Team Lead (Step 2) - Lambeth Talking Therapies

NHS; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent mental health service provider in London is seeking an experienced Step 2 Team Lead to oversee a vital department within Lambeth Talking Therapies. The role requires a qualified High Intensity therapist with leadership capabilities. Responsibilities include providing clinical supervision, maintaining a caseload, and collaborating with the clinical team to ensure excellence in patient care. This hybrid position offers a comprehensive benefits package and supports ongoing professional development.

Benefits

Generous pay and pensions

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

NHS discounts up to 10%

Qualifications

• Experience in managing projects and improving services.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead and shape the department's future direction.
• Provide clinical supervision to team members.
• Maintain a clinical caseload.
• Collaborate to ensure high-quality care.

Skills

High Intensity CBT supervision

Project management

Energy and drive

Education

Qualified High Intensity therapist

IAPT supervision credentials

Job description

Overview

Job summary. Are you an experienced High Intensity CBT therapist ready to take the next step in your career? Lambeth Talking Therapies, one of London's largest and most successful IAPT services, is seeking a permanent Team Lead for the Step 2 service.

This is your chance to shape the future of mental health care in Lambeth, working with a dynamic team committed to excellence, equity, and innovation.

The Role

As Step 2 Team Lead, you'll:

• Lead a key department within the service, shaping its future direction and driving delivery.
• Provide clinical supervision to High Intensity Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
• Maintain a clinical caseload as a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
• Take ownership of a strategic area such as performance, training, or capacity planning.
• Collaborate with the Clinical Lead and fellow Team Leads to ensure high-quality care and meet national targets.

The Person

We're looking for someone who:

• Is a qualified and experienced High Intensity therapist.
• Has IAPT supervision credentials.
• Brings a proven track record of managing projects and improving services.
• Demonstrates energy, drive, and a commitment to delivering the best care.

Main duties

As Step 2 Team Lead, you'll:

• Lead a key department within the service, helping shape its future direction and driving delivery.
• Provide clinical supervision to High Intensity Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
• Maintain a clinical caseload as a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
• Take ownership of a strategic area such as performance, training, or capacity planning.
• Collaborate with the Clinical Lead and fellow Team Leads to ensure high-quality care and meet national targets.

We're looking for someone who:

• Is a qualified and experienced High Intensity therapist.
• Has IAPT supervision credentials.
• Brings a proven track record of managing projects and improving services.
• Demonstrates energy, drive, and a commitment to delivering the best care.

Lambeth Talking Therapies is a friendly, creative, social team. We support each other, with opportunities to take on responsibilities and develop.

High-Intensity Therapists receive specialist CBT supervision and training delivered by senior staff as well as the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma, a national centre of clinical excellence and research innovation within SLaM.

This is a hybrid role with 1-2 days in the office and the rest from home. Applications may close early if an exceptional response is received.

About us and Benefits

We are committed to ensuring staff get the most from their benefits package and a healthy work-life balance. There is an extensive range of benefits for you and your family. We aim for you to feel part of a close-knit team at SLaM and offer a comprehensive benefits package.

Some benefits include:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave with a comprehensive package dependent on role and service length.
• Work life balance with flexible options including part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development with mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease with competitive deals.
• Accommodation keyworker housing on selected sites.
• NHS discounts up to 10% via Health Service Discounts.

Other benefits include access to SLaM counselling, wellbeing events, long service awards, cycle to work, season ticket loan, and staff restaurants.

Details

Date posted: 18 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £64,156 to £71,148 per year inclusive of Inner HCAs

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 334-CLI-7432240

Job locations: Lambeth (various locations) 1a Dalbury House, Ferndale Rd, London SW9 8AP

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

PLANNING, MANAGING AND EVALUATING THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES WITHIN LAMBETH TALKING THERAPIES

• Assessing the service need and current and future capacity requirements
• Planning and managing the recruitment process to meet this need
• Monitoring and evaluating service activity and outcomes
• Managing the induction, training and development of staff
• Developing and updating policies and procedures for the delivery of high quality clinical services
• Commissioning and monitoring external provision of services as agreed

TEAM MANAGEMENT

• To agree job plans, performance targets and development goals with your team through the appraisal process, and monitor and support staff in their achievement
• To foster a supportive and performance focussed team ethos through your interaction and communication with the team, your own behaviour, team meetings and supervision
• To provide day to day line management for your team (annual leave, sickness, etc.)
• Ensuring good two-way communication between your staff and the service management, through monthly team meetings and informal links

SERVICE LEADERSHIP

• To share responsibility for the direction and development of the service, taking an active role in the monthly service management meeting, leading team and whole team meetings
• To provide regular reports on the activity and performance of the team, and any issues that need attention
• To identify aspects of the service that could be improved and initiate and implement service development projects
• To take the lead in agreed areas of development and service delivery
• To participate in the recruitment process of staff
• To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and developing services
• To listen and respond to, and appropriately manage patient complaints
• To participate in clinical governance initiatives as agreed by the directorate clinical governance committee
• Contribute to a culture that values outcome measures and service user involvement to improve clinical practice

CLINICAL

• Provide expertise in a highly specialist clinical area contributing to treatment of clients with anxiety disorders or depression within an IAPT framework
• Deliver NICE-recommended, formulation-driven psychological interventions for depression and anxiety, adapting for specific needs
• Assess and integrate social support, voluntary work and employment into therapy
• Provide highly specialist assessment and clinical formulation to clients with complex needs
• Provide psychological reports informing referrers and service users
• Deliver and monitor highly specialist psychological treatments, drawing on various theoretical models
• Collect and interpret clinical outcome data to inform treatment planning
• Work autonomously within guidelines and service policies, taking full responsibility for own work
• Travel to community settings as appropriate and across the Trust
• Contribute to team functioning within a psychologically informed framework
• Communicate complex information sensitively with clients and families
• Maintain clear, accurate records of clinical activity
• Assess and manage risk and develop risk management plans
• Advise other service members on specialist psychological care
• Respond professionally to distressed situations and support others
• Provide services at various locations in Lambeth
• Signpost for patients not meeting eligibility criteria and refer to secondary care when appropriate
• Ensure clear referral pathways within IAPT
• Maintain a clinical caseload aligned with activity targets

TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION

• Receive regular supervision and contribute to knowledge development within Lambeth IAPT
• Provide professional managerial and clinical supervision to HI CBT therapists, PWPs and junior staff, including live supervision
• Deliver outcome-focused supervision and participate in supervisor groups
• Provide service-level risk management and contribute to risk plans
• Provide specialist training to other professions as appropriate
• Plan and undertake teaching and training for pre- and post-qualification staff
• Supervise psychological work of multi-disciplinary staff as appropriate

RESEARCH AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

• Support a research culture using outcome measures to improve practice
• Encourage critical evaluation and undertake research
• Use theory to support evidence-based practice and disseminate findings
• Contribute to service development through evaluation and audits
• Disseminate research findings through presentations and articles

PROFESSIONAL

• Work autonomously and adhere to HPC/BABCP guidelines and service policies
• Maintain Continuing Professional Development
• Stay aware of advances in CBT and IAPT
• Work within CBT principles and clinical governance framework

GENERAL

• Participate in IAPT meetings and travel to GP practices and other meetings
• Be available to work one evening as required

Disclosure and Barring Service: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require disclosure checks.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship will be considered. UK visas info available on the UKVI site.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Lambeth (various locations), 1a Dalbury House, Ferndale Rd, London SW9 8AP. Website: slam.nhs.uk