Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist
| Posting date: | 19 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Location: | Lambeth, SW9 9NU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0941 |
Summary
To provide a highly specialist psychological therapy service, as part of a multidisciplinary inpatient team, to service users, and where appropriate, their families and caregivers, including specialist assessment and intervention, multidisciplinary formulation, treatment support and planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes according to relevant guidance and the evidence base. To be proactive in engaging individuals and their carers, who might express some ambivalence about engaging in psychological therapy. To support staff wellbeing and 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 in complex and severe mental health presentations, with particular expertise in trauma, behavioural and development conditions, and psychosis/bipolar. To work flexibly across settings. To undertake service evaluation, audit and research, as appropriate. To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, or equivalent 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.