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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Brixton; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 73,000; Full time

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NHS discounts

Car lease

Accommodation

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Highly Specialist Psychologist/Psychotherapist in Lambeth Crisis Plus. The post involves delivering targeted, crisis-focused psychological support and supervision across Lambeth Community Mental Health Services, including liaison with multiple teams and networks.

The role emphasises consultation, training, and development of trauma-informed formulations, with opportunities to supervise junior staff and contribute to service

Qualifications

• Experience with crisis-focused psychological services.
• Knowledge of CBT/third wave models such as DBT/Open Dialogue.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments and formulations for Lambeth Crisis Plus service.
• Supervise junior staff and trainees and provide training to MDT colleagues.
• Develop and evaluate Crisis Plus, contribute to service development and research.

Job description

Highly Specialist Psychologist/Psychotherapist Lambeth Crisis Plus

Company:

Company: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Lambeth Crisis Plus - Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist/Psychotherapist - B8a or B7-8a preceptorship

This is an exciting opportunity to join Lambeth Crisis Plus, a repeat/high intensity user psychology service, as a highly specialist psychologist/psychotherapist within Lambeth Community Mental Health Services. The team works across services in the Lambeth directorate whilst being based within the secondary care community mental health teams.

The successful applicant will use their clinical skills to support a complex range of service users and their network. They will think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of skills in working alongside others. The role involves offering time-limited, formulation- and psychologically-informed crisis and care support to the service user, carer(s) and network of services. The post holder will also be expected to guide the work of other mental health professionals and assistant/trainee psychologists. The model emphasises consultation alongside the service user, including their networks of services. Applicants would benefit from experience of multi-agency management of self-neglect, self-harm, violence and substance misuse. In addition, skills and experience of training, coaching and supervision to support other practitioners are a valued asset.

Clinically, you will be: offering targeted support to a small cohort of service users who have had repeated psychiatric admissions; supporting the professional and personal network around the service user; supervising junior staff; teaching and training MDT colleagues. The service is growing and expanding across SLaM and this role also has a strong service development component, including: research and evaluation; developing and refining the existing service; supporting the development of new services; liaison and joint work with senior colleagues across the directorate and Trust.

• Working with repeat service users across Lambeth Adult Mental Health Services
• Offering time-limited interventions: Engaging highly complex service users; supporting them to reflect on their experiences of services and take a more active role in their care
• Developing specialist, trauma-informed formulations, centred around relationship to help
• Engaging with carers and family
• Co-producing multi-service/-agency crisis plans and interventions
• Consultation and liaison with teams and agencies across Lambeth
• Supporting, developing and evaluating Crisis Plus in conjunction with the Clinical Service Lead and Trust Lead for Crisis Plus
• Deputising for the Clinical Lead and representing Lambeth Crisis Plus across the directorate
• Supporting and directing the work of junior staff in the team (B5 Assistant Psychologists and B6 DClin Trainees)

You will be based across sites in Lambeth including the Community Mental Health base in Brixton, Liaison services at St. Thomas's Hospital and the acute and crisis services based in Lambeth Hospital.

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,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 fromkeyworker 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:

• Counselling services
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan

Our values: Kindness. Respect. Together.

Clinical and Client Care

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the Lambeth Crisis Plus service including risk of harm to self and other and risk of those vulnerable to dependency on acute and crisis services.
• Knowledge and experience of using CBT/third wave models such as DBT/Open Dialogue and/or other evidence-based treatments in the management of personality disorder, psychosis and/or substance misuse.
• To ensure cultural context is considered/discussed and to provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with SUs and their carers/families.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

• To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically-informed framework for the service.
• To contribute to the team's or 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 offer advice, consultation and training in Lambeth Crisis Plus planning and evidence-based interventions to other members of the service on the specialist psychological care of 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.

Policy and service development

• To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.
• To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
• To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.

Management and supervision

• To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists with support from a more senior psychologist.
• To contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychologists, as appropriate.
• To provide supervision for the psychological work of other multi-disciplinary staff as appropriate.

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