Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,387.00 to £80,465.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £70387.00 - £80465.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE5 8AZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0720 |
Summary
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.