Job summary
This post provides input for service users and their families/carers in the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team. The Early Intervention Team works with people with first episode of psychosis, aiming to minimise the impact of the consequence of psychosis and to support recovery through the provision of recovery focused and enabling care

Main duties of the job
A psychological therapies service across all sectors of care in line with qualifications in the person specification, providing:

• Highly specialist assessment
• Direct provision of systemic psychotherapy and other systemic intervention (consultation, brief systemic intervention, group work) in addition to the range of psychological therapies covered by NICE guidelines and the National Standards for Early Intervention (including CBT, and other models and model-informed treatments) to individuals, families, networks, and community groups.
• Joint delivery of intervention with other members of the EIS team to assist engagement.
• Joint therapeutic work with other colleagues in the EIS Team
• Systemic Input/ Consultation to EIS team and multi-disciplinary meetings.
• Structured internal supervision or consultation groups, and reflective practice.
• Consultation on clients to non-psychological therapist colleagues and to professional and non-professional staff in local mental health services

About us
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:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

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.

Details

• Date posted: 16 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8a
• Salary: £63,665 to £70,887 a year Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 455-NLFT-8235608
• Job locations: Lucas House, Lucas House, Edmonton, N9 0PD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the services policies and procedures
• To maintain a clinical caseload of highly complex and demanding psychological/psychotherapeutic interventions, assessments as well as treatment and consultation, formulating and implementing appropriate treatment plans.
• To provide in specialist systemic assessments to clients referred to the teams based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological and/or systemic intervention/ treatment and/or management of a clients and their familys system of concern, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential

• Qualifications at first degree level and registration with HCPC in a core profession
• Doctoral or master's level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy
• Registered with UKCP as a Systemic and Family Psychotherapist

Desirable

• Relevant qualification / training/experience in the field of treatment and understanding of mental health
• Recognised training or extensive experience in teaching mentorship, supervision

Experience
Essential

• Experience of specialist systemic/psychologically informed assessment and direct clinical work with clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, and primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a variety of patient groups, across the whole life course
• Experience of working with carers and family members
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as a named/key worker and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.

Desirable

• Experience of working with service users and their families/carers presenting with a diagnosis of psychosis
• Experience of systemic research design and methodology, including data analysis.

Skills & Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge of theory, practice, and techniques from a range of specialised systemic and family psychotherapeutic models and evidence of this working with adults with a mental health diagnosis
• Skills in the use of complex methods of systemic/psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the post-holder's professional body

Desirable

• Knowledge of theory and practice of a range of different therapeutic models within psychological therapies

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others

Desirable

• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Lucas House, Lucas House, Edmonton, N9 0PD, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Team Manager, Juliet Osuji, juliet.osuji@nhs.net, 02087023100

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