postholder will be part of a newly formed under 5s team, undertaking complex specialist assessments, formulating, managing risk, providing specialist interventions, teaching and consultation to partner agencies. This post is based in Enfield and is funded by LB Enfield’s Family Hubs programme. Responsibilities will include working with the Social Care and Looked After Children’s team to offer specialist consultation and provide interventions for vulnerable families and children referred by the Family Hubs Teams.
Main duties of the job
To provide generic mental health and specialist mental health assessments of children and their families/carers referred to the 0-5 team, drawing on a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures and rating scales, as well as direct and indirect clinical observations and clinical interviews with children, family members and others involved in the child’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child and their family’s mental health needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
To reflect upon assessments and treatment formulations adjusting and refining them, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
To be responsible, in consultation with the Clinical Pathway Lead, for implementing a range of interventions for children and their families/carers, within and across teams, appropriate to your specialism (psychodynamic/psychoanalytic or systemic psychotherapy)
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
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
The postholder will be aligned with our Values:
· We Are Kind
· We Are Respectful
· We Work Together
· We Keep Things Simple
· We Empower
· We Are Proudly Diverse
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide the under 5s team with a high-quality evidence based psychotherapeutic or psychological service to children, their families, carers, and professional networks, including assessment and therapy to patients and their families.
To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working both autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. As part of this role, the post holder will work closely with the Enfield Family Hubs to offer consultation to social services colleagues. This aims to offer indirect support to families who are being supported by social care, such as those on child protection or child in need plans, and those supported by the Early Help team.
To provide clinical supervision to Team members as required.
The post holder will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high-quality evidence-based care pathways
Person specification
Educational
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to the introduction of training doctorates) providing membership to the Association of Child Psychotherapists OR Masters degree in Family Systemic Psychotherapy with appropriate registration as a Family Systemic Psychotherapist with AFT/UKC
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in using a wide variety of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic / 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.
- Skills in communicating 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 professional supervision; skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional groups and non-professional groups
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of research methodology consistent with Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic or Systemic practice.
- Advanced Skills for offering live supervision to multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Advanced skills in professional supervision to meet ACP requirements.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Must have significant experience of working as a qualified Family Systemic or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, including experience within the designated specialty where the post is located (0-5 CAMHS).
- Experience of specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic/ Systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families.
- Experience of specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic/ Systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic/ Systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of the application Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic psychotherapy/ Family Systemic Psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at the acute and chronic stage.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages.
- Experience of developing services.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janis Griffiths
- Job title
- Service Lead, CAMHS Integrated Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 4716
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