Senior Family and Systemic Psychotherapist (Perinatal)
| Posting date: | 05 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £64,156.00 to £71,148.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64156.00 - £71148.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, NW1 0PE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9455-26-0070 |
Summary
Hold a caseload of highly complex systemic assessment, treatment, and consultation work, drawing on a range of systemic models and research-based evidence. Provide highly specialist systemic psychotherapy interventions for mothers, birthing people, babies, partners, and families, including couples and groups. Work inclusively with families from diverse racial, cultural, and family backgrounds, including single parents, same-sex couples, extended families, and those involved with social care. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering complex and sometimes conflicting factors within family and professional networks. Engage with routine outcome measures and contribute to service-user participation agendas. To work with service users with complex perinatal mental health needs; to identify their goals using specialist assessment and interventions tools. To work in a variety of settings e.g., home, clinics and within the local community. To liaise with the wider multi-disciplinary team when there are concerns regarding the well-being of the parent and the child. To follow trust Adult & Child Protection process and strategies. To work with families who have children under Childrens Social Care; contributing to care plans and working within trust guidelines. To ensure accurate and concise record keeping for service users and interaction with their babies. To communicate effectively using a variety of communication skills: verbal and non-verbal, written, and electronic, with a range of individuals and organisations within and external to the organisation. To establish and maintain effective working relationships with members of the MDT using excellent interpersonal skills. To update clinical skills regularly to ensure the highest delivery of care whilst recognising own limitations. To recognise and promote all aspects of cultural diversity and respond positively to ethnic awareness / sensitivity when planning care plans within supervisory framework. To attend clinical meetings including perinatal birth planning meetings, child in need meetings and child protection meetings when required To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee clinical and counselling psychologists, and, where required, of assistant psychologists or other staff providing low intensity interventions. Provide highly specialised professional supervision (including live supervision) to systemic psychotherapists, systemic practitioners, and other professionals within the service and partner agencies. Deliver training placements and assess competencies for a range of professional disciplines. Develop and implement systemic training opportunities and bespoke training plans for staff, based on best practice and evidence.