Job summary
Lewisham NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) is a dynamic and innovative, primary care psychological therapies service; one of four Talking Therapies services delivered by South London and Maudsley (SL&M) NHS Foundation Trust.
The service is looking to recruit an experienced psychological therapist who will provide senior expertise on equality and diversity matters and support the senior team with the implementation of the 'Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Service User Positive Practice Guide'; from a strategic and operational perspective.
Main duties of the job
Lewisham Borough is an area of high social and psychological needs with considerable cultural diversity. The service provides psychological care to an ethnically diverse group of patients and the Trust is working to be an anti-racist organisation. Many patients present with multiple problems including social, housing and employment issues, and a wide range of common mental health issues of varying degrees of severity. The successful candidate will take a lead in ensuring the service's ability to deliver accessible and acceptable psychological therapies to our diverse local communities in Lewisham.
About us
The service links with the IAPT training courses at King's College/ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN); University College London and The University of Exeter. We also work with centres of clinical excellence and research innovation such as the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT).
Our motivated staff have engaged with specialised training thus allowing us to offer CBT, CfD, EMDR, DIT, IPT and BCT. Considerable partnership work already exists with our community and we are pleased to hear from applicants who have areas of special interests or skills in leading on this work.
We are a diverse, friendly service that aims to listen to and value our staff and aims to promote opportunities to progress people in terms of their continued professional development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To take a lead in ensuring the services ability to deliver accessible and acceptable psychological therapies to diverse local communities in Lewisham.
- To promote strategies and protocols across the service to decrease racial inequalities, increase access and improve experience and outcomes for psychological therapy for ethnically and culturally diverse members of the Lewisham community.
- To contribute to workforce planning for the service, including staff engagement, recruitment, professional appraisal and staff continuing professional development activities, promoting the active recruitment and development of staff from diverse backgrounds for the staff team to reflect the local communities.
- To support the management team to be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
- To support the clinical leads in the maintenance of a strong, committed and motivated team and sharing responsibility for the day to day running of the service
- To work collaboratively with the clinical leads to implement service developments / new initiatives in line with the Service Diversity & Inclusion Strategy and Service Objectives.
- To model NHS talking Therapies protocols and ways of working in direct clinical workwith NHS TT staff and also in collaboration with allied teams. To provide high quality specialist supervision and training relevant to culturally sensitive therapy models.
- To carry out general line management tasks and focus upon supporting staff to meet performance targets.
- To carry out highly specialist assessments and brief evidence-based psychological therapy, using at least one NICE recommended treatment for anxiety and depression
- To respond to service user complaints and contribute to serious incident investigations
- To be a member of the senior management team and take on work areas/ projects as needed for the overall functioning of the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To take a lead in ensuring the services ability to deliver accessible and acceptable psychological therapies to diverse local communities in Lewisham.
- To promote strategies and protocols across the service to decrease racial inequalities, increase access and improve experience and outcomes for psychological therapy for ethnically and culturally diverse members of the Lewisham community.
- To contribute to workforce planning for the service, including staff engagement, recruitment, professional appraisal and staff continuing professional development activities, promoting the active recruitment and development of staff from diverse backgrounds for the staff team to reflect the local communities.
- To support the management team to be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
- To support the clinical leads in the maintenance of a strong, committed and motivated team and sharing responsibility for the day to day running of the service
- To work collaboratively with the clinical leads to implement service developments / new initiatives in line with the Service Diversity & Inclusion Strategy and Service Objectives.
- To model NHS talking Therapies protocols and ways of working in direct clinical workwith NHS TT staff and also in collaboration with allied teams. To provide high quality specialist supervision and training relevant to culturally sensitive therapy models.
- To carry out general line management tasks and focus upon supporting staff to meet performance targets.
- To carry out highly specialist assessments and brief evidence-based psychological therapy, using at least one NICE recommended treatment for anxiety and depression
- To respond to service user complaints and contribute to serious incident investigations
- To be a member of the senior management team and take on work areas/ projects as needed for the overall functioning of the service.
Person Specification
Education/qualification
Essential
- Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist or High Intensity CBT therapist (BABCP full accreditation) or High Intensity Counsellor, (UKCP or BACP fully accredited) with qualification in an NHS Talking therapies treatment protocol eg IPT, CfD or Post-graduate qualification in low intensity interventions (IAPT) - accredited by BABCP or BPS - PWP Lead- with PWP accreditation
Desirable
Knowledge & experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including ethnically diverse populations in the context of health or mental health presenting with the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of working within an NHS Talking therapies service with managerial responsibilities, with a proven ability to take authority with sound decision making in a fast-paced clinical environment
- Experience and confidence in data management and communicating relevant information within the wider service and other relevant parties.
- Experience of building effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary team colleagues, community partners and other groups committed to reducing health inequalities.
- Experience in clinical supervision and decision making within the stepped care model within an NHS Talking Therapies service.
Desirable
- Experience of driving change in the way services communicates with diverse communities via Communication channels, website, social media.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Skills and ability to act as an advocate for the service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals and with voluntary and statutory agencies
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation and ability to innovate for change within existing structural barriers, both in workforce and service delivery pertinent to EDI issues.
- Ability to work effectively with different cultural and ethnic groups
- Ability to act sensitively, using discretion and empathy on issues which are highly emotive or contentious
- Well-developed IT skills including IAPTus and EPJS, word processing, and data entry/analysis with the ability to create reports and communicate complex information in a clear and useful manner
Person Specification
Education/qualification
Essential
- Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist or High Intensity CBT therapist (BABCP full accreditation) or High Intensity Counsellor, (UKCP or BACP fully accredited) with qualification in an NHS Talking therapies treatment protocol eg IPT, CfD or Post-graduate qualification in low intensity interventions (IAPT) - accredited by BABCP or BPS - PWP Lead- with PWP accreditation
Desirable
Knowledge & experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including ethnically diverse populations in the context of health or mental health presenting with the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of working within an NHS Talking therapies service with managerial responsibilities, with a proven ability to take authority with sound decision making in a fast-paced clinical environment
- Experience and confidence in data management and communicating relevant information within the wider service and other relevant parties.
- Experience of building effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary team colleagues, community partners and other groups committed to reducing health inequalities.
- Experience in clinical supervision and decision making within the stepped care model within an NHS Talking Therapies service.
Desirable
- Experience of driving change in the way services communicates with diverse communities via Communication channels, website, social media.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Skills and ability to act as an advocate for the service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals and with voluntary and statutory agencies
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation and ability to innovate for change within existing structural barriers, both in workforce and service delivery pertinent to EDI issues.
- Ability to work effectively with different cultural and ethnic groups
- Ability to act sensitively, using discretion and empathy on issues which are highly emotive or contentious
- Well-developed IT skills including IAPTus and EPJS, word processing, and data entry/analysis with the ability to create reports and communicate complex information in a clear and useful manner
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
