Practitioner Psychologist/ Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist

NHS; Catford; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job description

Practitioner Psychologist/ Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This is an opportunity to work in a community rehabilitation service provided jointly with Penrose (3rd sector supported housing provider) with clinical input from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in the borough of Lewisham.

The Integrated Community Rehabilitation Service opened in May 2024 and provides specialist enhanced rehabilitation support to adults typically aged 18-65 diagnosed with severe and enduring mental health needs who would benefit from an intensive period of rehabilitation and recovery for a period of 9 months.

The accommodation and support staff are provided by Penrose in two properties located in Lewisham (Catford) which provides a total of 14 beds. SLaM will be providing dedicated medical, occupational therapy, psychology input and the posts will sit within the Lewisham Directorate in SLAM. Although based in the borough of Lewisham, the service will be open to service users from 3 out of 4 boroughs served by SLAM, including Southwark and Croydon.

The service will be used as an alternative to inpatient rehabilitation where possible.

The successful candidate will therefore have a keen understanding of how to work in a rehabilitation setting, have a strong commitment to improving the recovery outcomes of individuals, and enjoy working with stakeholders to support service transformation and innovation.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide a highly specialist psychological interventions according to discipline including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
2. To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
3. To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist.
4. To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
5. To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
6. To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
7. 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.

About us

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training. SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

Job responsibilities

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients (individuals, couples, families and social networks where the identified client has complex mental health needs) according to discipline in SLaMs Integrated Rehabilitation Service including working predominately with psychosis.
2. To provide culturally appropriate psychological or psychotherapeutic interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
3. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
4. To provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families.
5. To select and deliver evidence-based specialist therapeutic interventions, drawing from a spectrum of ideas and models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group.
6. To promote psychological support for carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

1. To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically/psychotherapeutically informed framework for the service.
2. To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
3. To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
4. To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological/psychotherapeutic care of clients.
5. To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
6. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
7. To liaise with the service/s MDT and other professionals.

Person Specification

Experience

• Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in adult mental health.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health.
• Experience of working in a rehabilitative setting.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and interventions for use in adult mental health and particularly for psychosis.
• Knowledge of racial and other diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care.

Skills

• 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.
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.

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.

Salary: £61,927 to £68,676 a year per annum incl. of HCAs pro rata.