Job summary
- Main area
- Psychotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 260-TP-934
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 Per annum including Inner London
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Highly Specialist Clinician (Family Therapist) and Senior Lecturer
NHS AfC: Band 8a
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
We are excited to announce a new and unique opportunity to join our team in a dual role for a Highly Specialised Systemic Family Psychotherapist and a Senior Lecturer. This newly created position offers the chance to contribute both clinically and academically within a dynamic and multidisciplinary environment.
The successful candidate will bring advanced expertise in systemic and family psychotherapy to deliver high-quality therapeutic services, working with individuals, couples, and families across a range of complex cases. Simultaneously, they will hold a key academic role within our teaching faculty, contributing to the delivery, and development of postgraduate training programmes in systemic practice and related disciplines.
As a Senior Lecturer, the postholder will demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching excellence, research, and clinical supervision. This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and innovative practitioner-educator to influence both service delivery and professional training, while advancing the field of systemic psychotherapy.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Post
The post holder will hold a complex caseload within the multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a range of clinical assessments and offering highly skilled treatments or therapies that are outcome focused, and evidence based, using appropriate therapeutic modalities. You will review cases where patients have impasses, complaints or disputes with their clinical care.
You will provide consultation to external agencies such as GPs/schools/Local authorities and expert consultation and specialist psychological advice to other staff and agencies outside the Trust
The post holder will communicate complex information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, at times dealing with service users who may be hostile or present challenging behaviours.
Senior Lecturer Role
The position of Senior Lecturer has been introduced to enable flexible delivery within a portfolio of courses, and where appropriate, across portfolios. It aims to facilitate the post holder in implementing a wide range of skills within an integrated post. At senior level, the post holder will be required to undertake a leadership role in relation to an aspect of course delivery such as module leadership; assessment; recruitment etc.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Working for our organisation
Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve. The Trust aims to ensure that all job applicants, employees or clients are treated fairly and valued equally regardless of sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, domestic circumstances, age, race, colour, disablement, ethnic or national origin, social background or employment status, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, HIV status, gender identity, political affiliation or trade union membership. Selection for training and development and promotion will be based on the individual’s ability to meet the requirements for the job. You are responsible for ensuring that the Trust’s policies, procedures and obligations in respect of promoting equality and diversity are adhered to in relation to both staff and services.
Hours of duty: 37.5 hours per week
Annual leave: 27 days per year pro rata – minimum (this increases
depending on the length of NHS service)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Highly Specialist Clinician and Systemic and Modal Portfolio
Essential criteria
- Systemic and Family Psychotherapist Masters Level Qualification
- Registration with AFT and UKCP as a Systemic & Family Psychotherapist.
- UKCP and AFT registered Systemic Psychotherapist and supervisor.
- Appropriately qualified to teach the discipline at the required academic level.
- Evidence of substantial clinical experience of working with client population.
- Some experience of clinical supervision, particularly within a Family Therapy Clinic.
- Capacity to engage students from a wide range of educational, cultural and social backgrounds and ensure issues of equality, diversity and inclusion are attended to across all aspects of role.
Desirable criteria
- A Professional Doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy
- Some experience of clinical management of staff
- Experience of doctoral supervision preferably with one or more completions.
- Experience of quality assurance, academic governance and the student experience
- Experience of doctoral examining
- Experience in record of writing for publication and engaging in scholarly activity.
- Understanding and experience of research and supervision of projects addressed to questions of equity, equality, diversity, inclusion, disadvantage, discrimination etc
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
- Natalino Putzu
- Job title
- Principal Systemic Psychotherapist
- Telephone number
- 07927 590819
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