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    Specialist Psychologist or Psychotherapist - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

    South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
    South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust London, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    This is an exciting opportunity to join Lewisham Crisis Plus, a repeat/high intensity user psychology service, as a highly specialist psychologist/psychotherapist within Lewisham Community Mental Health Services.

    The team works across services in the Lewisham 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.

    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 Lewisham Adult Mental Health Services
    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
    Supporting and directing the work of junior staff in the team (currently B5 Assistant Psychologists and B6 DClin Trainees)

    You will be based across a number of sites in Lewisham including two Community Mental Health bases (Speedwell and Churchdown) and the Ladywell unit, based in University Hospital Lewisham.


    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.


    Counselling services
    Long service awards
    Cycle to work scheme
    Season ticket loan
    Childcare vouchers

    The Crisis Plus model offers time-limited intervention to repeat users of crisis/acute pathways and the network of services, agencies and carers supporting that individual.

    Crisis Plus aims to reduce dependency on acute, crisis and emergency services through safe, reflective and assertive community treatment.

    Repeat users typically present with challenging and complex needs, including interpersonal trauma, high levels of distress/hopelessness, a range of diagnoses and an increased risk of harm to self and others.

    They are likely to have a history of difficult engagement/relationships with services, which makes them increasingly vulnerable to admission, which in turn can be traumatising and further impact on the relationship to/with help and services.

    Clinical and Client Care


    To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the Lewisham 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 assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

    To contribute to the team's or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

    To offer advice, consultation and training in Lewisham 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.

    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.

    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.

    Entry-level qualification in Applied Psychology (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level additional training) that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration.

    This can include Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology or registered with BABCP as a CBT therapist.

    Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice (such as any NICE and/or evidence base recommended psychological interventions for personality disorder such as DBT, MBT) 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 in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma.

    (Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC

    Completed training course in clinical supervision

    Evidence of having worked in a clinical specialist under supervision in community mental health services
    Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in community and acute mental health services
    Experience of supervising assistant and trainee psychologists or CBT psychotherapists having completed the relevant training
    Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities
    Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit or service evaluation projects

    oExperience of delivering Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Open Dialogue, or trauma-focused models or willingness to be trained in one of these models.

    Working across multiple services and agencies in relation to risk of harm to self and others
    Experience of working with service users who frequently present to acute and crisis services with multiple and complex risk presentations
    The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities
    Doctoral level / equivalent knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis.

    To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences
    To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
    Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups

    Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings
    South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
    University Hospital Lewisham
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