Job overview
We are looking for an experienced Psychological Therapist with substantive experience in Mood Anxiety and Personality Pathway within Secondary Care PCMHT/CMHT Settings.
This is an exciting role for someone with excellent expertise in Trauma Work and is keen to develop further their Leadership skills.
The post holder will provide leadership for the stepped care model of care in Southwark and have an overview of the waiting times and database.
To develop in collaboration with the Trauma Lead a comprehensive Trauma focused and Trauma-informed service to adults in Southwark and to personally provide highly specialist clinical input.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions to Southwark patients with a particular focus on interventions suited to treat racialised trauma.
To support the development of culturally appropriate interventions within the service and in the community for patients, families and carers.
Main duties of the job
To lead on the development of stepped care in Southwark and to develop and deliver effective stepped care interventions for clients with emotion regulation difficulties.
To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist trauma-informed psychological therapy service to clients with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, crisis and contingency plans, and interventions for clients in the community teams; providing adherent NET, CBT and EMDR, and developing and delivering shorter-term psychological interventions for clients in the CMHTs as part of a stepped-care approach.
Working for our organisation
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. 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.
The Trust is a national pilot site for the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF) prior to its launch nationwide in the summer of 2023. Our ambition is clear: to be a national leader in anti-racism mental health services by 2026 and to have the evidence of race equity to prove it. As a Trust we want to ensure our communities experience this transformation—through better care, greater trust, and the dismantling of racial disparities that have persisted too long.
Southwark is a diverse borough; we welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds across all of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act (2010).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To provide leadership for the stepped care model of care in Southwark.
• To develop in collaboration with the Trauma Lead a comprehensive Trauma-focused and Trauma-informed service to adults in Southwark and to personally provide highly specialist clinical input.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe and trauma-informed environment.
• To provide managerial and clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as the trauma therapy lead and leading on the development and delivery of the stepped-care programme in the community teams.
• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other trauma therapists within Southwark community teams.
• To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• To work as an autonomous professional within relevant professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional leads and to decide how they are best achieved.
Clinical and Client Care
• To lead on the development of stepped care in Southwark and to develop and deliver effective stepped care interventions for clients with emotion regulation difficulties.
• To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist trauma-informed psychological therapy service to clients with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, crisis and contingency plans, and interventions for clients in the community teams; providing adherent NET, CBT and EMDR, and developing and delivering shorter-term psychological interventions for clients in the CMHTs as part of a stepped-care approach.
• To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required with a particular emphasis on racialised trauma.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
• To act as a CPA co-ordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings.•
To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists.
• To ensure effective supervision of trainee applied psychologists, as appropriate.
• To contribute to the appraisal of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists, as appropriate.
• To contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists, as appropriate.
Responsibilities for team or service clinical functioning
• To lead on the development of a model of Stepped Care in Southwark including working with senior clinicians from other services/treatment modalities to develop and deliver an effective joined-up stepped care pathway.
• To co-ordinate (and chair) meetings regarding stepped care provision and meetings regarding pathways for these clients into accessing psychological support in secondary care.
• To take a lead in ensuring a psychologically informed framework for the stepped care model of treatment for clients in the secondary care CMHTs.
• To take a lead in developing the service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
• To advise other members of the service and other parts of the pathway on specialist (trauma- informed) psychological care of complex clients.
• To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members, including ensuring the delivery of NICE-concordant interventions
Teaching and Training
• To contribute to occasional specialised training to other professions and services as appropriate.
• To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the psychological therapies by maintaining and sharing an active awareness of current developments in trauma therapy, and the emerging evidence-base for psychological treatments and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
• To deliver training on trauma-informed principles to clinicians in CMHTs in Southwark.
• To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. CBT, NET OR EMDR Training resulting in practitioner status accredited with BABCP or relevant professional bodies.
2. (Psychologist) Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent and Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or (Adult Psychotherapist) equivalent training and UKCP registered Adult Psychotherapist
3. Additional training in one other modality such as CAT, Systemic, Schema or Psychodynamic through formal postqualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, OR an 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 a Postgraduate Diploma
4. Completed training course in clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
5. EMDR Consultant
6. CBT Supervisor
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Experience of having designed and delivered stepped care psychological interventions
8. Extensive experience of having delivered Trauma-focused therapies in secondary care MAP Pathway.
9. Evidence of having supervised clinicians in the delivery of EMDR /CBT
10. Extensive experience of working with clients with Complex PTSD.
Desirable criteria
11. Record of publications in either peer reviewed, academic or professional journals/books.
12. Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area.
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
13. Advanced knowledge regarding stepped care psychological interventions.
14. Well-developed skills in working collaboratively with other clinicians and services to develop new pathways and services.
15. Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively, complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues, overcoming barriers to communication including sensory and emotional difficulties, cultural differences
16. Highly developed knowledge PTSD and the evidence base for treatment.
17. Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT or EMDR.
Desirable criteria
18. Record of publications in academic or professional journals/books.
19. Ability to develop and use complex multimedia materials for groups, presentations in public, professional and academic meetings.