Assistant Psychologist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,944 - £34,937 per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7259344/334-CLI-7259344 |
Summary
You will be based at the Psychological Interventions Clinic for oUtpatients with Psychosis (PICuP), based at the Maudsley Hospital, with the purpose of assisting practitioner psychologists in the delivery of a specialist outpatient cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis (CBTp) service. Some outreach work at other team bases in the Trust will be required including in Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth and Croydon.
• To assist with monitoring all referrals to the PICuP clinic.
• To assist in clinically related administrative tasks.
• To assist with carrying out the initial assessments for all appropriate referrals to the team using a battery of standardised assessment measures and to score these measures.
• To write reports to clients and referrers based on the findings of the assessment.
• To repeat the assessments at further time points for people who engage in therapy.
• To assist with the collation of monthly therapy activity figures for presentation at senior management finance meetings.
• To assist in the preparation of the team’s annual business report.
• To assist with collection of data, developing/assisting with audit and/or research projects as required, preparing reports for meetings.
• To work following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service and Trust, while closely supervised and regularly seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager.
• To provide clinical work as required by the service, under the direct guidance, close clinical and professional supervision of a practitioner psychologist.
PICuP is an award winning specialist psychology service, providing cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) and Family Interventions (FI) for individuals with distressing psychotic experiences, as well as additional or secondary mental health difficulties. PICuP is based at the Maudsley Hospital, Camberwell. It is a national service and also takes referrals from around London and the South East, although most of the referrals are from SLaM.
The client group is highly heterogeneous, ranging from those who require help with a single symptom (such as hearing voices or a persecutory delusion), to individuals with long-term involvement with services and complex presentations. The targets of intervention also vary widely, from distressing psychotic experiences to emotional problems within the context of a history of psychosis and/or bipolar disorder, as well as relapse prevention or interpersonal difficulties.
PICuP offers a peer support service to people referred to the team. The service enables people to learn about therapy from those who have already benefited from it and offers support to enable people to attend sessions. PICuP is also involved in training mental health professionals in specialist CBT and FI for psychosis skills. PICuP is entirely psychology-led, headed by Dr Emmanuelle Peters and coordinated by Dr Nadine Keen.
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical and Client Care
• To assist with monitoring all referrals to the clinic, which will involve liaising closely with the PICuP Assistant Psychologists, administrator and coordinator, as well as the local clinical referring teams, GPs, and clients.
• To carry out initial assessments, consisting of a battery of standardised measures, for all new accepted referrals under the close supervision of a practitioner psychologist.
• To repeat the assessments at further time points (e.g. pre-therapy and end of therapy) for people who engage in therapy, which will require liaising with PICuP therapists.
• To score and enter data from the assessments.
• To write reports back to the referrers based on the assessment measures.
• To help prepare reports for the PICuP management meetings.
Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
• To assist with clinically related key administrative tasks which will involve liaising closely with the PICuP administrator and PICuP Assistant Psychologists.
• To contribute to the effective working of the PICuP team by assisting with monitoring all referrals to the team, maintaining a detailed and accurate database to keep track of all clients throughout the course of therapy with PICuP, to conduct clinical assessments and liaise with referrers, clients, PICuP administrators and therapists during this process.
• To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
• To participate in the service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
Teaching and Training
• To participate in demonstrating work methods to newly recruited Assistant Psychologists and honorary Assistant Psychologists and to support their development of necessary skills.
Research and development
• To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects conducted within the team as required.
• To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes as required.
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Jun 2025