"Systemic Family Practice Tutor (Eating Disorders Pathway)"

About us:

Child and Young People’s Psychological Trainings (CYP-PT) are a national suite of service transformation and new workforce programmes led and contracted by NHS England Workforce, Training & Education (NHSE-WTE), of which a large part is training for managers, supervisors, and therapy practitioners in delivering evidenced based, accountable therapies. Students are staff from the NHS, Local Authority and Voluntary Organisations. The CYP-PT programmes follow National Curricula.

The Post Graduate Diploma in Therapies, including Systemic Family Practice is a highly specialist one-year full-time professional training programme, based in the Department of Psychology, School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences (MHaPS), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London (KCL). The Systemic Family Practice strand of the programme is accredited by the Association of Family & Systemic Psychotherapy as an Intermediate level training.

The programme is based at the Denmark hill campus and teaching on the programme is a mix of online and face to face lecture and small tutor groups.

The role is to work with a small group of systemic trainees on the Eating Disorders pathway, and is therefore open to UKCP registered Family and Systemic Psychotherapists who have extensive experience in working in Eating Disorders services with children and adolescents.

About the role:

The role is to work with a small group of systemic trainees on the Eating Disorders pathway, and is therefore open to UKCP registered Family and Systemic Psychotherapists who have extensive experience in working in Eating Disorders services with children and adolescents.

Teaching will be delivered through lectures and practice tutor groups with smaller groups of students, where students will bring video recordings of their clinical work or role play practice. The tutor will work with a group of usually 6 students to review recordings of their clinical work and develop their systemic skills through feedback and discussion. A competencies framework is used to support trainees to self monitor their skills acquisition, and also as a structure for formative and summative assessment of clinical skills in assignments.

The post holder will meet weekly with the Module Lead and other systemic tutors to discuss relevant issues such as any concerns relating to students’ academic or clinical work and general welfare. The post holder will also conduct formative and summative assessments of clinical practice, including marking, and moderation of assignments by the dates agreed, and attending marking workshops and regular group supervision sessions with other tutors.

The post holder will also be a personal tutor for a number of trainees. In this role the post holder will meet termly with their personal tutees as a group, and will be available to meet with personal tutees individually where required. The personal tutor role involves sign-posting students to relevant sources of support (welfare and academic) within working hours.

The post-holder will also have a role as academic tutor to provide academic support for trainees where required.

This is a part time post (10% FTE; 3.5 hours per week) and you will be offered a contract for 1 year.

The earliest possible start date is 3rd March 2026.

About you:

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

Essential criteria

1. UKCP Registered Family & Systemic Psychotherapist
2. Association of Family and Systemic Psychotherapy approved Systemic Supervisor
3. Extensive clinical experience as a Family & Systemic Psychotherapist in an Eating Disorders Service with children and young people
4. A good working knowledge of multi-agency liaison in clinical settings
5. A flexible and enthusiastic team member, who is accustomed to working independently
6. A good working knowledge of safeguarding, child protection policies and good practice
7. Knowledge and experience providing systemic clinical supervision
8. Experience of group teaching

Desirable criteria

1. Experience tutoring/teaching on clinical training programmes in a higher education setting

Grade and Salary: £74,613 per annum pro rata, including London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 136165

Close Date: 03-Feb-2026

Contact Person: Isabelle Caillol

Contact Details: Isabelle.caillol@kcl.ac.uk