South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist
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Job Description
To provide highly specialist psychological interventions to adults with learning disabilities with additional mental health needs and/or behaviour which challenges, including specialist assessment, treatment, training to other staff, 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, functioning as a lead specialist in MHLD.
To undertake service evaluation, audit and research and policy development.
To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
To contribute psychological expertise within the wider multi-agency context.
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To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
Clinical & Client Care (KR 1)
Team Functioning & Diversity (KR 2)
Service Development & Policy (KR 3 & 8)
Management, Supervision & Training (KR 5 & 6)
Governance, Professional Standards & Research (KR 4, 7, 9 & 10)
The Psychology service forms part of the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities (MHLD) Service within the Croydon and Behavioural and Developmental Psychiatry Directorate. Psychology and Behavioural Support Practitioners are led by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and borough Team Leaders. Clinical work is delivered within separate borough teams (Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark), each managed by a Team Leader. Opportunities exist for service developments and CPD across boroughs and the wider Trust. Lambeth and Southwark teams are at the Maudsley Hospital; the Lewisham team is in central Catford, co-located with Lewisham CTLD staff from Guy's and St Thomas' Trust.
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Each team comprises clinical psychologists, a Behavioural Support Practitioner, trainees, psychiatrists, CPNs, and administrators. We partner with CTLD health and social care colleagues. Service users live alone, with families, or in supported living. Both direct and indirect interventions aim to reduce challenging behaviour, improve mental health, recovery, and quality of life. Consultation and training are major components, often delivered with the Estia Centre (the Directorate’s training arm).
Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark are inner London boroughs with highly diverse ethnic minority populations.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Barbara Barter
- Job title: Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: Barbara.Barter@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 020322885539
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