Job Description

In Lambeth Secondary Care Psychological Therapies (SCPT) we are reaching across the pathway and into community and primary care settings. Our clinicians provide a range of specialist psychological therapies for mood, anxiety, trauma related and personality difficulties for adults with long-standing and complex mental health difficulties.



We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced psychological therapist to join us on maternity cover secondment, focusing on close working with our first step of care - our tier 1 team - and with Lambeth's Short Term Support Team, providing clinical care to clients with complex needs, as well as overseeing and assessing new referrals to our service. In addition, the postholder will be working therapeutically in our tier 2 trauma-reliving /complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (cPTSD)reliving therapy pathway offering Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (TF-CBT) or/and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).



The post is based at 151 Blackfriars road, but there is an expectation that the postholder will travel to other sites as needed.



As described above, the postholder will be working in close liaison with the North Short Term Support Team (STS North Living Well Centre) and oversee the SCPT team working within that locality. This includes attending and providing input to STS Multi-disciplinary meetings, Primary Care and Alliance Network meetings, conducting joint assessments and formulations, offering training and supervision to Tier 1 SCPT staff and to STS staff.



The postholder will also work clinically on our tier 2 complex PTSD reliving therapy pathway, co-facilitating preparatory groups including our Trauma Stabilisation Group and our EMDR preparation group, as well as offering assessments and treatment for individual reliving-focused therapy, including TF-CBT and/or EMDR. Local training will in protocols will be provided and relevant supervision is available.



Finally, the postholder will be involved in recruitment of new Tier 1 staff.



The second largest inner London Borough with an official population of around 350,000. The local population has needs related to a high level of social deprivation such as unemployment, poor social housing and child poverty. There are also pockets of greater affluence. There are high levels of morbidity, and levels and complexity of mental health problems are above the national average



Lambeth CCG and Lambeth Council want people of Lambeth to have a fully integrated and coordinated mental health system which focuses on people's strengths and supports their whole health and wellbeing. They have commissioned SLAM NHS as part of the Lambeth Living Well Network (LWN) Alliance to lead, co-ordinate and, in large part, deliver support and services for those experiencing mental health issues in Lambeth.

The Trust:

The South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) and committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, and some more specialist services to people from across the UK.



To act, alongside colleagues, as Lead Psychological Therapist for one of the place-based Living Well Centres (North) and the Tier 1 protocolised interventions service, supporting the multidisciplinary team and psychological therapies pathway in the care of complex presentations To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions for people with complex mental health presentations. The role will also involve the provision of advice, education and support to service users and their carers or family members as indicated. You will also act as the psychological therapies lead to ensure effective care between the team and the pathway, leading Tier 1 provision. This role also involves providing assessment and intervention for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms in a population with complex emotional needs. 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 supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist clinician in relevant therapies and the Tier 1 context. To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for managing care in these components of the pathway, and across relevant care teams/systems. To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development. To work as an autonomous professional within BPS/HCPC/ APC/BPC/UKCP/BACP guidelines and codes of conduct. Guided by principles and policies or procedures of SLaM and the borough, and taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters. To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved. To?utilise?theory, evidence-based literature and research to support?evidence-based?practice?and/or currently understood best practice-based evidence,?in individual work and work with other team members. Liaison with external agencies Investigations and incidents - lead on informal and formal Flow management (Capacity/Demand) for locality Ensuring staff stay up to date with developments in field Data reporting to senior leadership team, including flagging and problem solving suggestions of difficulties * The post holder will need to provide visible and effective clinical leadership to the clinical teams they supervise and be skilled in working collaboratively with others.