Job summary
We are excited to announce a new and unique opportunity to join our team in a dual role for a Highly Specialised Systemic Family Psychotherapist and a Senior Lecturer. This newly created position offers the chance to contribute both clinically and academically within a dynamic and multidisciplinary environment.
The successful candidate will bring advanced expertise in systemic and family psychotherapy to deliver high-quality therapeutic services, working with individuals, couples, and families across a range of complex cases. Simultaneously, they will hold a key academic role within our teaching faculty, contributing to the delivery, and development of postgraduate training programmes in systemic practice and related disciplines.
As a Senior Lecturer, the postholder will demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching excellence, research, and clinical supervision. This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and innovative practitioner-educator to influence both service delivery and professional training, while advancing the field of systemic psychotherapy.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Post
The post holder will hold a complex caseload within the multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a range of clinical assessments and offering highly skilled treatments or therapies that are outcome focused, and evidence based, using appropriate therapeutic modalities. You will review cases where patients have impasses, complaints or disputes with their clinical care.
You will provide consultation to external agencies such as GPs/schools/Local authorities and expert consultation and specialist psychological advice to other staff and agencies outside the Trust
The post holder will communicate complex information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, at times dealing with service users who may be hostile or present challenging behaviours.
Senior Lecturer Role
The position of Senior Lecturer has been introduced to enable flexible delivery within a portfolio of courses, and where appropriate, across portfolios. It aims to facilitate the post holder in implementing a wide range of skills within an integrated post. At senior level, the post holder will be required to undertake a leadership role in relation to an aspect of course delivery such as module leadership; assessment; recruitment etc.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
About us
Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve. The Trust aims to ensure that all job applicants, employees or clients are treated fairly and valued equally regardless of sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, domestic circumstances, age, race, colour, disablement, ethnic or national origin, social background or employment status, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, HIV status, gender identity, political affiliation or trade union membership. Selection for training and development and promotion will be based on the individual's ability to meet the requirements for the job. You are responsible for ensuring that the Trust's policies, procedures and obligations in respect of promoting equality and diversity are adhered to in relation to both staff and services.
Hours of duty: 37.5 hours per week
Annual leave: 27 days per year pro rata - minimum (this increases
depending on the length of NHS service)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Systemic and Family Psychotherapist Masters Level Qualification.
- Registration with AFT and UKCP as a Systemic & Family Psychotherapist
- Appropriately qualified to teach the discipline at the required academic leve
Desirable
- UKCP and AFT registered Systemic Psychotherapist and supervisor.
- A Professional Doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of substantial clinical experience of working with client population.
- A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face.
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders.
- Expertise of managing and treating the client group.
- Experience of systemic clinical supervision, particularly within a Family Therapy Clinic.
- Substantial experience of teaching students in higher education.
- Post qualification experience as required by the relevant professional and regulatory body (will need over 2 years postqualification to undertake Systemic Supervisor Training).
- Experience of academic research and supervision, as required by the Trust and/or relevant validating body.
- Understanding and experience of research and supervision of projects addressed to questions of equity, equality, diversity, inclusion, disadvantage, discrimination etc.
Desirable
- Some experience of clinical management of staff
- Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
- Experience of doctoral supervision preferably with one or more completions.
- Experience of quality assurance, academic governance and the student experience
- Experience of doctoral examining
- Track record of writing for publication and engaging in scholarly activity
Skills
Essential
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management.
- Ability to manage own clinical case load.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and ability to convey complex ideas in clinical, teaching and learning environments with flexibility, agility and creativity.
- Capacity to engage students from a wide range of educational, cultural and social backgrounds and ensure issues of equality, diversity and inclusion are attended to across all aspects of role.
- Able to manage own time, and plan workload of administration team members effectively, to ensure completion of tasks.
- Able to analyse complex problems and develop practical and workable solutions to address them
- Able to effectively build and manage constructive relationships with clinical team, faculty, staff and students; encouraging an open dialogue with team members. To be a team player.
- High level of attention to detail and awareness of the relevant regulations, policies and procedures applicable to the clinical and academic nature of the role.
- Proficiency in the use of a range of Microsoft Office Programmes to Intermediate levels including advanced keyboard skills.
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
Knowledge
Essential
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
- Knowledge and understanding of psychoanalytic/ systemic approaches to health and social care and organisations.
- Contemporary understanding of relevant theoretical and practice frameworks in health and social care.
- Commitment and aptitude to explore opportunities for digital innovation in pedagogy and develop personal digital capabilities.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential
- Able to prioritise, work independently and on own initiative.
- Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues - within clinical and teaching domains.
- Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude.
- Ability to work effectively within a team.
- Able to multi-task and set goals for completion.
- Ability to remain calm and work well whilst under pressure.
- Ability to demonstrate commitment to own personal development.
- Flexible approach to working hours to meet Service's needs
OTHER
Essential
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Systemic and Family Psychotherapist Masters Level Qualification.
- Registration with AFT and UKCP as a Systemic & Family Psychotherapist
- Appropriately qualified to teach the discipline at the required academic leve
Desirable
- UKCP and AFT registered Systemic Psychotherapist and supervisor.
- A Professional Doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of substantial clinical experience of working with client population.
- A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face.
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders.
- Expertise of managing and treating the client group.
- Experience of systemic clinical supervision, particularly within a Family Therapy Clinic.
- Substantial experience of teaching students in higher education.
- Post qualification experience as required by the relevant professional and regulatory body (will need over 2 years postqualification to undertake Systemic Supervisor Training).
- Experience of academic research and supervision, as required by the Trust and/or relevant validating body.
- Understanding and experience of research and supervision of projects addressed to questions of equity, equality, diversity, inclusion, disadvantage, discrimination etc.
Desirable
- Some experience of clinical management of staff
- Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
- Experience of doctoral supervision preferably with one or more completions.
- Experience of quality assurance, academic governance and the student experience
- Experience of doctoral examining
- Track record of writing for publication and engaging in scholarly activity
Skills
Essential
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management.
- Ability to manage own clinical case load.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and ability to convey complex ideas in clinical, teaching and learning environments with flexibility, agility and creativity.
- Capacity to engage students from a wide range of educational, cultural and social backgrounds and ensure issues of equality, diversity and inclusion are attended to across all aspects of role.
- Able to manage own time, and plan workload of administration team members effectively, to ensure completion of tasks.
- Able to analyse complex problems and develop practical and workable solutions to address them
- Able to effectively build and manage constructive relationships with clinical team, faculty, staff and students; encouraging an open dialogue with team members. To be a team player.
- High level of attention to detail and awareness of the relevant regulations, policies and procedures applicable to the clinical and academic nature of the role.
- Proficiency in the use of a range of Microsoft Office Programmes to Intermediate levels including advanced keyboard skills.
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
Knowledge
Essential
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
- Knowledge and understanding of psychoanalytic/ systemic approaches to health and social care and organisations.
- Contemporary understanding of relevant theoretical and practice frameworks in health and social care.
- Commitment and aptitude to explore opportunities for digital innovation in pedagogy and develop personal digital capabilities.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential
- Able to prioritise, work independently and on own initiative.
- Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues - within clinical and teaching domains.
- Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude.
- Ability to work effectively within a team.
- Able to multi-task and set goals for completion.
- Ability to remain calm and work well whilst under pressure.
- Ability to demonstrate commitment to own personal development.
- Flexible approach to working hours to meet Service's needs
OTHER
Essential
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
