Job summary
Do you want to develop and use your whole range of CAP skills? Do you want to develop further and practice your skills working with clients with complex needs, offering transformative and integrated care at secondary care level?
We are reaching across the pathway and into community and primary care settings, using systemic and community psychology understandings. As a Clinical Associates Psychologist, you will provide invaluable input to our community mental health teams and offer low intensity, high quality interventions, as well as engage in further training in either Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Personality Disorders (CBT-PD).
In the multi-disciplinary CMHT you will offer a range of advice, consultation and joint working to the CMHT, particularly in complex affective /anxiety / trauma and personality disorders, supported through your supervision.
Applicants must be qualified CAPs and must be interested and committed to enrol in further therapies training for either DBT or CBT- PD.
We believe strongly in staff development and have excellent opportunities to develop this through CPD opportunities across SLaM and through strong links with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
The position is full-time and will involve both remote and face to face working.
Lambeth is a borough of high social and psychological needs with considerable cultural diversity. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds.
Main duties of the job
To work as a qualified Clinical Associate Psychologist in Lambeth Secondary Care Psychological Therapies, managing referral, triage and Tier 1 interventions, providing a psychological therapy service for people with serious mental health conditions.
To work in and liaise with the locality community mental health team and associated stakeholders
To work in a Tier 2 or 3 therapy pathway, undertaking training in a specific therapy modality (e.g. dialectical behaviour therapy, mentalisation based, or cognitive behavioural therapy), and delivering group and individual interventions in accordance with the training and experience under the supervision of a senior psychological therapist, qualified in that modality, and ultimately under the professional supervision of a clinical psychologist.
This is a training post: postholders will be expected to train in MBT, CBT or DBT (via HEE programme) as needed by the service, and become qualified therapists on completing their training, while continuing to work as a CAP.
Working relationships: Modality lead/senior modality psychological therapist - weekly; Line/professional manager - monthly; Team - weekly; Service users - daily
About us
Lambeth: 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On a day to day basis, your job will likely feel like comprising of three main areas. You will spend a day to day and a half working with your specific locality's short term support team (CMHT), providing MDT input and specific case consultation and formulations. The rest of your time will focus on clinical work, which can be divided into tier 1 and tier 2/3 work. In tier 1 you will be providing brief groups and individual protocolised interventions. In tier 2 or 3, depending on the training route you will be taking, you will be focused on developing skills and experience in providing a specific treatment modality under formal training and close supervision. Within your overall jobplan will be time for supervision, admin and attending meetings as well.
Your main responsibilities will fall under 9 categories. For full details, please see job description. We have put examples of what falls under each category below as well.
Client Care
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary community team or in specialised clinical settings and liaise with relevant external agencies to facilitate and enable psychological interventions
- Undertake training in a specific therapy modality for working with people with complex affective, trauma or personality presentations (i.e. cognitive behavioural therapy, mentalisation based therapy, or dialectical behaviour therapy) to become a qualified and accredited therapist
Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
- Providing a range of psychological treatments working within their scope of practice and competence, under supervision
- Planning, delivering and evaluating psychological interventions which may include more long-term and complex presentations
- Acting as a psychological resource to the wider health or social care teams including residential settings
- Using a range of evidence-based psychological models and protocols when addressing individualised patient need and critically appraise these models and interventions to inform treatment planning and appropriate choice of treatment protocols and understand how to interpret treatment choices with individuals, groups and other healthcare colleagues, when managing complex and chronic needs
- Understanding how psychological interventions may impact upon self-management strategies and action plans already in place and that they should minimise harm, maximise benefits and result in improvement of overall quality of life indices
- To develop collaborative formulations with patients so as to sense-check understandings and influence delivery of evidenced-based individualised psychological interventions.
- To actively engage patients in treatment regimes to address and resolve emotive contexts and circumstances.
Policy and service development
- Participate in the delivery of audit and service improvement projects leading to the continuous enhancement and quality improvement of clinical practice
- Use applied service research and evaluation to inform interventions
- Use a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies relevant to situation and service context
Care or management of resources
- To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.
Management and supervision
- To be accountable for professionals delivering psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and research within their scope of practice
- To manage a caseload while undertaking their own clinical programmes of work, within their scope of practice
- To understand the appropriate boundaries of professional competency in offering support and supervision and work within the scope of practice of the role and within the bounds of professional competence, in line with employers requirements around values, conduct and ethics
Teaching and Training
- To deliver as needed in-service training workshops and seminars on relevant topics for practitioners e.g. nurses, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatric staff and to take a leading role in contributing to multidisciplinary training events which may be organised by other staff within the Trust.
- To provide supervision to, e.g., placement students, clinical support worker, assistant psychologists and clinical associate psychologists in training, informally and formally in line with role boundaries of own qualifications.
Record-keeping and Information Governance
- To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
Research and development
- To contribute to service evaluation and audit as directed by and under the guidance of supervisors and modality/professional leads
Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
- To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior modality psychological therapist according to BPS and Trust guidelines.
- To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with the Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and professional guidelines
- In all clinical and professional activities, act in accordance with the BPS Professional Code of Conduct, identifying and challenging discriminatory behaviour
Note: Ad may close early if high number of applicants.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On a day to day basis, your job will likely feel like comprising of three main areas. You will spend a day to day and a half working with your specific locality's short term support team (CMHT), providing MDT input and specific case consultation and formulations. The rest of your time will focus on clinical work, which can be divided into tier 1 and tier 2/3 work. In tier 1 you will be providing brief groups and individual protocolised interventions. In tier 2 or 3, depending on the training route you will be taking, you will be focused on developing skills and experience in providing a specific treatment modality under formal training and close supervision. Within your overall jobplan will be time for supervision, admin and attending meetings as well.
Your main responsibilities will fall under 9 categories. For full details, please see job description. We have put examples of what falls under each category below as well.
Client Care
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary community team or in specialised clinical settings and liaise with relevant external agencies to facilitate and enable psychological interventions
- Undertake training in a specific therapy modality for working with people with complex affective, trauma or personality presentations (i.e. cognitive behavioural therapy, mentalisation based therapy, or dialectical behaviour therapy) to become a qualified and accredited therapist
Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
- Providing a range of psychological treatments working within their scope of practice and competence, under supervision
- Planning, delivering and evaluating psychological interventions which may include more long-term and complex presentations
- Acting as a psychological resource to the wider health or social care teams including residential settings
- Using a range of evidence-based psychological models and protocols when addressing individualised patient need and critically appraise these models and interventions to inform treatment planning and appropriate choice of treatment protocols and understand how to interpret treatment choices with individuals, groups and other healthcare colleagues, when managing complex and chronic needs
- Understanding how psychological interventions may impact upon self-management strategies and action plans already in place and that they should minimise harm, maximise benefits and result in improvement of overall quality of life indices
- To develop collaborative formulations with patients so as to sense-check understandings and influence delivery of evidenced-based individualised psychological interventions.
- To actively engage patients in treatment regimes to address and resolve emotive contexts and circumstances.
Policy and service development
- Participate in the delivery of audit and service improvement projects leading to the continuous enhancement and quality improvement of clinical practice
- Use applied service research and evaluation to inform interventions
- Use a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies relevant to situation and service context
Care or management of resources
- To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.
Management and supervision
- To be accountable for professionals delivering psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and research within their scope of practice
- To manage a caseload while undertaking their own clinical programmes of work, within their scope of practice
- To understand the appropriate boundaries of professional competency in offering support and supervision and work within the scope of practice of the role and within the bounds of professional competence, in line with employers requirements around values, conduct and ethics
Teaching and Training
- To deliver as needed in-service training workshops and seminars on relevant topics for practitioners e.g. nurses, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatric staff and to take a leading role in contributing to multidisciplinary training events which may be organised by other staff within the Trust.
- To provide supervision to, e.g., placement students, clinical support worker, assistant psychologists and clinical associate psychologists in training, informally and formally in line with role boundaries of own qualifications.
Record-keeping and Information Governance
- To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
Research and development
- To contribute to service evaluation and audit as directed by and under the guidance of supervisors and modality/professional leads
Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
- To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior modality psychological therapist according to BPS and Trust guidelines.
- To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with the Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and professional guidelines
- In all clinical and professional activities, act in accordance with the BPS Professional Code of Conduct, identifying and challenging discriminatory behaviour
Note: Ad may close early if high number of applicants.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- An approved qualification in psychology conferring eligibility for graduate basis for registration with the British Psychological Society, (Class 2.2 or higher)
- Completed BPS [British Psychological Society] accredited CAP apprenticeship training programme including EPA to IFA standards
- Will register on approved modality specific training upon appointment
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of having worked in adult community mental health services as a Clinical Associate Psychologist in training carrying out assessments and both group and individual interventions according to protocol and under supervision
- Experience of assessment, formulation and ntervention with individuals with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health.
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
- Experienced in using a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies relevant to situation and service context that draw on specialist psychological tools to collect data to evaluate own practice as well as to enhance service delivery
Desirable
- Experience of working closely expertsby-experience, local communities, Community and Voluntary and Social Enterprises, to co-produce and co-develop services
- Lived experience of using services, and/or being a carer for someone
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Understand the range of behavioural change models, including health belief models, and interventions that promote mental health for the populations (e.g. Ecological Model; Community Psychology)
- Understand how to analyse and appraise key theoretical concepts of psychological models of treatment both at individual and group level recognised in evidence-based national guidelines.
- Understand the principles of clinical supervision using them to provide a safe and supportive environment to reflect, review and discuss personal and professional responses to work
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues and child protection.
- Knowledge of the range of legal, ethical, professional, financial and organisational policies and procedures that apply to clinical research activities
- Knowledge of racial and other diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care.
Desirable
- Awareness of diversity of cultural norms across the borough, and being able to respond to this appropriately
- Knowledge and implementation of local, regional and national policy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- An approved qualification in psychology conferring eligibility for graduate basis for registration with the British Psychological Society, (Class 2.2 or higher)
- Completed BPS [British Psychological Society] accredited CAP apprenticeship training programme including EPA to IFA standards
- Will register on approved modality specific training upon appointment
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of having worked in adult community mental health services as a Clinical Associate Psychologist in training carrying out assessments and both group and individual interventions according to protocol and under supervision
- Experience of assessment, formulation and ntervention with individuals with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health.
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
- Experienced in using a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies relevant to situation and service context that draw on specialist psychological tools to collect data to evaluate own practice as well as to enhance service delivery
Desirable
- Experience of working closely expertsby-experience, local communities, Community and Voluntary and Social Enterprises, to co-produce and co-develop services
- Lived experience of using services, and/or being a carer for someone
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Understand the range of behavioural change models, including health belief models, and interventions that promote mental health for the populations (e.g. Ecological Model; Community Psychology)
- Understand how to analyse and appraise key theoretical concepts of psychological models of treatment both at individual and group level recognised in evidence-based national guidelines.
- Understand the principles of clinical supervision using them to provide a safe and supportive environment to reflect, review and discuss personal and professional responses to work
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues and child protection.
- Knowledge of the range of legal, ethical, professional, financial and organisational policies and procedures that apply to clinical research activities
- Knowledge of racial and other diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care.
Desirable
- Awareness of diversity of cultural norms across the borough, and being able to respond to this appropriately
- Knowledge and implementation of local, regional and national policy
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Lambeth Secondary Care Psychological Therapies
151 Blackfriar's Road
London
SE1 8EL
Employer's website
https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
