Systemic Family Psychotherapist lead | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Systemic Family Psychotherapist (Band 8B)

Barnet CAMHS – North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)

Are you ready for the next step in your career as a Lead Systemic Family Psychotherapist?

Would you like to join awarm, welcoming, inclusive, and diverse team within Barnet CAMHS, committed to delivering high-quality care to children, young people, and families?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for aBand 8B Lead Systemic Family Psychotherapist to work across Barnet CAMHS teams, based atOak Lane Clinic (East Finchley) andEdgware Community Hospital.

Barnet CAMHS is a multidisciplinary 0–18 service providing care for children and young people experiencingmoderate to severe emotional and mental health difficulties, includingcomplex presentations and neurodevelopmental needs. Our approach iscompassionate, creative, flexible, evidence-based, and systemically informed, with a strong focus on supporting families and carers.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this senior leadership role, you will

· Provideclinical and professional leadership for systemic family therapy across the borough.

• Work collaboratively withsenior clinicians across disciplines to develop and enhance systemic therapy pathways.
• Provide appraisals and supervision of systemic family therapists, ensuring high standards of practice.
• Lead and facilitatediscipline meetings, and contribute totermly CPD programmes in partnership with Trust-wide systemic leads.
• Deliver and supportreflective practice, grounded in trauma-informed care principles.
• Overseefamily therapy clinics and student placement clinics, in collaboration with the Tavistock and IFT.
• Contribute toclinical governance, service development, and quality improvement, including audits and research.
• Develop and delivertraining aligned with systemic practice and specialist areas.
• Play a key role in shapingpolicy and service development locally and across Trust-wide CAMHS forums.

You will work autonomously within professional guidelines, while collaborating closely with theBarnet CAMHS Clinical Lead, Generic Team Manager and wider Senior Leadership Team.

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.

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

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.

Interested?

If you are a motivated and experienced systemic family psychotherapist ready to take on this leadership role, we strongly encourage you to apply.

For full details, please refer to theJob Description and Person Specification attached to the advert.

To discuss the post please contact Emma Fassett - Generic Team Manager

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Jun 2026