Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term Temporary or secondment)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-8008378-A
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Giles CMHT
- Town
- Camberwell
- Salary
- £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of HCAs pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Psychological Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 8a Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist to work with our STEP (Southwark Team for Early Psychosis). This is our Early Interventions for Psychosis (EIP) service, offering a psychological therapy service to patients and their networks. This is a fixed term temporary position for 12 months.
We currently have two part time vacancies (2 or 3 days per week) and welcome applications either from staff looking to work part time (one post) or fulltime (both posts). One position is covering a secondment and the other is a newly created position to help reduce waiting times and create a more response psychological therapy service.
We are looking for a motivated clinician who is passionate about working in an early intervention service with people with a diagnosis of psychosis and with their families and networks. The successful applicant will have good engagement skills, think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of skills in working collaboratively alongside others. Southwark is a racially and ethnically diverse borough and we are looking for a clinician who can work with cultural humility and will actively support our anti-racism agenda.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will contribute to the work of the STEP team providing direct and indirect psychological therapeutic interventions for patients, groups and families. Direct, evidence-based, interventions include CBT for psychosis, trauma-focussed CBT, EMDR, CBT-based family interventions, Open Dialogue, Systemic Family Therapy and Arts Therapies. Our longest waiting times are for CBT and trauma-focussed interventions - tf-CBT and EMDR, and we welcome applicants who are skilled in these approaches.
Within Southwark we offer psychological therapies on a stepped-care basis, therefore group work, and supporting the delivery of low intensity interventions, are also part of the role.
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To provide a specialist psychological interventions for the STEP team including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
· To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
· To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a specialist for the STEP team.
· To promote service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
· To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
· To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
· To support staff support initiatives within their area, working with senior colleagues and, Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy, where appropriate, to support colleagues and ensure staff in SLaM have access to evidence based support. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • To have undertaken a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions, e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology, medicine, social work and occupational therapy OR to have equivalent relevant experience and demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field in the NHS.
- • Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration. (A/I)
- • Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (specify options required by the post) through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice–based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher. (A/I/R)
- • Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC/UKCP/BABCP(A/I)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in services for people with psychosis and other complex mental health difficulties
- • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature including, but limited to, psychosis and substance misuse.
- • Experience of supervising assistants and trainees having completed the relevant training.
- • Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment – CBT for psychosis and the application of CBT to work with patients with other complex mental health difficulties and co-morbid substance misuse.
- • Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.
- • Advanced knowledge of the theory of psychological therapy and it’s therapeutic application. • Associated awareness of assessment and clinical psychometrics
- • Knowledge of a range of a range of therapeutic ideas/approaches systemic models in assessment and treatment relevant to discipline
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials
- • Consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups and sensitively managing, a number of people’s needs simultaneously within the context of therapeutic work/consultation
- • Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour
- • Ability to manage highly complex situations involving multiple difficulties, and competing/conflicting views about those difficulties; and to help create contexts that develop systemic engagement, and harness the strengths and abilities of those involved in order to work towards solutions
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charlotte Snape
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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