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Job requirements
Essential
12 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of delivering group psychological work
- Experience
Experience of delivering individual psychological treatment work
- Experience
Ability to engage with a variety of services and community partners and stakeholders, and to expand existing networks, and to nurture and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders
- Experience
Understand how to analyse and appraise key theoretical concepts of psychological models of treatment both at individual and group level recognised in evidence-based national guidelines
- Experience
Communicate effectively, share information and check understanding using clear language and appropriate, written materials, making reasonable adjustments where appropriate in order to optimise people’s understanding
- Qualifications
Completed BPS [British Psychological Society] accredited CAP or MHWP apprenticeship training programme including EPA to IFA standards.
- Qualifications
Registered as a CAP or MHWP with either the BPS or BABCP.
- Knowledge and Skills
To be able to facilitate a group programme
- Knowledge and Skills
To able to work therapeutically with people with SMI
- Knowledge and Skills
To be able to assess and formulate someone’s experiences drawing on a range of psychological models and theory
- Knowledge and Skills
Awareness of diversity of cultural norms across the borough, and being able to respond to this appropriately
- Knowledge and Skills
Understand the principles of clinical supervision using them to provide a safe and supportive environment to reflect, review and discuss personal and professional responses to work
Desirable
12 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
At least one-year post-qualification experience
- Experience
Lived experience of using services, and/or being a carer for someone
- Experience
Experience of psychological work with people with SMI
- Qualifications
Post registration qualification in specialty
- Qualifications
Evidence of continuing professional development
- Qualifications
Training in SCM or other evidence-based intervention for this client group
- Qualifications
Post-registration qualification/ accreditation relevant to the post
- Knowledge and Skills
Experience of working closely experts-by-experience, local communities, Community and Voluntary and Social Enterprises, to co-produce and co-develop services
- Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge and implementation of local, regional and national policy
- Knowledge and Skills
Able to understand and critically appraise best evidence and existing practice to inform clinical decision making where there is no agreed consensus on treatment protocols and evaluate outcome
- Knowledge and Skills
Understand and utilise learning styles, tools and techniques that can be used to support learning
- Knowledge and Skills
Experienced in using a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies relevant to situation and service context that draw on specialist psychological tools to collect data to evaluate own practice as well as to enhance service delivery
Job overview
We are seeking to employ and support a Band 6 Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP)/ Senior Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (SMHWP). The CAP/ SMHWP will be already trained in the delivery of low-medium intensity psychological formulation, assessment and treatment in Adult Secondary Care Health or Secondary Care Mental Health settings. The post holder will sit within the new innovative TUNE-UP MDT to support delivery of behavioural and psychological components of a 12-month group weight management intervention for people with severe mental illness (mainly schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar). This adapts an approach offered for the general population. As part of the 12-month programme, patients will receive a set number of dietetic, physiotherapy, and psychology sessions +/- endocrinology/psychiatry support as necessary (eg if a weight loss medication is indicated, or a change in psychiatric medication is indicated).
Applications are welcome from qualified, experienced and accredited practitioners – Clinical Associates in Psychology and Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners.
This role would be a great step into working in the expanding Long Term Health Conditions/ Mental Health space.
The post holder will need an interest in physical health, and in working with people with SMI.
The post holder will work a normal shift pattern of Monday- Friday 9:00-17:00.
Main duties of the job
They will deliver a high quality and structured psychological pyscho education and treatment approach. This will be primarily as part of a small group programme, but also involve some individual programmes around weight loss and management.
The work undertaken will be supervised regularly by a Senior Specialist Psychologist who will provide governance for the clinical work carried out.
The TUNE-UP (Treating Unmet NEeds in Psychiatry) clinic is a specialist Maudsley Hospital pilot service designed to provide gold-standard weight-loss interventions—including GLP-1 weight-loss injections—for patients with severe mental illnesses like psychosis and obesity.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working with multi disciplinary colleagues as part of a team delivering the programme.
This is not intended to be a traditional specialist psychotherapy post. Rather, the role is focused on supporting behaviour change, engagement, psychoeducation, and psychologically informed lifestyle interventions within a physical health service model, including support around emotional and behavioural relationships with food, motivation for change, and adjustment to lifestyle interventions. Some sessions will be delivered to small groups, and some will be online. The postholder would work within structured care pathways and under structured senior supervision.
The characteristics of the core population receiving direct services are people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) who may have experienced adverse life events and socio-economic disadvantages.
The TUNE UP service users will have their general mental health care provided separately, for example through a CMHT.
there will be regular senior psychology supervision from the Guy's & St Thomas (GSTT) Tier 3 weight management service, including weekly Band 8 psychology input.
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.
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This advert is for Clinical Associate in Psychology/ Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £47,951 - £56,863 per annum inclusive of HCAs (inner) pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 12 Nov 2026.
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