Job summary
- Main area
- Southwark Operational Directorate
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Fixed term or secondment
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-7565248-SA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chaucer resource centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Community Practitioner
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 pleased to announce a rewarding opportunity for nurses, occupational therapists, and social workers to join the Primary Care Mental Health Team (PCMHT) based at Chaucer Resource Centre.
You will be part of a dynamic, fast-paced multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively to deliver short-term care coordination. The team includes:
Band 7 Senior Practitioners
Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurses (CPNs)
Occupational Therapists
CAMHS Transitional Practitioners
Medical Team (2 Consultants & 2 Junior Doctors)
Lived Experience Workers
Psychology and Psychotherapy Professionals
This role offers a unique opportunity as senior member of staff to contribute to an innovative service model, providing high-quality mental health care within a supportive MDT environment.
We welcome applications from passionate and experienced professionals who are ready to make a meaningful impact.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities
Conduct expert comprehensive initial assessments and develop psychological formulations for service users.
Manage a caseload, delivering appropriate psychological interventions for individuals experiencing transitional mental health challenges.
Exercise autonomous clinical judgment (under supervision) in the assessment, coordination, and transfer of service users to appropriate treatment pathways.
Provide ongoing assessment and outcome monitoring for all clients on your caseload.
Participate in the team’s duty rota.
Liaise effectively with crisis services and emergency out-of-hours teams to ensure continuity of care.
Deliver evidence-based interventions in line with NICE guidelines.
Training & Supervision
Attend regular clinical and managerial supervision sessions, as well as annual appraisals.
Contribute to the teaching and training of mental health professionals and other staff within the service.
Provide mentorship and support to students undertaking placements within the team.
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Knowledge and Expertise
Strong understanding of how mood, anxiety, and personality disorders present and affect mental well-being.
Demonstrated psychological skills and knowledge transferable to working with adults experiencing severe, enduring, and psychotic disorders in secondary care settings.
Clear understanding of the interface between primary and secondary mental health services.
Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of psychological therapies, with particular expertise in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
In-depth understanding of psychopathology and the evidence base underpinning relevant treatment approaches.
Familiarity with key legislation and statutory responsibilities, including Adult Safeguarding, Child Protection, and Clinical Governance frameworks.
Professional Skills
Ability to work autonomously while engaging in appropriate clinical and managerial supervision.
Effective time management and workload prioritisation skills.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain healthy working relationships within and beyond the team.
Skilled in giving and receiving constructive feedback.
High standard of written communication, including clear and professional report and letter writing.
Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and foster positive team dynamics.
Resilience under pressure and capacity to use supervision to support clinical practice.
Competence in managing sensitive clinical issues and providing supervision to others.
Commitment to ongoing professional development, reflective practice, and partnership working.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions.
- Mentorship Training /998 Other professional development, particularly within psychological modalities.
- Degree standard or professional equivalent.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience at Band 6/7 in PCMHT, psychiatric liaison service, home treatment team or community mental health team.
- Experience of using clinical and managerial supervision to effectively provide safe, evidence based psychological interventions across a range of interventions
- Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of how mood, anxiety and personality difficulties manifest itself and the impact on mental well-being.
- Transferable psychological skills and knowledge relevant to work with working age adults with severe and enduring & psychotic disorders in secondary care.
- Knowledge of modalities of therapy. An understanding of the relationship between primary and secondary care services. Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies, particularly DBT and CBT
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to contribute to research and evaluation
- IT skills
- Group work experience
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
- Mark Turner
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 228 9488
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