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About
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London's population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire.
As a Foundation Trust we involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run and our future development. If you are interested in becoming a member of our Foundation Trust please visit: www.cnwl.nhs.uk
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Family & Systemic Psychotherapist
Closed for applications on: 2-Jun-2026 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 2-Jun-2026 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Harrow CAMHS
- Address
- 322 - 326 Northolt Road
- Town
- South Harrow
- Postcode
- HA2 8EQ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Should be available to work Friday's)
Salary
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 pro rata per annum incl. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Family & Systemic Psychotherapist
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Family & Systemic Psychotherapist (Band 7) with generic CAMHS experience to work within a multi-disciplinary team in Harrow CAMHS.
This is a part-time permanent post and is part of a well established systemic discipline where professional development and innovative work is actively encouraged.
Harrow CAMHS is a very dynamic & friendly service which welcomes new skills and new ideas. It is part of Central & North West London (CNWL) Foundation Mental Health Trust. We are committed to collaborative multi-disciplinary work and there are very good links with partnership agencies in the borough.
The post will be supervised by the Lead Family & Systemic Psychotherapist in Harrow Tier 3 CAMHS and line managed by the Principal/ Lead Systemic and Family Psychotherapist.
Harrow is a culturally diverse borough and we are keen to provide culturally appropriate services to families. We are looking for an enthusiastic systemic therapist who has a good amount of CAMHS experience and is able to integrate quickly into a busy CAMHS team.
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- Provide family assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
- Formulate and implement Care plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young person’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
- Be responsible for implementing a range of family therapy. interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of systemic and family therapy. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need.
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans .
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management.
Working for our organisation
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care in a community setting or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.
With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder,
Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Enhancement Treatment, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a specialist family therapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. Providing specialist family assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non-family therapy colleagues and the professional network involved in their support.
The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.
The post holder will provide generic CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing specialist family therapy interventions and contribute to support plans for the care of children and young people with learning disability, young offenders, refugees and asylum seekers and eating disorders. They will also contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations such as ASD, OCD and Eating Disorders and support case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence-based interventions. They will also undertake parenting capacity assessment as part of a multidisciplinary court assessment service.
The post holder will provide advice and consultation to non-family therapists in the service on family therapy and systemic interventions.
The post holder will provide clinical supervision to trainees and non-family therapists.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Post-graduate family therapy training to MSc level or equivalent.
- • UKCP registration as family therapist
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in additional some CAMHS related specialized work
- Recent Safeguarding children training
- CYP IAPT training
- Qualification in core mental health or social welfare profession (e.g. social work, mental health nursing, psychology, occupational therapy) and significant post qualification experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Newly qualifies significant post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and preferably CAMHS team
- Experience of working with complex cases
- Experience of delivering systemic training to non CAMHS professionals
- Able to deliver parent training and groups
- Experience of developing and delivering clinical training to colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Fluent in an additional language
- Experience in supervising as Family Therapist
Core Competencies
Essential criteria
- Mental Health Assessment: Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and emergency CAMHS assessment
- Mental Health Assessment: Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
- Assessment of risk/safeguarding: Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk
- Assessment of risk/safeguarding: Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
- Engagement: Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
- Engagement: Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication
- Engagement: Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances
- Engagement: Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of CYP IAT
- Engagement: Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
- Family and parenting: work Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
- Cultural: competence Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
- Consultation and Liaison: Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
- Psychoeducation: Able to promote self management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
- Interdisciplinary work: Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rota’s, peer support, training and skills development
- Transition: Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition
- Professional Development: Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Family and parenting work Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
Mental Health Assessment
Essential criteria
- Mental Health emergency CAMHS assessment.
Specialist Competencies
Desirable criteria
- Experience of running parenting groups (triple p, mellow, Webster Stratton, etc) and other types of group work group such as multi- family group
Administration and Record Keeping
Essential criteria
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel): Able to use word and excel to write reports and analyse and present basic data
- Clinical Recording Systems Competent in the use of clinical recording systems such as SYSTMONE. Understands the process for keeping safe, secure and relevant clinical records
- Email and Communication Able to use email to support effective communication in line with CNWL policy. Able to use Microsoft PowerPoint and other communication methods to support the delivery of high quality, engaging training and presentations
Desirable criteria
- European Computer
- Use of SYSTMONE
- Use of COMMIT and other related CYP IAPT recording
Attitude, Aptitude and Personal Characteristics
Essential criteria
- Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
- Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
- Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
- Honesty, enthusiasm and a sense of loyalty
- Conducts self in a professional, courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment
Other
Essential criteria
- Understands and able to implement and promote the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job
- Understands and can apply confidentiality and information sharing policy and procedure
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eleanor Osman
- Job title
- Principal Systemic and Family Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8869 4500
- Additional information
Additional contact information
Team Manager - Viola Nakimuli - [email protected]Harrow CAMHS - 020 8869 4500
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