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Main area
Recruit to Train Systemic Practitioner
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 1 year (1 year FTC)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (May be required to work at our outreach clinic in Bounds Green N11 2PA)
Job ref
260-TP-1010
Employer
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Town
London
Salary
£46,419 - £55,046 Per annum including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/10/2025 23:59

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Recruit to Train CAMHS Clinician / Systemic Family Practitioner (SFP)

Band 6

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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Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of 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

The Family Mental Health Team (FMHT) has an exciting opportunity for a Recruit to Train Trainee Systemic Practitioner (conduct) to join our team as part of the NHS England (NHSE) funded Children and Young People (CYP) Psychological Training Programmes (formerly CYP-IAPT).

 

Recruit to Train is a government-funded initiative aiming to grow the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand. To help reach this goal, NHSE covers salary and training costs for a 1-year post, allowing services to employ trainees to aid in implementing new or expanding existing specialist pathways to bridge the gaps in CYP mental health support.

 

You will be committed to the CYP Psychological Training Programme core principles: Accessibility, accountability, participation, awareness and evidence-based practice and in providing an inclusive and effective service for children and young people

 

 

You will only be offered a KCL training place if you are successful in securing this post and you meet the university training requirements (such as academic background, relevant experience, visa approval). As you also apply for a training course that is delivered by King's College London, your data may be shared with them for the purpose of processing your application (shortlisting) and enrolling you onto this Programme.

Main duties of the job

The Family Mental Health Team (FMHT) is a CAMHS  team working with children and families aged up to 18. We are an MDT providing a range of group and individual interventions to parents and young people with a variety of mental health presentations (anxiety, low mood, challenging behaviours, including more complex and chronic mental health presentations). FMHT provides evidence-based 1:1, group and parenting interventions to children and families.

This is a unique opportunity to apply your learning from weekly teaching into practical clinical interventions working with clients in the service making a direct impact in the lives of children, young people and their families.

The post holder will hold an appropriate training case load and complete the necessary assignments to meet the course requirements.

 

Please note: The PT programme is not a standalone CYP MH training course. The programme requires potential candidates to apply for both the University led training course and the role within a participating mental health service.

 

Next Steps

If you are interested in this training, you can find out more information here CYP-PT Therapy PGDip (Recruit to Train (RtT))

 

Application Process

• To apply online go to https//apply.kcl.ac.uk

• Please do contact [email protected] for any queries

Working for our organisation

The Tavistock and Portman is caring, compassionate and committed to co-creating the care and training we offer. We are passionate about the quality of our work and committed to openness, the use of evidence and the application of improvement science. We value all our staff, are concerned for their wellbeing, and seek to foster leadership, innovation and excellence in our workforce. We embrace diversity in our workforce and work to make our services and training as accessible as possible. We have made a firm commitment to being an anti-racist, anti-homophobic and anti-transphobic organisation. We work with others, in the UK and internationally, who share our values and can enable us to achieve our mission.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the application guidance and course brochure attached for full information and instructions on how to apply and what to include in your application.

Please ensure you address each point in the person specification in your application.

Please note that due to the high number of applications we may need to bring forward the closing date, so do apply early to avoid disappointment.

Tavistock Family Mental Health Team application deadline:  31st October 2025 

KCL Application Deadline:  Tuesday 25th November 2025

Teaching will begin on: Monday 19th January 2026

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level.
  • Minimum second-class bachelor’s degree from a UK University or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, counselling, social work, mental health nursing, occupational therapy, etc).
  • A registerable professional qualification (e.g. clinical or educational psychology, social work, counselling, mental health nursing, occupational therapy etc)
  • Applications MAY be considered from those who do not have a registerable professional training if they have at least 3 years’ experience in a CAMHS or equivalent setting and can demonstrate equivalence through the RPL (recognition of prior learning) process

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children and young people

Experience

Essential criteria
  • At least two years experience of working with children / young people in a mental health setting
  • Experience of working with safeguarding issues
  • Experience of multi agency working and liaising across internal & external agencies.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with children, young people, and their families
  • Ability to maintain a reflective stance in emotive/challenging interactions with children and their families
  • Ability to use supervision to reflect on practice
  • Ability to organise own time and diary
  • Ability to follow policy and make proposal for change
  • Ability to maintain accurate records
  • Capability to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level, including IELTS or equivalent to the appropriate level for students with English as a foreign language (BAND D) https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/entry-requirements/english-language.aspx
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of evidence based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nsimire Bisimwa
Job title
Senior Systemic Family Psychotherapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8938 2568
Additional information

This is a dual application process.   In addition to applying for this position with us, you must also complete a KCL application for the Course Team to review. The Course Team will liaise with us on whether you meet the academic requirements for the course during the recruitment process.

 

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