Are you an experienced High Intensity CBT therapist ready to take the next step in your career? Lambeth Talking Therapies, one of London's largest and most successful IAPT services, is seeking a passionate and skilled professional to join our management team as a permanent Team Lead for the Step 2 service.
This is your chance to shape the future of mental health care in Lambeth, working alongside a dynamic and supportive team committed to excellence, equity, and innovation
The Role
As Step 2 Team Lead, you'll:
Lead a key department within the service, helping shape its future direction and driving delivery.
Provide clinical supervision to High Intensity Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
Maintain a clinical caseload as a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
Take ownership of a strategic area such as performance, training, or capacity planning.
Collaborate with the Clinical Lead and fellow Team Leads to ensure high-quality care and meet national targets
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The Person
We're looking for someone who:
Is a qualified and experienced High Intensity therapist.
Has IAPT supervision credentials.
Brings a proven track record of managing projects and improving services.
Demonstrates energy, drive, and a commitment to delivering the best car
As Step 2 Team Lead, you'll:
Lead a key department within the service, helping shape its future direction and driving delivery.
Provide clinical supervision to High Intensity Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
Maintain a clinical caseload as a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
Take ownership of a strategic area such as performance, training, or capacity planning.
Collaborate with the Clinical Lead and fellow Team Leads to ensure high-quality care and meet national targets
We're looking for someone who:
Is a qualified and experienced High Intensity therapist.
Has IAPT supervision credentials.
Brings a proven track record of managing projects and improving services.
Demonstrates energy, drive, and a commitment to delivering the best care
Lambeth Talking Therapies is a friendly, creative, social team. We support each other to work hard, and there are lots of opportunities to take on responsibilities and develop.
High-Intensity Therapists receive specialist CBT supervision and training delivered by senior staff as well as the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma – a national centre of clinical excellence and research innovation within SLaM.
This is a hybrid role with a requirement to work 1-2 days in the office and the rest of the time from home.
It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date due to an exceptional response, so please apply as soon as possible.
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
Key Responsibilities:
PLANNING, MANAGING AND EVALUATING THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES WITHIN LAMBETH TALKING THERAPIES
Assessing the service need and current and future capacity requirements
Planning and managing the recruitment process to meet this need
Monitoring and evaluating service activity and outcomes
Managing the induction, training and development of staff
Developing and updating policies and procedures for the delivery of high quality clinical services
Commissioning and monitoring external provision of services as agreed
TEAM MANAGEMENT
To agree job plans, performance targets and development goals with your team through the appraisal process, and monitor and support staff in their achievement
To foster a supportive and performance focussed team ethos through your interaction and communication with the team, your own behaviour, team meetings and supervision
To provide day to day line management for your team (annual leave, sickness etc)
Ensuring good two-way communication between your staff and the service management, through monthly team meetings and informal links
SERVICE LEADERSHIP
To share responsibility for the direction and development of the service, taking an active role in the monthly service management meeting, leading team and whole team meetings
To provide regular reports on the activity and performance of the team, and any issues that need attention
To identify aspects of the service, which could be improved and initiate and implement service development projects
To take the lead in agreed areas of development and service delivery
To participate in the recruitment process of staff
To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and developing services
To listen and respond to, and appropriately manage patient complaints
To participate in clinical governance initiatives as agreed by the directorate clinical governance committee.
Contribute to the development of a culture within the team that values the use of outcome measures and service user involvement as ways of improving clinical practice
CLINICAL
To provide expertise in a highly specialist clinical area which will contribute to the treatment of clients presenting with anxiety disorders or depression within an IAPT framework
To deliver NICE recommended, formulation driven psychological interventions for depression and anxiety disorders, adapting interventions for the specific needs and clinical setting.
Assess and integrate issues surrounding social support, voluntary work and employment into therapy
To provide highly specialist assessment and clinical formulation to clients with complex mental health needs, including personality disorders, addiction and trauma
To provide psychological reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users
To select and deliver highly specialist evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcomes and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical models
To collect and enter clinical outcome data on a sessional basis; select and interpret outcome measures to inform treatment planning
To work as an autonomous professional within BPS/BABCP/HCPC guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions
To travel to community settings as appropriate and across the Trust when required
To contribute to the effective working of the team and to a psychologically informed framework for the service area, taking on specific roles or duties as agreed
To communicate skilfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information with clients, carers, colleagues and other professionals taking account of sensory and cultural barriers to communication
To keep clear, accurate and up to date records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols
To confidently assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans
To confidently advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients
To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations such as distressed clients or abusive behaviour and to support others involved in such situations
To provide services at various locations in the borough of Lambeth
To provide information and signposting for patients who do not meet the service's eligibility criteria, including referral to secondary care psychological therapies service
Work closely with other members of the IAPT team to ensure that patients referred on to the IAPT service have a clear referral pathway
Maintain a clinical caseload in line with activity targets agreed with line manager
TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist/psychotherapist according to BABCP/BPS/HCPC and Trust guidelines
To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within Lambeth IAPT by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology, CBT, IAPT and by implementing knowledge gained in practice
To provide professional managerial, and clinical supervision to HI CBT therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, trainees, assistant psychologist and other junior staff members for all aspects of their work. This must include live supervision of therapist's work
To deliver and promote outcome-focussed supervision, directly to supervised staff, and through participation in the LI and HI supervisors groups
To provide service level risk management, taking part in the on-call risk rota, and developing and recording risk management plans
To provide specialist training to other professions as appropriate
To plan and undertake teaching and training of pre and post- qualification psychologists and specialised training to other professions as appropriate
To provide supervision for the psychological work of other multi-disciplinary staff as appropriate
RESEARCH AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
Assist in the development and maintenance of a strong research culture that values the use of outcome measures as a way of improving clinical practice
Encourage the critical evaluation of practice, and undertake research
Use theory and literature to support evidence-based practice in clinical work, supervision, teaching and consultations
Communicate and disseminate research and service evaluation information so that clinical practice is appropriately informed
To contribute to the development of services through initiating, undertaking and supervising service evaluation and audit
To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles
PROFESSIONAL
Work as an autonomous professional and maintain standards of practice adhering to HPC or BABCP guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions
To ensure Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS/BABCP/UKCP and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements
Be aware of advances in CBT, other psychological therapies and the IAPT programme
Work in accordance with the principles of CBT and within the parameters of good practice, in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Clinical Governance Framework
GENERAL
To participate in business and professional meetings within the IAPT service and Lambeth Directorate
To travel to the GP practices, service meetings and other meetings as appropriate
To regularly work one evening as required