Job description

We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our team as a Psychological Therapist in training.This is an exciting brand-new role created by Health Education England and NHS England and Improvement 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 completion of the 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 either Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Personality Disorders (CBT-PD).

Applicants must enrol in further therapies training for either DBT or CBT- PD. Posts are training positions. Progression into a permanent contract is subject to becoming an accredited therapist following successful completion of the course.

To work as a psychological therapist in training 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.

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. To work in 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 (dialectical behaviour therapy, 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.

Working relationships: Modality lead/senior modality psychological therapist – weekly; Line/professional manager – monthly; Team – weekly; Service users – daily

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 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.

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, 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 Trust’s 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 employer’s 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.

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