Principal Practitioner Psychologist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £72,921 - £83,362 per annum inclusive of inner HCAs pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 02 April 2026 |
| Location: | Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7776406/334-CLI-7776406 |
Summary
The Community Autism Service (CAS) is a new team, developed with commissioners, staff and Experts by Experience, to meet a gap within service provision for autistic adults across Lambeth,Lewisham and Southwark. The CAS aims to support autistic individuals who cannot access other services such as mental health or learning disability services, but would benefitfrom specialist, autism focused, time-limited and targeted assessment and therapeutic input.
We are looking for an 8b Practitioner Psychologist to provide clinical leadership and specialist psychological input within CAS.
This post is an exciting opportunity to use your skills and expertiseas a neuro-affirmative professional, to help shape and deliver this new and innovative multi-disciplinary team.
The Practitioner Psychologist will provide highly specialist psychological input to autistic adults and their supporters, and will provide consultation to other team members.
The Practitioner Psychologist will work closely with the operational lead across all aspects of team development and functioning, including recruitment, supervision and appraisal of individual team members and implementing and chairing meetings as required.
The Practitioner Psychologist will also have a role inservice evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
Alongside the Practitioner Psychologist we are recruiting an Occupational Therapist team leader, Speech and Language Therapist and Peer Support Worker. The team will be supported by an administrator and Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
This exciting new team will sit within a large, friendly and supportive Autism and ADHD pathway and will have contact with other services including during the weekly Education and Research meeting. Informal support will also be available via our sister service in a neighbouring Trust.
Job Purpose:
• To develop, co-ordinate and work closely with the team leader to ensure the systematic provision of the Community Autism Service and personally provide highly specialist clinical input.
• To 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 lead specialist working with autistic adults.
• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychological practitioners within the Community Autism Service.
• To promote service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, 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.
• To support the coordination of staff support within their area, working closely with Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy to support colleagues and ensure all staff in SLaM have access to evidence based support. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Mar 2026