Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Southwark PCMHT secondary care Psychology and Psychotherapy (P&P)team.
The P&P team consists of Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Clinical Associates, Mental Health Well Being Practitioners, Honorary/Trainee Therapists and Psychology Trainees. This well established supportive team, and as a service we provide Schema therapy, Trauma (EMDR, NET, CBT) treatments, Psychodynamic psychotherapy, Family and Couple therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. In addition to these we provide several group interventions at Step 2 (Managing Emotion, Young Adults CAT) and Step 3(CSA, Tree of Life Trauma), training and supervision to other clinicians in SLAM.
Psychological thinking and reflection is encouraged and highly valued in the team.
The successful post holder will be required to work closely with the modality leads and the community service leads in the PCMHT.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual, with leadership skills and specialism in trauma work. The post holder is required to have a keen interest in developing culturally sensitive interventions for the diverse populations in Southwark.
The post holder will be responsible for managing the trauma pathway and the stepped care model of care.
The post holder will have an overview of the waiting lists in other modalities and facilitate and support the referrals meeting.
Main duties of the job
To provide leadership for the stepped care model of care in Southwark.
To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a comprehensive Trauma-focused and Trauma-informed service to adults in Southwark and to personally provide highly specialist clinical input.
To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe and trauma-informed environment.
To provide managerial and clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as the trauma therapy lead and leading on the development and delivery of the stepped-care programme in the community teams.
To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other trauma therapists within Southwark community teams.
To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
To work as an autonomous professional within relevant professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional leads and to decide how they are best achieved..
About us
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. 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 description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
To lead on the development of stepped care in Southwark and to develop and deliver effective stepped care interventions for clients with emotion regulation difficulties.
To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist trauma-informed psychological therapy service to clients with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, crisis and contingency plans, and interventions for clients in the community teams; providing adherent NET, CBT and EMDR, and developing and delivering shorter-term psychological interventions for clients in the CMHTs as part of a stepped-care approach.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To act as a CPA co-ordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings.
KR 2 Responsibilities for team or service clinical functioning
To lead on the development of a model of Stepped Care in Southwark including working with senior clinicians from other services/treatment modalities to develop and deliver an effective joined-up stepped care pathway.
To co-ordinate (and chair) meetings regarding stepped care provision and meetings regarding pathways for these clients into accessing psychological support in secondary care.
To take a lead in ensuring a psychologically-informed framework for the stepped care model of treatment for clients in the secondary care CMHTs.
To take a lead in developing the services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
To advise other members of the service and other parts of the pathway on specialist (trauma- informed) psychological care of complex clients.
To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members, including ensuring the delivery of NICE-concordant interventions.
Policy and service development
To implement policies and procedures in the service and further develop treatment pathways for clients with trauma, as agreed with clinical/professional leads.
To identify any aspects of the service which could be improved and propose changes to practices or procedures that affect the service.
To initiate and implement service development projects, as agreed with clinical/professional leads.
To participate in the ongoing implementation of new initiatives (e.g. national guidelines) across relevant services.
To lead the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
KR 4 Care or management of resources
To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.
To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
KR 5 Management and supervision
To lead on the development of the stepped care pathway and ensure that appropriate management and supervision is in place at all points of the pathway.
To provide clinical leadership to more junior psychologists and psychotherapists and other professionals, as appropriate.
To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists.
To ensure effective supervision of trainee applied psychologists, as appropriate.
To contribute to the appraisal of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists, as appropriate.
To contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists, as appropriate.
KR 6 Teaching and Training
To contribute to occasional specialised training to other professions and services as appropriate.
To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the psychological therapies by maintaining and sharing an active awareness of current developments in trauma therapy, and the emerging evidence-base for psychological treatments and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
To deliver training on trauma-informed principles to clinicians in CMHTs in Southwark.
To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance
To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry, in those parts of the service for which the post-holder has leadership responsibility.
KR 8 Research and development
To provide expertise in a specialist research area which will contribute to the psychological therapy.
To initiate and implement the development of outcome measurement and assessment and assist other staff in the implementation of same.
To contribute to the development of both trauma therapy provision and the stepped care pathway in Southwark through initiating and carrying out appropriate QI, research and audit.
To disseminate research and service evaluation findings to clinicians the service, including in the stepped care pathway as appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
To lead on the development of stepped care in Southwark and to develop and deliver effective stepped care interventions for clients with emotion regulation difficulties.
To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist trauma-informed psychological therapy service to clients with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, crisis and contingency plans, and interventions for clients in the community teams; providing adherent NET, CBT and EMDR, and developing and delivering shorter-term psychological interventions for clients in the CMHTs as part of a stepped-care approach.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To act as a CPA co-ordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings.
KR 2 Responsibilities for team or service clinical functioning
To lead on the development of a model of Stepped Care in Southwark including working with senior clinicians from other services/treatment modalities to develop and deliver an effective joined-up stepped care pathway.
To co-ordinate (and chair) meetings regarding stepped care provision and meetings regarding pathways for these clients into accessing psychological support in secondary care.
To take a lead in ensuring a psychologically-informed framework for the stepped care model of treatment for clients in the secondary care CMHTs.
To take a lead in developing the services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
To advise other members of the service and other parts of the pathway on specialist (trauma- informed) psychological care of complex clients.
To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members, including ensuring the delivery of NICE-concordant interventions.
Policy and service development
To implement policies and procedures in the service and further develop treatment pathways for clients with trauma, as agreed with clinical/professional leads.
To identify any aspects of the service which could be improved and propose changes to practices or procedures that affect the service.
To initiate and implement service development projects, as agreed with clinical/professional leads.
To participate in the ongoing implementation of new initiatives (e.g. national guidelines) across relevant services.
To lead the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
KR 4 Care or management of resources
To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.
To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
KR 5 Management and supervision
To lead on the development of the stepped care pathway and ensure that appropriate management and supervision is in place at all points of the pathway.
To provide clinical leadership to more junior psychologists and psychotherapists and other professionals, as appropriate.
To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists.
To ensure effective supervision of trainee applied psychologists, as appropriate.
To contribute to the appraisal of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists, as appropriate.
To contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists, as appropriate.
KR 6 Teaching and Training
To contribute to occasional specialised training to other professions and services as appropriate.
To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the psychological therapies by maintaining and sharing an active awareness of current developments in trauma therapy, and the emerging evidence-base for psychological treatments and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
To deliver training on trauma-informed principles to clinicians in CMHTs in Southwark.
To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance
To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry, in those parts of the service for which the post-holder has leadership responsibility.
KR 8 Research and development
To provide expertise in a specialist research area which will contribute to the psychological therapy.
To initiate and implement the development of outcome measurement and assessment and assist other staff in the implementation of same.
To contribute to the development of both trauma therapy provision and the stepped care pathway in Southwark through initiating and carrying out appropriate QI, research and audit.
To disseminate research and service evaluation findings to clinicians the service, including in the stepped care pathway as appropriate.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of having designed and delivered stepped care psychological interventions.
- Extensive experience of having delivered Trauma-focused therapies.
- Evidence of having supervised clinicians in the delivery of EMDR.
- Extensive experience of working with clients with Complex PTSD.
Desirable
- Record of publications in either peer reviewed, academic or professional journals/books
- Experience of working psychologically with refugees and asylum seeker
Qualifications
Essential
- EMDR Accredited
- (Psychologist) Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent and Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or (Adult Psychotherapist) equivalent training and UKCP registered Adult Psychotherapist
- Additional training in CBT through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, OR an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma.
- Completed training course in clinical supervision.
Desirable
Knowledge / Skills
Essential
- Advanced knowledge regarding stepped care psychological interventions.
- Well-developed skills in working collaboratively with other clinicians and services to develop new pathways and services.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of EMDR.
- Highly developed knowledge PTSD and the evidence base for treatment
Desirable
- Record of publications in academic or professional journals/books.
- Ability to develop and use complex multimedia materials for groups, presentations in public, professional and academic meetings.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of having designed and delivered stepped care psychological interventions.
- Extensive experience of having delivered Trauma-focused therapies.
- Evidence of having supervised clinicians in the delivery of EMDR.
- Extensive experience of working with clients with Complex PTSD.
Desirable
- Record of publications in either peer reviewed, academic or professional journals/books
- Experience of working psychologically with refugees and asylum seeker
Qualifications
Essential
- EMDR Accredited
- (Psychologist) Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent and Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or (Adult Psychotherapist) equivalent training and UKCP registered Adult Psychotherapist
- Additional training in CBT through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, OR an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma.
- Completed training course in clinical supervision.
Desirable
Knowledge / Skills
Essential
- Advanced knowledge regarding stepped care psychological interventions.
- Well-developed skills in working collaboratively with other clinicians and services to develop new pathways and services.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of EMDR.
- Highly developed knowledge PTSD and the evidence base for treatment
Desirable
- Record of publications in academic or professional journals/books.
- Ability to develop and use complex multimedia materials for groups, presentations in public, professional and academic meetings.
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).
