Job overview
• The Centre for Parent and Child Support (CPCS) has a range of evidence-based programmes including Empowering Parents Empowering Communities, Family Partnership Model and Promotional Guides which are delivered locally to South London and Maudsley, disseminated nationally and internationally. CPCS is part of SlaM’s National and Specialist CAMHS provision.
• The role will be responsible for leading the ongoing direct delivery, dissemination and implementation of CPCS evidence-based programmes nationally and internationally.
• The role will interest innovative clinicians who are highly skilled and experienced at working within parenting, working in a peer delivery model, can engage with families and organisational structures who are aiming for the best outcomes for children.
• You will be a strong, compassionate and motivating leader and line-manager invested in work force development.
• You are required to take a leadership role in enabling staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• You will take a leadership role in the collection of routine outcomes, as well as the coordination of service evaluation, service development, intervention development and research.
Main duties of the job
• Leadership, coordination and systematic provision of a highly specialist parenting service to families both universally and targeted, workforce development training.
• Working to ensure work with national, international and local services is negotiated, agreed and fulfilled according to service level agreements, licenses and work plans with sufficient funding.
• Use understanding of complex and changing circumstances within social care, national health service and voluntary sector to support work of CPCS to remain accessible, appropriate and acceptable.
• Promote work of CPCS internally within the Trust, nationally and internationally, presenting at conferences, delivering training and through publications.
• Highly skilled in the clinical application of the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities, Family Partnership Model and Promotional Guides to families and organisations
• Confident and skilled in engaging with parents and working within a peer model.
• Ability to create a supportive, connected, facilitative, influential and purposeful partnerships with families, colleagues and multi-agencies.
• Coordination and development of specialist peer-led parenting group interventions
• Regular and reflective clinical supervision to colleagues
• Service evaluation, audit and research
Working for our organisation
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm giving you the very best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)
About our locations:
Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
The Centre is based in the Michael Rutter Centre on the Maudsley Hospital site. Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants. (Due to move to the Pears Maudsley Children and Young People (PMCYP) at the Maudsley Hospital in early 2026)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To develop strategy for and lead, manage and plan the delivery of Centre for Parent and Child Support (CPCS) portfolio of programmes including Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC), Family Partnership Model (FPM) and Promotional Guides (PG) and personally provide expert clinical input in the field of parenting, workforce development, programme implementation and dissemination.
• To be responsible to relevant Professional Heads for the monitoring and implementation of professional, clinical standards, and governance in the service and for the systematic and effective provision of professional supervision to multi-disciplinary team, parent group leaders and consultation to national and international colleagues in CPCS licensed programmes
• To contribute to enabling other staff, parent group leaders, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To ensure the conduct of research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the service and consistent with the Directorate, national and international research agendas
• To develop, maintain and expand the portfolio of high quality and effective programmes provided by CPCS supporting parents, children and families and workforces delivering services to them.
• To be develop standards for and take a lead in ensuring the good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of practitioners and parent group leaders in the service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. To have undertaken a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions, e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology, medicine, social work and occupational therapy OR to have equivalent relevant experience and demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field in the NHS.
2. Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent 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. (A/I)
3. Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline. (A/I/R)
4. Registered with / accredited by professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC/APC/UKCP/BABCP/ADMP-UK/ACP. (A/I)
Desirable criteria
5. Training in Empowering Parents Empowering Communities group interventions, Family Partnership Model, Promotional Guides, Helping Families programme.
6. Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience (A/I)
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in parenting interventions and workforce development/training (A/I)
8. Experience of peer-led, service user-based service provision, coproduction and collaborative work (A/I)
9. Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities, including culture, ethnicity, language and social class (A/I)
Desirable criteria
10. Extensive experience of health service research, evaluation, audit and dissemination through teaching, training and publication (A/I/R)
11. International experience of working within parenting, workforce development and child mental health care (A/I)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
12. Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for parenting interventions across age span and conditions and workforce development/training e.g. attachment, developmental ecology, strengths-based methods, risk and resilience, CBT, goal-focused and relational methods (A/I/R)
13. Understanding of key principles and science of managing dissemination, ‘spread’, organisational change and implementation of CPCS programmes in complex local, national, and international environments (A/I)
14. To deliver psychological/psychotherapeutic therapy across cultural and other differences. (A/I/R)
Desirable criteria
15. Advanced knowledge of clinical supervision frameworks and theories (A/I/R)
16. Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methodology and guidelines for the evaluation of complex interventions (A/I)
Skills
Essential criteria
17. To deliver specialist engagement, retention of parents/carers in parenting interventions across cultural and other differences. (A/I/R)
18. Advanced project management skills (A/I)
19. 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. (A/I/R)
Desirable criteria
20. Assessed skills in providing professional advice to practitioners and local organisation in workforce development and organisation change (A/I)
21. To value and be able to work in partnership with peer supporters and people with lived experience (A/I)
Abilities
Essential criteria
22. Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I/R)
23. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. (A/I/R)
24. Ability to manage highly complex situations involving multiple difficulties, and competing/conflicting views about those difficulties; and to help create contexts that develop systemic engagement, and harness the strengths and abilities of those involved in order to work towards solutions (A/I/R)
Desirable criteria
25. Ability to use IT/computer software and multimedia materials for communication, presentations in public, professional and academic settings (A/I)