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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

About

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Contact

Address: Trust Head Office; West Wing; CEME Centre; Marsh Way; Rainham; Essex; RM13 8GQ
Contact Number: 0300 300 1530

Find out more

Jobs Website

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Ref: 395-PP130-25 Vacancy ID: 7524400

CAMHS Systemic Family Therapist

Accepting applications until: 27-Oct-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 27-Oct-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Child and Adolescent Family Centre
Address: 79 Axe Street
Town: Barking
Postcode: IG11 7LZ
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Part time
Job share
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 p.a plus HCAS (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 8a)

Specialty

Main area: Psychotherapist

Interview date: 10/11/2025

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To act as an autonomous professional fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g UKCP, AFT).

• To use an expert clinical understanding in assessing, jointly with colleagues in the multi- disciplinary team, children, adolescents and their families in order to formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment plan

• To work alongside other colleagues in CAMHS in order to provide an in-depth comprehensive assessment of the child’s, young person’s, and family’s functioning where there is a constellation of high dysfunction and entrenched difficulties in the family.

• To clinically lead this process in the CAMHS team as a member of the senior team leadership structure

• To provide highly specialist therapeutic interventions with due regard to issues of cultural, racial and religious difference and sexual orientation

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.

Use of AI

Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Successful completion of a post-graduate training in therapy practice (e.g. Systemic Family Therapist fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. UKCP/AFT) and further qualified to master’s level or equivalent (degree, diploma and supplemented by specialist training, experience, short courses)
To be eligible for registration as a full member of the Appropriate professional body

Experience

Essential criteria

Extensive experience of working with difficult, challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions
Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with comorbid difficulties and special needs. (i.e. combination of organic and emotional deficits, such as autistic spectrum disorders and trauma).
Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/familie s of children and young people with complex mental health problems
Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi -disciplinary team
Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.
Experience of specialist assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options
Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with the client group within the service and within related agencies
Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts

Knowledge

Essential criteria

An awareness of NHS Priorities and Issues
Excellent knowledge of emotional, developmental, mental health problems and life span issues.
Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines
Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychological distress
Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation
Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manger as relevant
Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures and guidelines.
Ability to plan and organise own workload and time.
Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work.
Ability to undertake quality improvement projects and audits