Highly Specialist Clinician (Family Therapist) and Senior Lecturer

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)