A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a highly valued senior leadership role with the Psychological Medicine & Older Adults (PMOA) Directorate in South London & Maudsley NHS Trust. We are seeking to appoint a psychologist, psychotherapist or psychological therapist with strong leadership skills to the post of Consultant Lead. The post would particularly suit someone with Adult or Older Adult mental health experience, particularly those interested in Community Transformation but all those meeting the person specification are welcome and encouraged to apply.
The role is key to leading and implementing the roll out of Community Transformation in MHOA. The post holder will act as professional lead for the wide range of psychological professions in the MHOA ‘mental health’ pathway (cf the dementia pathway) and will support P&P staff in these services to maintain excellent standards of care and evidence-based service delivery at a time of transformation of mental health services. As a highly valued senior member of the MHOA service the post holder will also play a key part in developing services within the directorate alongside other clinical, professional and operational colleagues.
This person appointed to this post will provide professional leadership in relation to workforce development, professional development, implementation and development of local and national guidance and protocols, and professional regulation (including HCPC) for the service that they post oversees and will be well supported by the Head of P&P for Older Adults in these tasks.
In 0.4wte this post will professionally lead and oversee the Psychology & Psychotherapy (P&P) provision within the Mental Health for Older Adults (MHOA) CMHTs, two ‘mental health’ inpatient wards (AL1 and Hayworth wards) and the Older Adult Home Treatment Teams. Alongside this there would be 0.6wte clinical input to the HTT and CMHTs and applicants will be able to demonstrate appropriate consultant level clinical expertise. They would be well supported by the Head of P&P for Older Adults as well as an 8b lead for the CMHTs.
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. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
• Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants
We are looking for excellent emerging or consolidating leadership and communication skills. You will have experience inspiring and supporting psychologists and psychotherapists (including trainees and pre-qualified staff) to work effectively, compassionately and collaboratively. You will be able to deal with multiple competing demands and you will be able to maintain your governance role whilst simultaneously having the drive and enthusiasm to support a range of colleagues undertaking MHOA service and PMOA Directorate-wide projects, service delivery and performance responsibilities.
This post also offers opportunities for research and continuing professional development.
This role will have responsibilities within the MHOA service which is within the PMOA Directorate. There are opportunities for liaison with the Kings Health Partners Older Adult Clinical Academic Group (CAG) and the Trusts Corporate Professional Leadership. The Consultant Lead postholder will support the Deputy Director for MHOA and work alongside other professional leads including the two MHOA Medical Directors and the Head of P&P for Older Adults to:
• Implement and develop strategy for the services that they oversee as well as ensure operational targets and activities appropriately reflect clinical priorities and are in line with best practice within the resources available.
• provide visible clinical leadership to P&P staff amongst others working within the mental health pathway services for older people, ensuring that there are appropriate managerial structures in place to address the professional and developmental needs of staff.
• Ensure appropriate robust clinical governance structures for P&P provision within the services that the postholder oversees to support a safe and effective service which provides access and good experience to all in the local community.
This advert closes on Monday 10 Mar 2025