Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7212834
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 151 Blackfriars road
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 pro rata inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Psychotherapist/Psychologist/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
In Lambeth Secondary Care Psychological Therapies (SCPT) we are reaching across the pathway and into community and primary care settings. Our clinicians provide a range of specialist psychological therapies for mood, anxiety, trauma related and personality difficulties for adults with long-standing and complex mental health difficulties.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced psychological therapist to join us on maternity cover secondment, focusing on close working with our first step of care - our tier 1 team - and with Lambeth's Short Term Support Team, providing clinical care to clients with complex needs, as well as overseeing and assessing new referrals to our service. In addition, the postholder will be working therapeutically in our tier 2 trauma-reliving /complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (cPTSD)reliving therapy pathway offering Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (TF-CBT) or/and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Main duties of the job
The post is based at 151 Blackfriars road, but there is an expectation that the postholder will travel to other sites as needed.
As described above, the postholder will be working in close liaison with the North Short Term Support Team (STS North Living Well Centre) and oversee the SCPT team working within that locality. This includes attending and providing input to STS Multi-disciplinary meetings, Primary Care and Alliance Network meetings, conducting joint assessments and formulations, offering training and supervision to Tier 1 SCPT staff and to STS staff.
The postholder will also work clinically on our tier 2 complex PTSD reliving therapy pathway, co-facilitating preparatory groups including our Trauma Stabilisation Group and our EMDR preparation group, as well as offering assessments and treatment for individual reliving-focused therapy, including TF-CBT and/or EMDR. Local training will in protocols will be provided and relevant supervision is available.
Finally, the postholder will be involved in recruitment of new Tier 1 staff.
Working for our organisation
The second largest inner London Borough with an official population of around 350,000. The local population has needs related to a high level of social deprivation such as unemployment, poor social housing and child poverty. There are also pockets of greater affluence. There are high levels of morbidity, and levels and complexity of mental health problems are above the national average
Lambeth CCG and Lambeth Council want people of Lambeth to have a fully integrated and coordinated mental health system which focuses on people’s strengths and supports their whole health and wellbeing. They have commissioned SLAM NHS as part of the Lambeth Living Well Network (LWN) Alliance to lead, co-ordinate and, in large part, deliver support and services for those experiencing mental health issues in Lambeth.
The Trust: The South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) and committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, and some more specialist services to people from across the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To act, alongside colleagues, as Lead Psychological Therapist for one of the place-based Living Well Centres (North) and the Tier 1 protocolised interventions service, supporting the multidisciplinary team and psychological therapies pathway in the care of complex presentations
· To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions for people with complex mental health presentations. The role will also involve the provision of advice, education and support to service users and their carers or family members as indicated. You will also act as the psychological therapies lead to ensure effective care between the team and the pathway, leading Tier 1 provision. This role also involves providing assessment and intervention for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms in a population with complex emotional needs.
· 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 lead specialist clinician in relevant therapies and the Tier 1 context.
· To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for managing care in these components of the pathway, and across relevant care teams/systems.
· To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
· To work as an autonomous professional within BPS/HCPC/ APC/BPC/UKCP/BACP guidelines and codes of conduct. Guided by principles and policies or procedures of SLaM and the borough, and 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 utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice and/or currently understood best practice-based evidence, in individual work and work with other team members.
· Liaison with external agencies
· Investigations and incidents - lead on informal and formal
· Flow management (Capacity/Demand) for locality
· Ensuring staff stay up to date with developments in field
· Data reporting to senior leadership team, including flagging and problem solving suggestions of difficulties
· The post holder will need to provide visible and effective clinical leadership to the clinical teams they supervise and be skilled in working collaboratively with others.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A First-class or Upper-second-class Bachelors degree with Honours in Psychology that is accredited by the British Psychological Society and confers the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society, or equivalent conferring GBC, including BPS-accredited conversion course.
Desirable criteria
- MSc or PhD in mental health related topic scores 2; Other PG training in Mental health scores 1, no PG training in MH scores 0 (2)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate experience (voluntary or paid) of psychological assessment and/or treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs in people with complex mental health difficulties to be able to develop towards working clinically under close direct supervision.
- Experience of conducting research projects or audits.
- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of developing/supporting and or implementing groups
- Experience working with the electronic patient journey system
Skills
Essential criteria
- Psychological assessment skills
- Verbal and written communication skills - including communicating complex information to complex context
Desirable criteria
- IT and data skills
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
- Hielkje Verbrugge
- Job title
- Co-lead Lambeth SCPT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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