South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as good.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyones potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say Im going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, youll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
About the team:
This is the Clinical Lead, Consultant Clinical Psychologist post for the SLaM Psychology in Hostels (PIH) Service. This is an innovative multi award-winning specialist homeless psychology service. For 14 years PIH has led in the development of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs) delivering Trauma Informed Approaches and developing best practice for working with excluded and multiply disadvantaged populations across Lambeth and Westminster in partnership with the third sector.
The client group experience multiple disadvantage and have high levels of complex trauma and interpersonal difficulties coupled with substance misuse issues and risk-taking behaviour. To support them we deliver a PIE approach. A PIE takes into consideration how the psychological and emotional needs of the clients are affected by the environments they inhabit and how services support them. This includes the approaches adopted by hostel and outreach staff; the training and support offered; the psychology specific interventions delivered and the integration of psychological and trauma informed approaches to the design of services. The current PIE psychology model uses Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) as well as other evidence-based treatments for working with complex needs populations (Incl. DBT, CBT, Narrative, Systemic).
Main duties of the job
About the role:
This role will lead, manage and plan the delivery of highly specialist psychology and psychotherapy services for Psychology in Hostels (PiH) partnership services delivered across Lambeth and Westminster.
The postholder will:
* Lead on winning bids, grants, tendering and commissioning, and support recommissioning, funding management and contract delivery.
* Contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create psychologically safe environments.
* Be responsible for the good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of PiH services.
* Supervise and line manage other qualified staff and oversee supervision and line management in the team.
* Continue to support the PiH service to be a national leader in service design and delivery for working with homeless people and those experiencing multiple disadvantage through the continued development of PIE practice, the evidence-base and the national agenda for the development of homeless psychology services.
This Clinical Lead role will sit within a wider Psychology in Hostels team based across Westminster and Lambeth and includes: a team administrator, Principal grade psychologist, five Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologists, seven Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologists, a Nurse Psychotherapist, an Art Therapist and several Trainee Clinical Psychologists. The service is also supported by SLaM management structures.
Working for our organisation
About the location:
This post will oversee a team based across third sector run accommodation sites (hostels and shared housing) within Lambeth and Westminster. The team has an admin base in Brixton and is also involved in home working.
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.
Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. Its important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
* Generous pay, pensions and leave
* Work life balance
* Career development
* Car lease
* Accommodation
* NHS discounts
Other benefits include:
* Counselling services
* Wellbeing events
* Long service awards
* Cycle to work scheme
* Season ticket loan
* Childcare vouchers
* Staff restaurants
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical and Client Care
* Plan, organise and ensure the delivery of psychology and psychotherapy services in Psychology in Hostels (PIH) services.
* Deliver Mentalisation-Based Treatment within the PIH team and oversee the delivery of an MBT-informed PIE PIH service.
* Provide and oversee the delivery of evidence-based and culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
Teaching, Training, and Supervision
* Be responsible for planning, organising, and the delivery of teaching and training of pre- and post-qualification psychologists and specialist training to other professions in the PiH team.
* Contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the PiH teams by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology, psychological therapies, Homelessness, PIEs, Mentalization-Based Treat (MBT) and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
* Provide clinical, professional and managerial supervision to senior members of the team for all aspects of their work.
* Coordinate and oversee the provision of a PIE training programme for third sector partners across Lambeth and Westminster delivered by the PiH team.
Team and Service Clinical Functioning
* Work with the leads/managers of other SLaM and CNWL services and of other agencies services (particularly the homeless sector) to plan and deliver joint services that are integrated around the needs of service users.
* Ensure the effective working of the team or service and a psychologically informed framework for the service.
* Advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
* Lead recruitment of all staff including the psychology and psychotherapy staff in the PiH teams.
* Support the wellbeing of the PiH teams through formal and informal systems used to identify and address issues.
Clinical and Client Care Policy and Service Development
* Lead on winning bids, grants, tendering and commissioning, and support recommissioning, funding management and contract delivery.
* Lead on developing service sustainability models, recommissioning and grant applications, including working with relevant SLaM Corporate, Legal and Contracts teams and directorate leadership as required.
* Initiate, implement and ensure appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of PiH services and in partnership organisations and services.
* Support the PiH service to be national leaders in service design and delivery for working with homeless people and those experiencing multiple disadvantage through the continued development of innovative Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) practice.
* Be responsible for applying clinical governance standards within the PiH teams and ensure that these are maintained and improved.
* Take a lead role in ensuring that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards and local authority commissioners and direct provider contracts.
Service Leadership
* Provide leadership to psychologists, psychotherapists and other professionals in the PiH teams.
* Contribute to support a service culture and values in line with Trust values as well as the teams vision of addressing health inequalities and multiple disadvantage of people experiencing homelessness, and the value of cross-sector partnership working as ways of improving clinical practice and service delivery.
Research and Service Evaluation
* Provide expertise in the highly specialist research area which contributes to PiH and PIE more broadly.
* Develop and maintain a strong research culture that values the use of outcome measures and mix-method evaluations as a way of improving clinical practice.
* Disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
Professional Responsibilities
* Receive regular clinical and professional supervision according to HCPC, BPS, or other relevant professional requirements and in-line with Trust guidelines.
* Ensure professional registration with the HCPC (for psychologists). For other therapists, ensure professional accreditation with their relevant registry body is maintained.
* Ensure that all psychology and psychotherapy staff for whom the post-holder has leadership or management responsibility, maintain professional standards and continuing professional development.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent) and extensive demonstrable practice in this field.
* Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short courses and an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher.
* Registered with HCPC and evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
* Additional postgraduate training in other relevant specialist psychological models (DBT, Systemic).
* Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT) trained.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Evidence of having worked as a clinical lead or service lead under supervision in an area of relevance (incl. complex trauma, homelessness, substance misuse and/or personality disorder).
* Experience of leading on the design, development and delivery of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs) and/or Trauma Informed Care in homeless sector settings and organisations.
* Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in PiH homeless services.
* Experience of designing services and supporting clinical teams to work with hard to reach clients or marginalised populations.
* Significant experience in staff management including line management, performance management and appraisal.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working with homeless organisations, services, and teams.
* Experience of working with commissioners and writing bids and winning grants.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Advanced knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics relevant to PiH and homeless psychology services.
* Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care and models of care required to reach diverse, excluded, and marginalised populations.
* Doctoral level knowledge or equivalent of psychological research methodology and statistical analysis.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
* Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to clients, families and colleagues.
* Highly developed skills in providing teaching and training to psychologists and other professional groups using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings, including to doctoral level.
* Skills and experience in organisational consultancy, service design and strategic leadership.
* Ability to hot desk in busy working environments.
Desirable criteria
* Significant skills in designing clinical audit projects, managing internal evaluations, external evaluation teams, implementing change and taking responsibility from end to end.
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
* Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice.
* Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment.
* We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity.
Please note:
* All applications for this post will need to be made online.
* Read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
* The closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
* Once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
* Should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful.
* Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* Should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
* We are a smoke-free Trust.
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