LTC Clinical Lead - Lambeth Talking Therapies

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization committed to improving mental health services in London. As a part-time LTC team lead, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing the delivery of psychological assessments and therapies for adults facing long-term health conditions. This role offers the chance to work within a supportive and innovative team, where your contributions will directly impact patient care. With a strong focus on staff development and well-being, you'll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the community. Be part of an exciting journey towards better mental health outcomes.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions and leave

Flexible working options

Career development programs

Car lease benefits

Keyworker housing

NHS discounts

Access to counselling services

Wellbeing events

Long service awards

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Doctoral qualification in clinical psychology or counselling psychology.
• Experience in IAPT services and managing long-term conditions.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the Lambeth Talking Therapies LTC pathway and service.
• Facilitate Long-Term Conditions Working Group meetings.
• Support the clinical leads in maintaining a motivated team.

Skills

Clinical Psychology

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Long-Term Conditions Management

Supervision of Therapists

Service Development

Education

Doctoral Level Qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

BABCP Practitioner Full Accreditation

IAPT HI CBT Course Completion

Job description

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
• Wellbeing events
• 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

Essential criteria

• 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
• BABCP practitioner full accreditation
• To have completed King's College London's Long Term Conditions in IAPT course

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

• 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

Management experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of contributing to service development and improvements (2=managed service function, 1=project)

Quality of application

Essential criteria

• 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

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• 8a LTC Lead Job Description and Person Spec (PDF, 624.5KB)
• SLaM Staff Benefits (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working (PDF, 680.1KB)