Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Must Include Wednesday)
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-8179036
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Jeanette Wallace House
- Town
- Croydon
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inclusive of HCAs (outer) pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
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 pleased to be recruiting to a 7 Psychodynamic Psychotherapist post (0.6 wte) to join the psychodynamic modality of our multi-modality therapy team in secondary care. The post holder will be clinician practicing individual psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults with moderate-severe mood, anxiety and personality disorders. The post holder will ideally have experience of NHS secondary care adult mental health work.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will hold a caseload of psychodynamic psychotherapy cases, delivering assessment and individual psychodynamic psychotherapy. The post holder will work as part of the therapies team as well as providing link in work to an identified Neighbourhood multi-disciplinary team providing consultation to other professionals in their work.
Working for our organisation
The successful applicant will work alongside other Psychodynamic psychotherapists delivering assessment and therapy. They will also work alongside psychotherapists offering Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Clinical/Counselling Psychologists offering CBT, tf-CBT, Schema informed therapy and EMDR, as part of this well-established multi-modality team. The post holder may supervise psychodynamic honoraries. The team is based in central Croydon (Jeanette Wallace House) and face-to-face sessions are provided at this base and at other Croydon sites. Wednesdays are an essential team day.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological interventions, specifically individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy to adults in secondary care with moderate to severe mood, anxiety and personality disorders including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To provide clinical psychodynamic supervision and consultation as appropriate.
- To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
- To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
- To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
- Experience of assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature, specifically individual psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults presenting with moderate to severe mood, anxiety and personality disorder presentations.
- 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 adults presenting with moderate to severe mood, anxiety and personality disorder presentations.
Desirable criteria
- A personal therapy experience of sufficient intensity, depth and duration to be able to work psychotherapeutically with complex secondary care level cases.
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.
- To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers (and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews where appropriate).
- Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
- 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.
- Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- To have undertaken a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions, e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical 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. 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. (A/I) Additional training beyond entry level qualification in a specialised area of psychodynamic psychotherapy practice such as a further training working with Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma through formal post-qualification training or a combination of specialist short courses and/or 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 Postgraduate Diploma or higher. (A/I) For Psychologists: · Entry-level qualification in Applied Psychology (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level additional training) that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration. (A/I) (for a job requiring specific professional qualification(s), change this point to specify the required qualification(s): Clinical psychologist: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent; Counselling psychologist: MSc and PG Diploma in Counselling Psychology; Forensic psychologist: MSc in Forensic Psychology plus completion of the British Psychological Society’s Qualification in Forensic Psychology Stage 2) For Family / Systemic Psychotherapists: Post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice in this field (A/I) PLUS Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy or equivalent qualification, accredited by UKCP (A/I) For Psychotherapists: Entry-level qualification in Psychotherapy that has been accepted by the APC/BPC/ACAT/UKCP/BACP/BABCP (specify which, according to nature of post) for purposes of professional registration. (A/I) (for a job requiring specific professional qualification(s), change this point to specifythe required qualification(s). For Arts Therapists: Masters Degree (or equivalent) in Arts Therapy or Dance Movement Therapy. (or specify Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Dramatherapy or Dance Movement Therapy)
- Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC/APC/BPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP/ADMP-UK.
Desirable criteria
- Additional training in psychodynamic/psychoanalytic supervision to certificate/diploma standard
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment of adults with moderate to severe mood, anxiety and personality disorders using psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- Knowledge of the theory of psychological therapy and it’s therapeutic application. Associated awareness of assessment and clinical psychometrics.
- 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.
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
- Caroline Sutcliffe
- Job title
- Principal Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3228 0321
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