Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Lead, PIH

Maudsley Learning
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Lead, PIH NHS AfC: Band 8c Main area Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Lead Grade NHS AfC: Band 8c Contract Permanent: Some days on site, some WFH, as needed. Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Requires travel to homeless hostels in Lambeth and Westminster.) Job ref 334-CLI-

Site 308 Brixton Road Town Brixton , London Salary £82,462 – £93,773 Pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 23/02/:59

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 providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission 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 have 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 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 experiences multiple disadvantage and has 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).

The interviews will be held Friday 7th March, in person, in Brixton.

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 creating 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.
• 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.

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 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
• Car lease
• Accommodation
• NHS discounts

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• 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 delivering 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 Treatment (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 . click apply for full job details