Reflective Practice (RSR) Lead

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 72,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a part-time Reflective Practice Lead to develop, co-coordinate, and provide reflective practice to all staff. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills and experience in staff support. Responsibilities include leading various projects to enhance staff well-being. This role is permanent with a salary range of £64,156 to £71,148 annually.

Qualifications

• Entry-level qualification in applied psychology accepted by the HCPC.
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Additional training in at least one area of Staff Support.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Reflective Practice workstream and contribute to various projects.
• Ensure access to staff support reaches marginalized groups.
• Provide training and clinical supervision in Reflective Practice.

Skills

Organisational skills

Project management

Teaching and training

Education

Professional Doctorate in Applied Psychology

Registration with the HCPC

Qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy

Tools

Prince2 Project Management

Job description

Reflective Practice (RSR) Lead

The closing date is 03 December 2025

We are looking for a new Reflective Practice Lead to join the Staff Support team at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. This post offers the opportunity to develop, co‑coordinate and ensure the systematic provision of reflective practice to all staff using the Trust's RSR (Reflect, Support, Resolve) Model. The post holder will lead the reflective practice workstream, with some input into our other Staff Support projects (including Schwartz Rounds, Critical Incident Staff Support and Team Support Plans). We are seeking a candidate who can effectively engage stakeholders and lead projects at an organisation‑wide level.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate must have exceptional organisational skills and demonstrable ability to run multiple projects simultaneously and at scale, delivering both on target and on time. They must be skilled in designing and delivering training, providing consultation and reflective practice. The candidate must be hardworking and able to take initiative whilst holding strong team‑player values. Experience working in staff support, awareness of the impact of trauma on healthcare staff, narrative or systemic therapy training and project management experience are highly desirable. The post holder will also have management experience and leadership skills.

Please see the job description for the particular requirements of this role.

About us

Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy (Corp P&P) oversees the standards of psychology and psychotherapy in SLaM. It has strong links to other disciplines and services. The governance of the provision, assessment and delivery of psychological interventions within the trust for both patients and staff is held under Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy. As a department we are made up of skilled staff members from Psychology and Nursing backgrounds with lots of different expertise.

Within Corp P&P we have a programme of projects which address both local and national priorities through workforce, quality improvement and service development projects. Using a project management approach the work loosely falls under three workstreams: Staff Support, Psychological Workforce and Enabling Service Improvement. Examples of recent projects include developing psychologically based approaches in acute and crisis care, developing and implementing staff support initiatives, including the Trust’s Critical Incident Staff Support (CISS) service, work in Global Mental Health and developing workforce initiatives for aspiring and qualified psychologists and psychotherapists (e.g. training events; diversifying the workforce).

Job responsibilities

• Develop, co‑coordinate and ensure the systematic provision of Reflective Practice (RSR) to all staff from within Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy, and personally provide highly specialist clinical input.
• Lead the Reflective Practice workstream and contribute to a range of projects (including Schwartz Rounds, Critical Incident Staff Support, Team Wellbeing Support Plans, Rest & Recharge Hubs) available to staff of all disciplines across the organization.
• Co‑create and initiate further developments in line with the evolving multidisciplinary staff support strategy within the organization.
• Proactively seek out opportunities to increase awareness of the Staff Support offer and recruit new members to the Staff Support Community of Practice.
• Ensure that access to staff support reaches most marginalised and at risk groups and enable staff from diverse backgrounds to flourish by creating a psychologically safe work environment.
• Receive training, clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as lead specialist for reflective practice.
• Provide training, clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as lead specialist in Reflective Practice, and ensure regular training, CPD, conference and supervision events for the Staff Support Community of Practice.
• Ensure there are sufficient Reflective Practice facilitators trained at all times to meet the need within the Trust.
• Provide governance, oversight and leadership of the RSR workstream within staff support.
• Ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of multidisciplinary staff within our reflective community of practice.
• Agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and decide how they are best achieved.
• Undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• Work as an autonomous professional within appropriate professional guidelines and codes of conduct, guided by principles and policies of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• Work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC/RMHN/BACP/UKCP guidelines and codes of conduct, guided by principles and policies of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Entry‑level qualification in Applied Psychology (Professional Doctorate or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma) accepted by the HCPC for professional registration (A/I).
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Entry‑level qualification in Psychotherapy Masters degree (plus supervised practice) accepted by the BACP/UKCP for professional registration (A/I).
• Registered with the BACP/UKCP as Psychotherapist.
• Entry‑level qualification in Creative Arts Therapy (Masters in Art Therapy, Music Therapy or Drama Therapy) accepted by HCPC (A/I).
• Additional training in at least one area of Staff Support, Systemic/Narrative practice through formal post‑qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent) or a combination of specialist short courses, or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice‑based learning assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma (A/I/R).
• Prince2 Project Management.
• Qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy.

Experience

• Leadership roles.
• Providing teaching and training to a variety of professional groups.
• Experience of one or more staff support project approaches or similar.
• Managing multiple projects at scale.

Knowledge

• Theoretical models of wellbeing, burnout and secondary traumatisation in healthcare staff and teams.

Skills

• Teaching, training and consultation for other professional groups.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and therefore requires a disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary

£64,156 to £71,148 a year (incl. HCAs pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part‑time

Reference number

334‑CLI‑7551697

Job locations

Maudsley Hospital and locations across the Trust