Highly Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist | North London NHS Foundation Trust 260

Are you looking for an opportunity to build on your experience as a Senior Family Therapist or step up to such a role? If so, we have a great opportunity for an experienced and dynamic Systemic Family Psychotherapist who has passion for CAMHS and innovative ways of working and who wishes to develop leadership and management skills.

This post is an integral part of the service with varied and exciting opportunities. You will be part of the Family Mental Health Team (FMHT), a CAMHS provision within the Child and Family Unit at NLFT. You will offer clinical and line management supervision for junior members of staff including qualified Systemic Family Therapists (SFT), Systemic Family Practitioner (Recruit to Train) Traineeand MA SFT students on placement with FMHT. You will have a leadership role in the systemic discipline in the team and oversee the allocations of systemic family therapy cases to M6 (MA in SFT) clinics in the Family Mental Health Team.

You will be offering consultation to colleagues and network.

You will attend referrals meetings and provide support to junior clinicians with intake work.

You will provide direct clinical input to children, young people and their parents/carers. As a senior clinician you will be providing services to clients presenting with a high level of risk and complexity in a multi-agency environment.

As one of the senior members of the team, you will work alongside other senior staff and contribute to the team’s development, as we continue to strive to be an accessible, responsive and innovative service with patient care and patient experience at its heart. There will be a number of opportunities to develop your leadership and strategic skills with support from senior colleagues.

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/

Please find attached Job description and person specification for more details about the roles and responsibilities of the vacancy.

This advert closes on Tuesday 5 May 2026