Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist
| Posting date: | 22 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £75,328.00 to £86,114.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £75328.00 - £86114.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2026 |
| Location: | London, SE1 3SS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9334-26-0358 |
Summary
To provide leadership for the stepped care model of care in Southwark. To develop in collaboration with the Trauma Lead a comprehensive Trauma-focused and Trauma-informed service to adults in Southwark and to 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 and trauma-informed environment. To provide managerial and clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as the trauma therapy lead and leading on the development and delivery of the stepped-care programme in the community teams. To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other trauma therapists within Southwark community teams. To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development. To work as an autonomous professional within relevant professional 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 leads and to decide how they are best achieved. Clinical and Client Care To lead on the development of stepped care in Southwark and to develop and deliver effective stepped care interventions for clients with emotion regulation difficulties. To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist trauma-informed psychological therapy service to clients with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, crisis and contingency plans, and interventions for clients in the community teams; providing adherent NET, CBT and EMDR, and developing and delivering shorter-term psychological interventions for clients in the CMHTs as part of a stepped-care approach. To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required with a particular emphasis on racialised trauma. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To act as a CPA co-ordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings. To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists. To ensure effective supervision of trainee applied psychologists, as appropriate. To contribute to the appraisal of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists, as appropriate. To contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychologists and psychotherapists, as appropriate. Responsibilities for team or service clinical functioning To lead on the development of a model of Stepped Care in Southwark including working with senior clinicians from other services/treatment modalities to develop and deliver an effective joined-up stepped care pathway. To co-ordinate (and chair) meetings regarding stepped care provision and meetings regarding pathways for these clients into accessing psychological support in secondary care. To take a lead in ensuring a psychologically informed framework for the stepped care model of treatment for clients in the secondary care CMHTs. To take a lead in developing the services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities. To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services. To advise other members of the service and other parts of the pathway on specialist (trauma- informed) psychological care of complex clients. To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members, including ensuring the delivery of NICE-concordant interventions Teaching and Training To contribute to occasional specialised training to other professions and services as appropriate. To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the psychological therapies by maintaining and sharing an active awareness of current developments in trauma therapy, and the emerging evidence-base for psychological treatments and by implementing knowledge gained in practice. To deliver training on trauma-informed principles to clinicians in CMHTs in Southwark. To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.