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A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking to appoint a Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist to work with our community rehabilitation services in Lambeth. We will also consider applications from newly qualified and recently qualified Clinical Psychologists eligible to occupy the post at band 7. The post holder will work with multidisciplinary rehabilitation Mental Health Teams in Lambeth. Teams work with working age adults with complex mental health needs. The postholder will specialise in work with a particular presentation (e.g. psychosis/bipolar/complex emotional needs/complex trauma) and offer evidence based interventions in group and individual formats. The post holder will consolidate and further develop therapy skills by regularly assessing for and providing psychological therapy to adults known to the services with severe and complex mental health needs. They will also provide clinical supervision and consultancy and contributing to teaching and research activity. This post provides a senior link psychology & psychotherapy role within the Lambeth services and is based within the Lambeth inpatient teams. The postholder will also be expected to work within the community delivering psychological interventions.

We are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist with experience of and/or interest in, working within mental health services for people with complex mental health needs as part of multi-disciplinary teams. You will be expected to work autonomously to promote access to psychological interventions and to encourage psychologically informed care coordination. We are looking for someone that can offer a dynamic and creative approach to service delivery.

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.

About the location: The post will be based at our rehabilitation team at 5 Stockwell Mews.

Career progression: We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. South London & Maudsley NHS Trust is a large Trust with a range of career as well as training and development opportunities.

Flexible working: We are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working during Monday – Friday at the interview stage.

• To provide a highly specialist psychological therapy service, as part of a multidisciplinary inpatient team, to service users, and where appropriate, their families and caregivers, including specialist assessment and intervention, multidisciplinary formulation, treatment support and planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes according to relevant guidance and the evidence base.
• To be proactive in engaging individuals and their carers, who might express some ambivalence about engaging in psychological therapy.
• To support staff wellbeing and contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a specialist in complex and severe mental health presentations, with particular expertise in trauma, behavioural and development conditions, and psychosis/bipolar.
• To work flexibly across settings.
• To undertake service evaluation, audit and research, as appropriate.
• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, or equivalent and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Sep 2025