LTC Clinical Lead - Lambeth Talking Therapies

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Job summary

An established NHS foundation is seeking a part-time LTC Lead/Senior CBT Therapist to join a dynamic and supportive team. This role involves planning and managing the delivery of specialist psychological assessments and therapies for adults with anxiety and depression, particularly in the context of long-term health conditions. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead a dedicated team, promote integrated care, and contribute to service development within a well-respected organization. With a strong commitment to staff development and a comprehensive benefits package, this position offers a fulfilling career path for those passionate about making a difference in mental health care.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions, and leave

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

Car lease benefits

Keyworker housing

NHS discounts

Access to counselling services

Long service awards

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology required.
• Experience in adapting treatments for clients with Long Term Conditions.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and develop Lambeth Talking Therapies LTC pathway.
• Facilitate Long-Term Conditions Working Group and manage integrated clinics.

Skills

Clinical Psychology

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

IAPT Service Experience

Supervision of Therapists

Long-Term Conditions Management

Education

Doctoral Level Qualification in Clinical Psychology

IAPT HI CBT Course Completion

King's College Long Term Conditions Course

Job description

Main area LTC Lead / Senior CBT Therapist Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Job share

15 hours per week (Part time (2 days a week), including Wednesday afternoon and with one day a 12-8pm shifted day) Job ref 334-CLI-7098765

Employer South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Lambeth (various locations) Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of inner HCAs pro rata if part time Salary period Yearly Closing 20/05/2025 23:59

LTC Clinical Lead - Lambeth Talking Therapies

Band 8a

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

Lambeth NHS Talking Therapies is looking to recruit a part-time 2 days/week) LTC team lead with key responsibilities around planning, managing and evaluating the delivery of the long-term health conditions pathway and services within Lambeth NHS Talking Therapies

You will work closely with the rest of the management team to promote and support the delivery of the service.

We are a friendly, supportive and innovative team of individuals. We are committed to supporting the development of our staff who come and work for us by providing high quality supervision and opportunities for development.

Main duties of the job

The post:

· To coordinate and assist in further developing the Lambeth Talking Therapies (IAPT) LTC pathway and service aimed at the delivery of specialist psychological assessment and therapy for adults with anxiety and depression in the context of various long-term conditions and delivery of integrated LTC care.

· To facilitate and manage the Long-Term Conditions Working Group

· To attend monthly LTC IAPT lead meetings/ Mental Health Transformation meetings and disseminate information linked to this

Working for our organisation

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
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

· To coordinate and assist in further developing the Lambeth Talking Therapies (IAPT) LTC pathway and service aimed at the delivery of specialist psychological assessment and therapy for adults with anxiety and depression in the context of various long-term conditions and delivery of integrated LTC care.

· To facilitate and manage the Long-Term Conditions Working Group

· To attend monthly LTC IAPT lead meetings/ Mental Health Transformation meetings and disseminate information link to this

· To work collaboratively with other IAPT LTC leads and King’s Health Professionals in relation to sharing knowledge

· To provide high quality supervision using specialist knowledge of LTC conditions

· To provide high quality training or facilitate the arrangement of LTC training

· To develop and adapt IAPT protocols and ways of working with LTC consideration and NICE guidelines in mind

· To support the service leads by sharing responsibility of the day to day running of the non-LTC parts of the service

· To take a lead role in the day to day running of the Long-Term conditions (LTC) part of the service

· To monitor, collect, analyse, evaluate and disseminate LTC condition data on performance and outcomes.

· To set up and operationally manage integrated clinics

· To work collaboratively with the service lead/deputy service lead to implement service developments / new initiatives

· To support the clinical leads in maintaining a strong, committed and motivated team

· To support clinical (team) leads in expanding this project by being involved in recruitment and training of new staff members, and then continue to support the clinical lead in maintaining a strong, committed and motivated team

· To support the induction of new staff with a view of supporting new staff members to have LTC in mind.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology (and HCPC registration) and having completed an IAPT HI CBT course, OR, High intensity (HI) therapist, having completed an IAPT CBT course
• To have completed King’s College London’s Long Term Conditions in IAPT course

Clinical Experience

• Experience of working within an IAPT service, as a qualified HI
• Specialist experience in adapting treatments for clients with Long Term Conditions who present with depression and a range of anxiety disorders
• Experience of supervising high intensity therapists/CBT therapists/PWPs
• Specialist experience in setting up integrated clinics, and working as part of an NHS Talking Therapies integrated clinic
• Significant experience of contributing to service development and improvements (2=managed service function, 1=project)

Quality of application

• High ( well-written, comprehensive, refs to Lambeth IAPT and own development needs) Medium (Well-written, IAPT refs) Low (mistakes, omissions, generic application)

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.