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Job summary

Main area
AHP
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0087
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Baytree House
Town
Enfield
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 Base rate per annum (pro-rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/06/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Family Systemic Psychotherapist OR Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being 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 and proactive Child Psychotherapist or Family Systemic Psychotherapist to our growing under 5’s provision.

The postholder will be part of newly formed 0-5 BEH CAMHS, undertaking complex specialist assessments, formulating, managing risk, providing specialist interventions, teaching and consultation to partner agencies.  Part of your role will be delivering support via LB Enfield's Family Hubs programme, working in the community to support vulnerable children under 2 years old and their families, and offering consultation to professionals such as social workers.

Main duties of the job

To provide BEH 0-5 CAMHS with a high-quality evidence based Systemic, or Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic, 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.
 
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.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking to recruit an innovative and proactive Child Psychotherapist or Family Systemic Psychotherapist to our growing under 5’s provision.

The postholder will be part of newly formed 0-5 BEH CAMHS, undertaking complex specialist assessments, formulating, managing risk, providing specialist interventions, teaching and consultation to partner agencies.  Part of your role will be delivering support via LB Enfield's Family Hubs programme, working in the community to support vulnerable children under 2 years old and their families, and offering consultation to professionals such as social workers.

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

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into health

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Leonie Lee-Carbon
Job title
Tri-Borough Under 5s Clinical Pathway Lead
Email address
[email protected]
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