Job summary
We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our team as a Psychological Therapist in training. This is an exciting role created by NHS England to support the transformation of adult community mental health services. Your training will be fully funded by the NHS, and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position if you become an accredited therapist following successful progression through and completion of the two-year course.As a psychological therapist in training, 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 Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosis and Bipolar or Personality Disorders.
Main duties of the job
Applicants must enrol in the specified further therapies training. Posts are training positions. Progression into a permanent contract is subject to becoming an accredited therapist following successful completion of the two-year course.
To work as a psychological therapist in training in Lambeth Community and Inpatient Mental Health Services, managing assessments, formulation, and interventions, providing a psychological therapy service to the teams and for people with serious mental health conditions.
In the multi-disciplinary teams you will offer a range of advice, consultation and joint working, supported through your supervision.
To work in liaise with the locality community and inpatient mental health team and associated stakeholders
To work in a specialist therapy pathway, undertaking training in 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 CBT (via the chosen NHSE programme), and become qualified therapists on completing their training.
Working relationships: Modality/team lead/senior psychological therapist - weekly; Line/professional manager - monthly; Teams - daily; 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
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.
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 mostly face to face working with the possibility of some remote working.
Lambeth is a borough of high social and psychological needs with considerable cultural diversity. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On a day to day basis, your job will comprise three main areas. You will spend a day training, and four days supporting the inpatient and community teams, providing MDT input, joint working and specific case consultation and formulations. The rest of your time will focus on clinical work, group and individual, and supporting families and caregivers.
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 serious mental health problems 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 comprise three main areas. You will spend a day training, and four days supporting the inpatient and community teams, providing MDT input, joint working and specific case consultation and formulations. The rest of your time will focus on clinical work, group and individual, and supporting families and caregivers.
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 serious mental health problems 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
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in mental health or learning disability nursing, social work, counselling (accredited level), occupational therapy, arts therapy, medicine (psychiatry / general practice), psychological therapy (UKCP registered), Psychology (clinical, counselling, forensic or health). Please see the BABCP website for more detail of accepted qualifications. OR Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP. Please see the BABCP website for more detail of KSA requirements.
- Will register on approved modality specific training upon appointment
- Essential Requirements Able to attend 70-80 days training over a 2-year course. Including a day per week, and 5-day intensive teaching blocks. This may involve significant travel and overnight stays to attend university. Able to complete academic components of the course Able to integrate training into practice
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services for people with severe mental health problems
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
Desirable
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Computer literate Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues and child protection.
- Knowledge of racial and other diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care.
- Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mental health difficulties and how it may present in Secondary Care Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other mental health problems Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively Ability to work under pressure Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
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
- Ability to deliver psychological therapy in another locally relevant language.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in mental health or learning disability nursing, social work, counselling (accredited level), occupational therapy, arts therapy, medicine (psychiatry / general practice), psychological therapy (UKCP registered), Psychology (clinical, counselling, forensic or health). Please see the BABCP website for more detail of accepted qualifications. OR Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP. Please see the BABCP website for more detail of KSA requirements.
- Will register on approved modality specific training upon appointment
- Essential Requirements Able to attend 70-80 days training over a 2-year course. Including a day per week, and 5-day intensive teaching blocks. This may involve significant travel and overnight stays to attend university. Able to complete academic components of the course Able to integrate training into practice
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services for people with severe mental health problems
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
Desirable
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Computer literate Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues and child protection.
- Knowledge of racial and other diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care.
- Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mental health difficulties and how it may present in Secondary Care Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other mental health problems Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively Ability to work under pressure Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
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
- Ability to deliver psychological therapy in another locally relevant language.
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).
