Consultant Clinical Psychologist or Psychotherapist

at  South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary
We are seeking a Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist able to lead the delivery of Psychological Therapies within Lewisham’s Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) and Early Intervention in Psychosis service.
The post will suit a practitioner with well-developed NICE guideline-based expertise in the provision of Psychological Therapies for severe mental health problems. In addition to providing leadership and expert level supervision for a team of senior Psychological Therapists, participation in service design and delivery of a stepped care framework provide opportunities for bringing innovation to the community treatment of psychosis and complex mood and anxiety disorders.
We are also seeking a practitioner who can contribute to supporting Lewisham’s integrated CMHTs by enabling both trauma informed care and provision of psychologically informed practice by a multi-disciplinary workforce. The service is attempting to improve access to psychological approaches based on Long Term Plan ambitions and the Patient & Carers Race Equalities Framework (PCREF).
Main duties of the job
To lead, manage and plan the delivery of a highly specialist psychological therapy service and personally provide expert clinical input to Lewisham CMHTs.
To be responsible for the monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of psychological therapy and for the systematic and effective provision of professional supervision.
To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
To ensure the conduct of research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the service and the research agenda
To be responsible for the good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of psychological practitioners in the service.
To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures, and interpret these and be responsible for their implementation within the service areas of responsibility.
To take a lead on staff support within their area, working closely with Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy to support colleagues and ensure all staff in SLaM have access to evidence-based support. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
About us
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.
By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care.
Job responsibilities
This post will take a lead role in ensuring the delivery and development of the provision of psychological services within Lewisham CMHTs and the Specialist Early Intervention Service. The post holder will be responsible to the Directorate Head of Psychology & Psychotherapy, for the monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of applied psychology for the Lewisham CMHTs and Early Intervention Service and for the systematic and effective provision of line management, clinical and professional supervision as required. The post holder will provide expert clinical input for individuals within the services including psychological assessment and/or treatment within the pathways. The post holder will work autonomously within professional practice and Trust guidelines and will ensure that allocated human and financial resources are used effectively where appropriate.
The post holder will ensure that Trust Psychology & Psychotherapy and other policies, standards and directorate targets for mental health services for individuals with a diagnosis of psychosis and mood and anxiety disorder and their carers are being met within the Directorate.
The post has a lead role in proposing and implementing policy and service development and to lead on service evaluation, QI and research. The post holder will both lead and contribute to specific Directorate-wide and non-psychology specific projects as may be identified and negotiated.
As a highly specialist and lead clinician the post holder will ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist and high quality service to clients and their carers with severe and enduring mental health problems and/or complex presentations. The post holder will work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team providing clinical expertise in the provision of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Family Interventions, individually formulated psychological therapy, and evidence based interventions for individuals with psychosis and mood and anxiety disorders, offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to other psychological therapists and community team members.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
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.
Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (CBT- SMHP) 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
Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline
Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC/APC/BPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP/ADMP-UK
Experience
Essential
Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in psychosis and with mood and anxiety disorders
Experience of undertaking leadership roles
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in psychosis and with mood and anxiety disorders
Experience of supervising qualified psychologists/psychotherapists assistants and trainees having completed the relevant trainin

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