The Award Winning PICuP Clinic are recruiting a specialist clinical psychologist who is able to provide a highly specialist psychology service, including cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) and trauma focussed CBT (TF-CBT) and/or EMDR, to outpatients with ongoing distressing symptoms of psychosis, bipolar disorder and/or secondary emotional difficulties and trauma, involving specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes. The suitable candidate will be able to provide specialist training in an area of expertise related to psychological interventions in psychosis and related emotional problems to colleagues in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), other NHS trusts and universities, nationally and internationally. The will be able to provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, in CBT, EMDR and/or FI for psychosis and specialist supervision and training to mental health professionals through close links with the Psychology Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course, and Post-Graduate Diploma and Certificate in CBT for psychosis courses nationally.
KR 1: Clinical and client care
KR 2: Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
KR 3: Policy and service development
KR 4: Care or management of resources
KR 5: Management and supervision
KR 6: Teaching and Training
KR 7: Record-keeping and information governance
KR 8: Research and development
KR 9: Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
The Trust employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, it provides inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
By coming to work at our Trust, you will gain experience of being part of an organization with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care.
KR 1: Clinical and client care
- To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions to clients with psychosis, bipolar disorder and complex PTSD, and their families.
- To select and deliver evidence-based specialist psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as needed. Specifically, to deliver NICE recommended CBT and FI for psychosis and/or bipolar disorder, lasting at least 16 sessions. This will include TF-CBT and EMDR if trained.
- To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions to carers or families of referred clients, including individual carer interventions.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex information to service users, families, primary and secondary care professionals and third sector workers, taking account of sensory and cultural barriers to communication.
- To provide psychological support to clients and carers who are emotionally distressed, either due to the serious consequences of their illness or due to other traumatic events in their lives.
- To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
KR 2: Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
- To contribute to the effective working of service.
- To provide expertise in psychosis, bipolar disorder, trauma/cPTSD, and working with carers, which will contribute to the service provided by the PICuP clinic.
- To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within PICuP by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychosis, bipolar disorder, trauma/cPTSD, and carers interventions by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
- To lead and continually develop PICuP’s Family and Friends Service.
- To contribute to the service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
- To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
- To advise other members of the service on the specialist psychological care of clients and carers.
- To liaise closely with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
KR 3: Policy and service development
- To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.
- To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
- To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
- To participate in clinical governance initiatives as agreed by the Directorate Clinical Governance Committee and team.
KR 4: Care or management of resources
- To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.
- To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
KR 5: Management and supervision
- To be responsible for the allocation of work, clinical supervision, and management of more junior psychologists, clinical psychology trainees, psychology assistants, support workers and volunteers, and other multi-disciplinary staff attached to the clinic, as required.
- To contribute to the appraisal of more junior colleagues, as appropriate.
- To contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychologists, as appropriate.
- To provide clinical supervision for psychological work undertaken as part of the Family and Friends Service by honorary assistant psychologists, assistant psychologists, and trainee clinical psychologists as appropriate.
- To provide specialist supervision to mental health professionals through close links with universities and Post-Graduate Diploma and Certificate in CBT for psychosis courses.
KR 6: Teaching and Training
- To provide specialist training in psychological approaches to care to other professions as appropriate.
- To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
KR 7: 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.
KR 8: Research and development
- To initiate, undertake, support and supervise regular complex service evaluation and audits relevant to PICuP service needs as required.
- To initiate and carry out research as appropriate.
- To provide expertise in a specialist research area which will contribute to the PICuP service .
- To initiate and implement the development of outcome measurement and assessment and assist other staff in the implementation of same.
KR 9: Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
- To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist according to HCPC and Trust guidelines.
- To receive specialist clinical supervision by attending fortnightly CBTp supervision groups, and additional individual supervision if required.
- To audio-record therapy sessions, with client’s consent, for the purposes of rating therapy adherence and competence.
- To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the HCPC ‘Standards for Continuing Professional Development’.
- To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.
- To comply with the HCPC ‘Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics’ and ‘Standards of Proficiency’, and ensure professional development in line with these.
- To adhere to the BPS’s Professional Practice Guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
KR10: General
- To travel to and deliver therapy in community settings, homes, and GP surgeries as appropriate and across the Trust, and to travel to other meetings when required.
- To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and to support others involved in such situations, and to provide psychological support to clients and carers who are emotionally distressed, either due to the serious consequences of their illness or due to other traumatic events in their lives.
- To work flexibly, which may include offering some occasional late clinics, within the overall Job Plan.
