Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 25 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £70,387 - £80,465 per annum incl. of HCAs pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SE5 8AZ |
| Cwmni: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6632914/334-CLI-6632914 |
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A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
• The Helping Families Team is a clinical team within the Centre for Parent and Child Support, which is part of SlaM’s National and Specialist CAMHS provision.
• The team work in partnership and across Adult, Perinatal and CAMHS Directorates
• The role will interest clinicians who are highly skilled and experienced at engaging with families who are impacted on by parental mental health and other stresses.
• The role involves the systematic and ecological assessment of parental mental health and the delivery of a range of specialist evidence-based parenting interventions developed in the Centre.
• You will take a senior role in providing clinical supervision to colleagues and providing expertise in the assessment and management of clinical risk, as well as providing guidance and leadership in regard to child and adult safeguarding.
• You will be a strong, compassionate and motivating leader and line-manager invested in work force development.
• You are required to take a leadership role in enabling staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• You will take a leadership role in the collection of routine outcomes, as well as the coordination of service evaluation, service development, intervention development and research.
• Coordination and systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service to families impacted on by parental mental health.
• Ability to assess, manage and supervise clinical risk, and child and adult safeguarding
• Specialist psychological assessment of parental mental health and family functioning
• Highly skilled in the clinical application of the Helping Families Programme to families with complex presentations
• Confident and skilled in engaging with parents who are experiencing significant mental health difficulties and are likely to have had significant input from a range of services over a long period of time.
• Ability to create a supportive, connected, facilitative, influential and purposeful partnerships with families, colleagues and multi-agencies.
• Coordination and development of specialist peer-led parenting group interventions
• Regular and reflective clinical supervision to colleagues
• Service evaluation, audit and research
About our locations: Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
The HFT are based in the Michael Rutter Centre on the Maudsley Hospital site. Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants. We provide services across the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Croydon and Southwark. (Due to move to the Pears Maudsley Children and Young People (PMCYP) at the Maudsley Hospital in early 2026)
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm giving you the very best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)
• The Helping Families Team is a Parental Mental Health team. The service aims to disrupt the intergenerational transmission of mental illness and mental health challenges.
• To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of psychological assessment and intervention to a highly specialist parental mental health service and personally provide highly specialist clinical input.
• To provide clinical leadership in supporting the development of an innovative and evidence-based service to disrupt the intergenerational transmission of mental health challenges
• Clinical application and supervision of the Helping Families Programme, Being a Parent-Enjoying Family Life Group and Baby and Us-Perinatal, as well as other evidence-based interventions designed and disseminated within the Centre.
• The evidence-based interventions
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To act as Deputy Lead Clinician, within HFT, taking responsibility for child and adult safeguarding and clinical risk management of families.
• To provide consultation to SLaM colleagues and multi-agency professionals and functioning as a lead specialist in parental mental health.
• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychologists and multi-disciplinary colleagues within the Helping Families Team and across the CPCS.
• Provision of professional training in the Helping Families Programme, Family Partnership Model and Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities group interventions.
• To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• To work as an autonomous professional within HCPC guidelines and professional codes of conduct, 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 10 Aug 2025
• The Helping Families Team is a clinical team within the Centre for Parent and Child Support, which is part of SlaM’s National and Specialist CAMHS provision.
• The team work in partnership and across Adult, Perinatal and CAMHS Directorates
• The role will interest clinicians who are highly skilled and experienced at engaging with families who are impacted on by parental mental health and other stresses.
• The role involves the systematic and ecological assessment of parental mental health and the delivery of a range of specialist evidence-based parenting interventions developed in the Centre.
• You will take a senior role in providing clinical supervision to colleagues and providing expertise in the assessment and management of clinical risk, as well as providing guidance and leadership in regard to child and adult safeguarding.
• You will be a strong, compassionate and motivating leader and line-manager invested in work force development.
• You are required to take a leadership role in enabling staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• You will take a leadership role in the collection of routine outcomes, as well as the coordination of service evaluation, service development, intervention development and research.
• Coordination and systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service to families impacted on by parental mental health.
• Ability to assess, manage and supervise clinical risk, and child and adult safeguarding
• Specialist psychological assessment of parental mental health and family functioning
• Highly skilled in the clinical application of the Helping Families Programme to families with complex presentations
• Confident and skilled in engaging with parents who are experiencing significant mental health difficulties and are likely to have had significant input from a range of services over a long period of time.
• Ability to create a supportive, connected, facilitative, influential and purposeful partnerships with families, colleagues and multi-agencies.
• Coordination and development of specialist peer-led parenting group interventions
• Regular and reflective clinical supervision to colleagues
• Service evaluation, audit and research
About our locations: Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
The HFT are based in the Michael Rutter Centre on the Maudsley Hospital site. Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants. We provide services across the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Croydon and Southwark. (Due to move to the Pears Maudsley Children and Young People (PMCYP) at the Maudsley Hospital in early 2026)
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm giving you the very best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)
• The Helping Families Team is a Parental Mental Health team. The service aims to disrupt the intergenerational transmission of mental illness and mental health challenges.
• To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of psychological assessment and intervention to a highly specialist parental mental health service and personally provide highly specialist clinical input.
• To provide clinical leadership in supporting the development of an innovative and evidence-based service to disrupt the intergenerational transmission of mental health challenges
• Clinical application and supervision of the Helping Families Programme, Being a Parent-Enjoying Family Life Group and Baby and Us-Perinatal, as well as other evidence-based interventions designed and disseminated within the Centre.
• The evidence-based interventions
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To act as Deputy Lead Clinician, within HFT, taking responsibility for child and adult safeguarding and clinical risk management of families.
• To provide consultation to SLaM colleagues and multi-agency professionals and functioning as a lead specialist in parental mental health.
• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychologists and multi-disciplinary colleagues within the Helping Families Team and across the CPCS.
• Provision of professional training in the Helping Families Programme, Family Partnership Model and Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities group interventions.
• To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• To work as an autonomous professional within HCPC guidelines and professional codes of conduct, 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 10 Aug 2025