Lambeth Secondary Care Psychological Therapies Service (SCPT) is an innovative, dynamic service offering interventions at tiers 1, 2 and 3. These include a range of modalities working in the building with personality disorders, complex trauma and other difficulties. Modalities delivered include MBT, DBT, psychodynamic therapy, CAT, and trauma focussed therapy. The Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) programme is offered by a discrete team within SCPT operating within the wider integrated service. Support for MBT in the wider organisation is excellent with Trust wide special interest groups and strong links to the Anna Freud Centre. This would be a great opportunity for a clinician who has completed MBT training or who is due to complete in a few months.

Main duties of the job

This role will be based in Lambeth SCPT (see above) and supervised by the Lambeth MBT lead.

The post holder's role will be:

To provide specialist psychological interventions in line with the Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) model including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes and liaison with referrers including community mental health teams.

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 supervision and consultation as appropriate.

To take part in 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.

About us

This post will be based mainly in central London at 151 Blackfriars Rd close to Southwark Underground station. There is likely to be some working from home agreed and potentially work based at other Lambeth sites.

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package, feel valued and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

Some of our benefits include:

• Generous pay, pensions and leavepackages dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career developmentwith plenty CPD opportunities such as mentoring, coaching, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Accommodation,our staff benefit fromkeyworker housing at selected sites.
• NHS discountsvia theHealth Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide a specialist psychology service to adult clients being supported by a newly created Housing First team: including specialist assessment, psychological therapy, trauma specific interventions and monitoring of outcomes. These roles are suitable for someone with interest in Psychology in Hostels trauma-informed and Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) work.

Key Responsibilities:

Clinical

• To provide expertise in a specialist clinical area, the psychological needs of those experiencing complex needs and multiple disadvantage (incl. homelessness).

• To provide specialist assessment and clinical formulation to clients with a wide range of mental health needs, including complex trauma, personality disorder, anxiety and depression, addictions, learning difficulties and psychosis.

• To select, administer and interpret psychometric and neuropsychological tests, involving skilled manipulation of test materials and high-level analysis of findings from the assessments.
• To select and deliver evidence-based specialist psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical options.
• To advise other team members and partner services on specialist psychological care of clients.

Teaching, training, and supervision

• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist or psychotherapist according to HCPC and Trust guidelines.
• To provide specialist training in psychological and trauma-informed approaches to care for other professionals as appropriate, particularly to third sector staff, peer support workers, project MDT within the Housing First project team.
• To provide clinical supervision for psychological work undertaken by assistant psychologists, placement students, trainee psychologists and the MDT team as appropriate.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development

• To identify any aspects of the service which could be improved and contribute to the service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
• To manage own workload and the agreed workload of junior staff, as required, under supervision from a more senior psychologist.
• To participate in clinical governance initiatives as agreed by the Directorate clinical governance committee and team.

Research and service evaluation

• To lead, support and/or participate in service evaluation, including gathering and analysing output and outcome data, as required.
• To carry out appropriate research to improve the quality of care and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research within the service.

General Responsibilities

• To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with HCPC, BPS and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements.

A full Job Description and Person Specification is attached to the advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession 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.
• Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC/APC/ BPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP/ADMP-UK

Desirable

• Additional training in relevant specialist psychological models (Psychodynamic, MBT, DBT, CAT, Systemic, Narrative).
• Additional training in neuropsychological assessment and treatment

Experience

Essential

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health (e.g. Addictions/ homelessness /complex trauma/ personality disorder/ mood disorder).
• Experience of engagement of hard-to-reach clients
• Experience of providing teaching and training to other professional groups

Desirable

• Experience of working with homeless people
• Experience of specialist work with trauma and complex trauma.
• Experience of work with substance misuse.

Knowledge

Essential

• Awareness of racial diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care.
• Knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics (incl. selecting, administering and interpreting neuropsychological tests).

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge relevant to work in supported housing settings.
• Masters or Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis.
• Current knowledge of, expertise, or interest in and/or willingness to train further in neuropsychology, including in reaching excluded populations

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work flexibly and creatively to engage clients in hostel settings.
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills (incl. delivering complex and sensitive information to clients, families and staff).
• Specialist practitioner skills at level 3 in at least one model of psychotherapy or psychological therapy (CBT, Psychodynamic, MBT, systemic, CAT).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Community site in central London

151 Blackfriars Road

London

SE18EL

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334-CLI-6303952