Psychotherapist/Psychologist/Psychological Therapist

In Lambeth Secondary Care Psychological Therapies (SCPT) we are reaching across the pathway and into community and primary care settings. Our clinicians provide a range of specialist psychological therapies for mood, anxiety, trauma related and personality difficulties for adults with long-standing and complex mental health difficulties.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced psychological therapist to join us on maternity cover secondment, focusing on close working with our first step of care - our tier 1 team - and with Lambeth's Short Term Support Team, providing clinical care to clients with complex needs, as well as overseeing and assessing new referrals to our service. In addition, the postholder will be working therapeutically in our tier 2 trauma-reliving /complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (cPTSD)reliving therapy pathway offering Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (TF-CBT) or/and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

The post is based at 151 Blackfriars road, but there is an expectation that the postholder will travel to other sites as needed. As described above, the postholder will be working in close liaison with the North Short Term Support Team (STS North Living Well Centre) and oversee the SCPT team working within that locality. This includes attending and providing input to STS Multi-disciplinary meetings, Primary Care and Alliance Network meetings, conducting joint assessments and formulations, offering training and supervision to Tier 1 SCPT staff and to STS staff.

The postholder will also work clinically on our tier 2 complex PTSD reliving therapy pathway, co-facilitating preparatory groups including our Trauma Stabilisation Group and our EMDR preparation group, as well as offering assessments and treatment for individual reliving-focused therapy, including TF-CBT and/or EMDR. Local training will in protocols will be provided and relevant supervision is available. Finally, the postholder will be involved in recruitment of new Tier 1 staff. The second largest inner London Borough with an official population of around 350,000.

The local population has needs related to a high level of social deprivation such as unemployment, poor social housing and child poverty. There are also pockets of greater affluence. There are high levels of morbidity, and levels and complexity of mental health problems are above the national averageLambeth CCG and Lambeth Council want people of Lambeth to have a fully integrated and coordinated mental health system which focuses on people’s strengths and supports their whole health and wellbeing.

They have commissioned SLAM NHS as part of the Lambeth Living Well Network (LWN) Alliance to lead, co-ordinate and, in large part, deliver support and services for those experiencing mental health issues in Lambeth. The Trust: The South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) and committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, and some more specialist services to people from across the UK. For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Hielkje Verbrugge Job title: Co-lead Lambeth SCPT Email address: hielkje. verbrugge@slam. nhs. ukPLEASE BE AWARE THIS POST MAY CLOSE SOONER THAN CLOSING DATE