Job summary
- Main area
- Applied Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 9 months (Fixed Term or Secondment - 9 months, with possibility of extension)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7663225
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St. Giles CMHT
- Town
- Southwark
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 per annum Incl. of inner HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: 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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 or 8a Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist (depending on experience) to work for our community services, offering a psychological therapy service to patients within the psychosis pathway. The postholder will be based in the STEP (Southwark Team for Early Psychosis) team for 3 days and in the Dulwich CMHT team for 2 days. This can be for a fixed term contract or secondment for 9 months.
We are looking for a motivated clinician who is passionate about working with people with a diagnosis of psychosis and their families and networks. The successful applicant will have good engagement skills, think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of skills in working collaboratively alongside others. Southwark is a racially and ethnically diverse borough and we are looking for a clinician who can work with cultural humility and will actively support our anti-racism agenda.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will contribute to the work of both the STEP team and the Dulwich CMHT providing direct and indirect psychological therapeutic interventions for patients, groups and families. Direct, evidence-based, interventions include CBT for psychosis, trauma-focussed CBT, EMDR, CBT-based family interventions, Open Dialogue, Systemic Family Therapy and Arts Therapies. We are also piloting culturally sensitive interventions that are based on afro-centric approaches. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of therapies depending on their area of expertise.
Within Southwark we offer psychological therapies on a stepped-care basis, therefore group working and supporting the delivery of low intensity interventions are also part of the role.
Supervision and management responsibilities will depend on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
(Psychologist) Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent and Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or
(Nurse Advanced) Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to master’s equivalent level or
(Social Worker Specialist) Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma in social care, supplemented by further specialist knowledge, for example in needs of a specific client group, experience to Masters equivalent level or
(Occupational Therapist Advanced) Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by further training, short specialist courses, to master’s equivalent level.
In addition to the relevant qualification above:
Registration by the relevant practitioner registering body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, BACP.
Experience
Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature including psychosis.
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.
Experience of developing and carrying out research projects.
Prior experience of working within Early Intervention Services.
Knowledge
Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for Early Intervention in psychosis.
Knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics.
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities.
Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis.
Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.
To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences.
To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
Skills
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 ascase reviews.
To plan allocation of tasks to assistant psychologists.
Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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 UKCP/BABCP (specify which, according to nature of post) for purposes of professional registration. (A/I) 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) • Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (specify options required by the post) 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. (A/I/R) • Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervised qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline. (A/I/R) • Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC/UKCP/BABCP(A/I) • Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional body. (A/I)
- Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC/UKCP/BABCP
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in services for people with psychosis and other complex mental health difficulties
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature including, but limited to, psychosis and substance misuse
- experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment – CBT for psychosis and the application of CBT to work with patients with other complex mental health difficulties and co-morbid substance misuse
- Advanced knowledge of the theory of psychological therapy and it’s therapeutic application
- • Knowledge of racial and other diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care
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
- Administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials
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
- Matthew Richardson
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02032285937
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