Job summary
- Main area
- LTC Lead / Senior CBT Therapist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7098765
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lambeth (various locations)
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of inner HCAs pro rata if part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
LTC Clinical Lead - Lambeth Talking Therapies
Band 8a
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
Lambeth NHS Talking Therapies is looking to recruit a part-time 2 days/week) LTC team lead with key responsibilities around planning, managing and evaluating the delivery of the long-term health conditions pathway and services within Lambeth NHS Talking Therapies
You will work closely with the rest of the management team to promote and support the delivery of the service.
We are a friendly, supportive and innovative team of individuals. We are committed to supporting the development of our staff who come and work for us by providing high quality supervision and opportunities for development.
Main duties of the job
The post:
· To coordinate and assist in further developing the Lambeth Talking Therapies (IAPT) LTC pathway and service aimed at the delivery of specialist psychological assessment and therapy for adults with anxiety and depression in the context of various long-term conditions and delivery of integrated LTC care.
· To facilitate and manage the Long-Term Conditions Working Group
· To attend monthly LTC IAPT lead meetings/ Mental Health Transformation meetings and disseminate information linked to this
Working for our organisation
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
- Access to SLaM counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Staff restaurants
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
· To coordinate and assist in further developing the Lambeth Talking Therapies (IAPT) LTC pathway and service aimed at the delivery of specialist psychological assessment and therapy for adults with anxiety and depression in the context of various long-term conditions and delivery of integrated LTC care.
· To facilitate and manage the Long-Term Conditions Working Group
· To attend monthly LTC IAPT lead meetings/ Mental Health Transformation meetings and disseminate information link to this
· To work collaboratively with other IAPT LTC leads and King’s Health Professionals in relation to sharing knowledge
· To provide high quality supervision using specialist knowledge of LTC conditions
· To provide high quality training or facilitate the arrangement of LTC training
· To develop and adapt IAPT protocols and ways of working with LTC consideration and NICE guidelines in mind
· To support the service leads by sharing responsibility of the day to day running of the non-LTC parts of the service
· To take a lead role in the day to day running of the Long-Term conditions (LTC) part of the service
· To monitor, collect, analyse, evaluate and disseminate LTC condition data on performance and outcomes.
· To set up and operationally manage integrated clinics
· To work collaboratively with the service lead/deputy service lead to implement service developments / new initiatives
· To support the clinical leads in maintaining a strong, committed and motivated team
· To support clinical (team) leads in expanding this project by being involved in recruitment and training of new staff members, and then continue to support the clinical lead in maintaining a strong, committed and motivated team
· To support the induction of new staff with a view of supporting new staff members to have LTC in mind.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology (and HCPC registration) and having completed an IAPT HI CBT course, OR, High intensity (HI) therapist, having completed an IAPT CBT course
- BABCP practitioner full accreditation
- To have completed King’s College London’s Long Term Conditions in IAPT course
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within an IAPT service, as a qualified HI
- Specialist experience in adapting treatments for clients with Long Term Conditions who present with depression and a range of anxiety disorders
- Experience of supervising high intensity therapists/CBT therapists/PWPs
- Specialist experience in setting up integrated clinics, and working as part of an NHS Talking Therapies integrated clinic
Management experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of contributing to service development and improvements (2=managed service function, 1=project)
Quality of application
Essential criteria
- High ( well-written, comprehensive, refs to Lambeth IAPT and own development needs) Medium (Well-written, IAPT refs) Low (mistakes, omissions, generic application)
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
- Nina Levi
- Job title
- Deputy Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07885202142
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