Job requirements
Essential
20 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences
- Skills
To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
- Skills
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
- Skills
To be skilled in the administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials
- Skills
Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data
- Abilities
Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles
- Abilities
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
- Abilities
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
- Abilities
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
- Abilities
Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self
- Knowledge
Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment of first episode psychosis
- Knowledge
Knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics for psychosis
- Knowledge
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities
- Knowledge
Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care
- Experience
Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs
- Experience
Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature, including clients with psychosis and people who have experienced trauma
- Experience
Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience
- Experience
Experience of developing and carrying out research, audit or service evaluation projects
- Qualifications
Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent 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
- Qualifications
Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist (or with other professional body appropriate to discipline, e.g. APC/BPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP), and evidence of required continuing professional development
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of CBT for psychosis models through formal training
- Experience
Experience of working in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service
- Qualifications
PG Dip or Cert in CBT for psychosis
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist to work with our STEP (Southwark Team for Early Psychosis). This is our Early Interventions for Psychosis (EIP) service, offering a psychological therapy service to patients and their networks. This is a fixed term temporary position for 12 months.
We are looking for a motivated clinician who is passionate about working in an early intervention service with people with a diagnosis of psychosis and with their families and networks. The successful applicant will have good engagement skills, think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of skills in working collaboratively alongside others. Southwark is a racially and ethnically diverse borough and we are looking for a clinician who can work with cultural humility and will actively support our anti-racism agenda.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will contribute to the work of the STEP team providing direct and indirect psychological therapeutic interventions for patients, groups and families. Direct, evidence-based, interventions include CBT for psychosis, trauma-focussed CBT, EMDR, CBT-based family interventions, Open Dialogue, Systemic Family Therapy and Arts Therapies.
Within Southwark we offer psychological therapies on a stepped-care basis, therefore group work, and supporting the delivery of low intensity interventions, are also part of the role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a specialist psychological interventions for the STEP team including specialist assessment, treatment, 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 specialist for the STEP team.
- To promote service evaluation, audit, 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 support staff support initiatives within their area, working with senior colleagues and, Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy, where appropriate, to support colleagues and ensure staff in SLaM have access to evidence based support. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
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 Practitioner Psychologist / Psychological Therapist / Psychotherapist with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Beckenham, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive of HCAS (Inner). The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term: 12 months or Secondment). The application deadline is 23 Sep 2026.
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