Senior Clinical Practitioner | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of inner HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW9 9SP |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7590706/334-CLI-7590706 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to take on a senior Clinical Practitioner role within a pan-London Integrated Community Pathways Service (ICPS), as part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway. This specialist input will focus on supporting the effective management and engagement of people on probation who present with complex personality difficulties and a high risk of harm to others, with the joint aims of reducing offending and improving psychological wellbeing.
Please note, as well as DBS checks you will also be expected to undertake HMPPS security vetting.
Development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. Opportunities for ongoing in-house training and development are offered to all staff on the OPD Pathway, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience.
The postholder will work directly with complex, high-risk service users with personality difficulties in the community, providing practical and emotional stabilisation support to assist their effective desistance.
They will provide supervision to ICPS clinical practitioners, and appropriate psychologically informed psychosocial and risk management consultation and advice to involved staff across agencies. They will liaise with probation, third sector and other agencies to address the support and wellbeing needs of service users and workers, working within a framework informed by best practice and the literature on working with personality disorder in a forensic population and effective risk management, with an emphasis on desistance.
The postholder will contribute to the development and implementation of effective governance frameworks, and to the audit and evaluation of developing services. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines, policies and procedures of London Pathways Partnership (LPP)’s services, and overarching objectives of LPP and the OPD Pathway.
The London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering a pan-London ICPS for the OPD Pathway. The OPD Pathway provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to multi-agency professionals working with them.
The South West ICPS is a multidisciplinary team made up of psychologists, probation officers, clinical practitioners and specialists from other sectors (e.g. housing). We deliver consultation, training and joint casework to PSL, and stabilisation/therapeutic interventions to people on probation. We have active social inclusion and user involvement programmes developed in partnership with service users and the PSL in line with desistance principles. LPP’s social inclusion projects include the development of community ‘hubs’ in north and south London offering a range of socially inclusive activities and support to service users. We cover the following areas: Hounslow; Kingston & Richmond; Merton & Sutton; Wandsworth; Lambeth; and Croydon.
Blue Star House is based in south London, zone 2 and is close to a vibrant high street with lots of shops and restaurants. It is within walking distance of Brixton rail and tube station, Stockwell tube station and Clapham High Street rail station, offering easy transport links. Please note the postholder will be expected to regularly travel across London to other settings, such as approved premises and probation offices.
Clinical:
• To provide expert advice, consultation, formulation, assessment and treatment for individuals with personality difficulties and for staff working with these individuals.
• To provide specialist psychosocial interventions, risk management and advice for highly complex service users with significant psychological difficulties following their release from prison; integrating highly complex information from a variety of sources addressing both risk and personality difficulties, and requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
• To formulate and implement plans for service users’ effective support and management, based upon an appropriate theoretical and evidence-based framework of the person on probation’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence and practice and professional guidelines.
• To provide specialist advice and consultation on resettlement to probation and prison staff, mental health services, and other relevant criminal justice, health and third sector agencies.
• To plan, organise and implement a range of specialist psychosocial interventions and activities requiring formulation and adjustment in response to service users, and where appropriate carers and involved professionals; co-working with clinical and non-clinical colleagues as appropriate.
• To evaluate and make decisions about interventions and support, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To communicate highly sensitive information and decisions in situations where there may be barriers to acceptance and a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and interventions with people on probation whose problems are managed by psychosocially informed care/pathway plans within the OPD Pathway.
• To develop specialist desistance and stabilisation programmes for individual service users with highly complex presentations, and highly specialised advice for multi-agency professionals within the OPD Pathway.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for people on probation in community settings, and to provide advice to other professions on psychosocial aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To take responsibility for initiating planning and review of psychosocial interventions and care/pathway plans including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
• To provide specialist psychosocial advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to people on probation’s formulations and pathway plans.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychosocially-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, intervention and support plans of people on probation within the OPD Pathway and to monitor progress during the course of multi-agency pathway delivery.
Teaching, training and supervision:
• To receive regular supervision and line management from a psychologist.
• To continue to gain post-qualification experience in psychosocial interventions and management, within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.
• To develop skills in teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other multi-agency staff and relevant professional practice as appropriate.
• To provide supervision and line management to clinical practitioners within the team.
• To provide supervision to students on placement from the relevant professional practice area.
• To co-produce and co-deliver workforce development interventions with service users within and beyond the postholder’s principal service area.
• To contribute to external and internal training programmes.
Management, recruitment and service development:
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
• To contribute to the development of the service’s governance and strategy, and to implement and monitor policy and practice initiatives as required.
• To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychosocial and/or organisational matters need addressing.
• To implement policy and propose changes to practices and procedures within the service area and the OPD Pathway.
• To help manage the workloads of Band 6 and 5 clinical practitioners and support workers, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures.
• To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of multidisciplinary staff.
• To be involved in service development projects as agreed by the professional lead.
IT responsibilities:
• To be proficient in the use of IT for email, intranet and clinical record purposes. To be familiar with word processing and database packages; to use appropriate computer software to develop and create clinical or other service-related reports or documents.
Research and service evaluation:
• To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
• To initiate, implement and contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the service, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service, to help develop and improve services to all service users.
• To contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To contribute to the development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the Directorate’s and Trust’s operational policies and services.
General:
• To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s professional and service manager(s).
• To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice across the service, by continuing to develop relevant professional skills taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the relevant disciplines.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
This advert closes on Monday 8 Dec 2025