King's College London

About Us

The IoPPN is a Faculty of King's College London and the largest academic community in Europe devoted to the study and prevention of mental illness and other conditions that affect the brain. The IoPPN's greatest strength is the interdisciplinary nature of both its research strategy and educational activities, providing unique opportunities for students and staff.

IoPPN webpage: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/index.aspx    

 The IoPPN’s clinical psychology training programme takes CBT as its main therapeutic modality, and family therapy/systemic practice as the second key modality. An important strength is the very comprehensive range of both local and national specialist placement opportunities, across three world-renowned NHS Trusts: South London and Maudsley, King’s College Hospital and Guy’s & St Thomas’ – known collectively as King’s Health Partners. The programme, in partnership with King’s Health Partners NHS Trusts, aims to train clinical psychologists who embody the scientist-practitioner ideal and who can go on to become effective NHS leaders. Another strength is the vibrant and diverse communities within South East London, and the programme values and positively promotes diversity and inclusion.

At King’s we are deeply committed to embedding good culture, equality and diversity practice into all of our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work and study. We welcome applications from psychologists with characteristics who are under-represented within the University and local NHS Trusts at senior levels, including those from a racial/ethnic minority background, who have a disability, and/or LGBTQ+.

Link to Programme descriptions:

https://www.clearing-house.org.uk/courses/courses-z/ioppn-kings-college-london/about-programme 

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/areas/doctorate-in-clinical-psychology-dclinpsy 

Department of Psychology:

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/mental-health-and-psychological-sciences/about/departments/psychology

About The Role 

The DClinPsy Lead for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice is a leadership role on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN).  The post-holder will provide leadership and oversight of the DClinPsy programme’s Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (AFT) pathway and accreditation processes. The programme is accredited for all trainees at AFT Foundation and has applied for accreditation for Intermediate Level for a subset of trainees.

 The post-holder will work closely with other members of the programme team to ensure that the programme maintains its current excellent standards of governance, teaching, and clinical training.  They will make a key contribution to the quality assurance and accreditation processes for the programme. They will report to the DClinPsy Programme Director. They manage a family therapy/systemic practice tutor and contribute to supervision of the Senior Programme Officer who works on the AFT pathway.

This is a part time post (7Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Registered or eligible to register as a family/systemic therapist with the UKCP and for membership of the UKCP’s College of the Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy. 
2. Knowledge of the AFT Foundation and Intermediate accreditation requirements.
3. Experience of teaching on a UK DClinPsy programme or other UK psychological professional training programme involving family therapy/systemic practice training.   
4. Experience of supervising clinical psychology or family therapy/systemic practice trainees on clinical placements. 
5. Significant clinical experience working in the NHS in the UK and providing family therapy/systemic practice in the NHS. 
6. Strong commitment to supporting culture, equality, diversity and inclusion.
7. Skills and experience in leadership, project management and strategy implementation.
8. For clinical psychologise applicants: registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC). For other applicants: registration with appropriate professional organisation. 
9. Availability to work flexible hours, as teaching/supervision/meetings take place on Fridays (generally) and some Wednesdays  

Desirable criteria

1. Doctoral level professional qualification in Clinical Psychology (e.g. DClinPsy) or Systemic Practice 
2. Approved Systemic Supervisor status through having successfully completed an AFT accredited Systemic Supervision Course or via APEL route (accreditation of prior experience and learning route) 
3. Experience of working on a DClinPsy training programme or other professional training programme in the UK involving family therapy/systemic practice training.
4. Experience of undertaking assessments for therapists in relation to AFT accreditation.
5. Undertaking and publishing research relevant to clinical psychology, in peer-reviewed journals. 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information 

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages