Job summary
- Main area
- Practitioner Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-6817306
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- River House, Bethlem Royal Hospital
- Town
- Beckenham
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum Incl. of outer HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist / Psychological Therapist / Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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 everyone’s 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 I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity to join the psychology & psychotherapy forensic mental health team at River House, Medium Secure Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital. We have a vacancy for a Band 7 post, based on a male rehabilitation ward at River House.
Flexible working: The post is available full-time. As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 07:30 to 18:00, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. There are ample opportunities for continuing professional development and the service actively supports participation in a strong research, evaluation and audit culture.
There are strong links with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neurosciences (IoPPN), other psychology training courses, and there are opportunities to contribute to teaching, research and service evaluation.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work with the Brook Ward clinical team to deliver ward-based specialist clinical assessments and interventions, while contributing to the wider forensic psychology & psychological therapies programme across the inpatient secure services. This includes delivery of longer-term individual and group psychological therapies, from a range of modalities with an emphasis on both the treatment of psychological distress and reductions in risk.
The postholder will join a team of clinical and forensic psychologists, assistant psychologists, and therapists, who work closely with the ward multi-professional teams, under the leadership of an MSU inpatient lead psychologist.
This post is open both to candidates keen to explore the application of psychological practice to forensic settings, including newly qualified practitioners, and those experienced in the area.
Working for our organisation
The inpatient provision is part of the South London & Maudsley Forensic & Offender Health Pathway within the Behavioural & Developmental Psychiatry Operational Directorate.
The male wards include two admission wards and two wards for service users who have achieved some stability and who are making greater use of therapeutic and recovery-oriented activities. Each ward has a multi-professional team that includes dedicated qualified and assistant psychology provision. The postholder will be aligned for direct clinical service provision to one rehabilitation ward and will join a forensic clinical psychology & psychotherapy team that provides inpatient and community-based interventions.
The male medium secure inpatient provision at River House is an integral part of the South London Partnership (SLP) acute pathway and rehabilitation pathways. There are close links with low secure provision and community forensic mental health teams, as well as other mental health services, prisons and criminal justice agencies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will have a strong commitment to recovery-orientated inpatient practice with forensic mental health clients generally, and a specific interest in working with men in secure care.
To provide a specialist psychological service to Effra Ward, Medium Secure Service, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation, and monitoring of outcomes.
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.
To work as an autonomous professional within BPS / HCPC / APC / BPC / UKCP / BACP / BABCP / ADMP-UK guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work, with support of clinical supervisor.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice in this field (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration
- Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC OR registered with the professional body appropriate to professional training and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the registering body
Desirable criteria
- Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a relevant specialised area of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in a men’s secure care service
Desirable criteria
- Forensic experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and interventions for the mentally disordered population
- Knowledge of psychological assessment, risk assessments and clinical psychometrics
- Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for mental disordered offender population particularly where there is high risk to the public
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Nathan Kitchenham
- Job title
- Male MSU Lead Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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