Job Description

The job includes contributing to the systematic provision of highly specialised individual and group psychological therapy for mood, anxiety, personality disorders, and complex traumas in adults in the Southwark community. Primary models used are CBT for complex traumas, EMDR, and Schema-informed Therapies. The psychology pathway works in parallel with other psychotherapists who are registered as Cognitive Analytical Therapists, Psychoanalytic Therapists and Family Therapists. Candidate will provide assessments and therapies for clients as well as will have a leading role in providing formulation, consultation, and guidance to non-psychological colleagues in MDT about psychological referral processes.



To provide specialist psychological interventions for adult clients in a community mental health service with complex traumas and personality disorders, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes. To 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 consultations and formulations to non-psychological MDT. To promote service evaluation, audit and research, as appropriate. To take a lead role as in a multidisciplinary team service, supporting the coordination of consultation, formulation, and referral pathways. To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.



By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. SLaM delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.



To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions

for clients (individuals, couples, families and social networks where the identified client has complex mental health needs) in the Mood, Anxiety and Personality Disorder Service within limits expected at Band 7.



To contribute to the effective working of the Mood, Anxiety and Personality Disorder Mental Health Community Team Service and to a psychologically/psychotherapeutically informed framework for the service.