# Consultant Psychologist/Psychotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychologistpsychotherapist/5b7200bb-13dc-4589-908e-1ff3e5d14506 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychologistpsychotherapist/5b7200bb-13dc-4589-908e-1ff3e5d14506.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £88,250 - £100,355 per annum incl. HCAs (Inner) Pro Rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-22T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-08T15:13:12.731Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/South_London_Maudsley_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychiatry/Psychiatry-v8033044 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8033044?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.slam.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview A senior clinical and leadership role within the Trauma and Dissociation Service, responsible for shaping and delivering specialist psychological care for adults with complex PTSD, trauma and dissociative disorders. The post-holder leads service strategy, clinical governance and a multidisciplinary team while providing expert assessment and therapy. It requires advanced clinical expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to drive service development, research and high-quality, inclusive care. ### Main duties of the job Lead and manage a specialist therapy service, delivering expert assessments, formulations and interventions for complex trauma cases. Oversee team performance, supervision, recruitment and training. Develop and implement service strategy, policy and governance standards. Coordinate care with internal and external partners, ensuring accessible, culturally competent services. Drive research, audit and service improvement while maintaining high professional, ethical and record-keeping standards. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Key Responsibilities Clinical Leadership and Patient Care - Lead the planning, organisation and delivery of a highly specialist psychological therapy service for individuals with complex trauma, PTSD and dissociative disorders. - Provide expert assessments, formulations and evidence-based interventions for highly complex cases, including risk assessment and management. - Ensure services are accessible, culturally appropriate and responsive to the needs of diverse communities, including work with families and carers where required. Service Delivery and Multidisciplinary Working - Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary team functioning, including chairing meetings and ensuring effective, psychologically informed practice - Work collaboratively with internal teams, external agencies, referrers and GPs to deliver integrated care pathways. - Provide expert advice and consultation on complex psychological care to colleagues and partner organisations. Strategic Development and Governance - Lead the development and implementation of service strategy, policies and clinical governance frameworks. - Drive service improvement initiatives, ensuring high-quality, efficient and evidence-based care aligned with national and Trust standards - Engage service users in service design and contribute to wider organisational strategy and innovation. Leadership, Management and Supervision - Provide leadership and operational management to a multidisciplinary team, including recruitment, appraisal and workforce development - Ensure robust clinical and professional supervision structures are in place and deliver supervision and mentoring to staff and trainees. - Deputise for senior leaders where appropriate and manage professional standards within the service. Teaching, Training and Workforce Development - Lead and deliver specialist teaching, training and clinical placements for trainees and qualified professionals. - Promote continuous learning by embedding current research and best practice into clinical work. Research, Audit and Service Evaluation - Lead and contribute to research, audit and service evaluation aligned with the service and wider organisational research agenda. - Develop outcome measures and support the use of data to inform service improvement and innovation. Governance, Resources and Professional Standards - Ensure high standards of record-keeping, information governance and clinical documentation. - Oversee the effective use of resources, including budget awareness, equipment and therapy materials. - Maintain and promote professional standards, ensuring ongoing development and compliance across the team. General Responsibilities - Contribute to a psychologically safe and supportive working environment, including staff wellbeing initiatives. - Manage complex, emotionally demanding situations and support others in doing so. - Work flexibly across the Trust, including travel for meetings and outreach activity where required. For further information please see the full job description. ## Job Details A senior clinical and leadership role within the Trauma and Dissociation Service, responsible for shaping and delivering specialist psychological care for adults with complex PTSD, trauma and dissociative disorders. The post-holder leads service strategy, clinical governance and a multidisciplinary team while providing expert assessment and therapy. It requires advanced clinical expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to drive service development, research and high-quality, inclusive care. ## Job Description Lead and manage a specialist therapy service, delivering expert assessments, formulations and interventions for complex trauma cases. Oversee team performance, supervision, recruitment and training. Develop and implement service strategy, policy and governance standards. Coordinate care with internal and external partners, ensuring accessible, culturally competent services. Drive research, audit and service improvement while maintaining high professional, ethical and record-keeping standards. ## Responsibilities Key Responsibilities Clinical Leadership and Patient Care Lead the planning, organisation and delivery of a highly specialist psychological therapy service for individuals with complex trauma, PTSD and dissociative disorders. Provide expert assessments, formulations and evidence-based interventions for highly complex cases, including risk assessment and management. Ensure services are accessible, culturally appropriate and responsive to the needs of diverse communities, including work with families and carers where required. Service Delivery and Multidisciplinary Working Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary team functioning, including chairing meetings and ensuring effective, psychologically informed practice Work collaboratively with internal teams, external agencies, referrers and GPs to deliver integrated care pathways. Provide expert advice and consultation on complex psychological care to colleagues and partner organisations. Strategic Development and Governance Lead the development and implementation of service strategy, policies and clinical governance frameworks. Drive service improvement initiatives, ensuring high-quality, efficient and evidence-based care aligned with national and Trust standards Engage service users in service design and contribute to wider organisational strategy and innovation. Leadership, Management and Supervision Provide leadership and operational management to a multidisciplinary team, including recruitment, appraisal and workforce development Ensure robust clinical and professional supervision structures are in place and deliver supervision and mentoring to staff and trainees. Deputise for senior leaders where appropriate and manage professional standards within the service. Teaching, Training and Workforce Development Lead and deliver specialist teaching, training and clinical placements for trainees and qualified professionals. Promote continuous learning by embedding current research and best practice into clinical work. Research, Audit and Service Evaluation Lead and contribute to research, audit and service evaluation aligned with the service and wider organisational research agenda. Develop outcome measures and support the use of data to inform service improvement and innovation. Governance, Resources and Professional Standards Ensure high standards of record-keeping, information governance and clinical documentation. Oversee the effective use of resources, including budget awareness, equipment and therapy materials. Maintain and promote professional standards, ensuring ongoing development and compliance across the team. General Responsibilities Contribute to a psychologically safe and supportive working environment, including staff wellbeing initiatives. Manage complex, emotionally demanding situations and support others in doing so. Work flexibly across the Trust, including travel for meetings and outreach activity where required. For further information please see the full job description. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - - To deliver specialist therapy across cultural and other differences - - To select and administer specialist assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources, on which expert opinion may differ - - To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information - - To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers (and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews where appropriate). - - Well-developed IT skills ### Abilities **Essential** - - Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles - - Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate - - Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings - - Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these - - Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour ### Knowledge **Essential** - - Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership - - Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment - - Advanced knowledge of the theory of psychological practice/processes and their therapeutic application. - - Awareness of assessment and clinical psychometrics - - Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities. ### Experience **Essential** - - Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in a trauma focused service - - Experience of undertaking leadership roles - - Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in a trauma focused service - - Experience of supervising assistants and trainees having completed the relevant training - - Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy and demonstrable practice in this field (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 475.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10320731) - [slam staff benefits (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2341) - [happy to talk flexible working (pdf, 680.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1723) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.