Job summary
- Main area
- Applied Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7378137
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Lind Clinic
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
We are looking to recruit an experienced or newly qualified Psychotherapist/Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work therapeutically in our psychodynamic pathway. This post plays a pivotal role in delivering specialist psychological care to adults with complex mental health needs. The post is located in Lewisham Integrated Therapies team, Lewisham and works closely with community mental health teams.
Main duties of the job
To work under the supervision of a Senior Psychotherapist in the team, to deliver psychodynamic therapies to those presenting with complex emotional needs. To supervise trainees, honorary and other junior staff. To offer consultations and other input to community mental health teams.
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.
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see The Job description document for a more detailed description of the roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • To have undertaken a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions, e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical/counselling 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.
Desirable criteria
- Further training in Psychodynamic models of therapy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of assessment and treatment of clients with a range of a complex emotional needs using psychodynamic models of therapy
- • 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
- • Significant post-qualification/graduation experience including experience of individual and group therapy with people with complex mental health needs
- • Experience of working with issues of risk and safety both physical and relational
- • Experience of multi-disciplinary working and working with community mental health teams
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of the theory of psychological therapy and it’s therapeutic application for those presenting with complex emotional needs. Associated awareness of assessments
- • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities
- • Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.
- • To deliver psychological/psychotherapeutic therapy across cultural and other differences
- • To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information
- • 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
- • To plan allocation of tasks to assistants/trainees as appropriates. Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups
- • To select and administer specialist assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- • 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
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
- Rukeya Khanam
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3288 1350
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