Specialist Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist
London, England, United Kingdom Part-time Posted 1 week ago
We are looking for a 0.6 WTE Specialist Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Psychological Therapist to join the Staff Support team at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, part-time, on a 24 month charity funded contract. This post involves supporting the continued development, implementation and evaluation of the Post Incident Pathway. The post holder will support the Post-Incident Pathway Lead with several elements of the Post-Incident workstream within Staff Support, including the expansion of the project to include the roll out of Trauma Informed Operational Debriefs (TIOD) and Group EMDR (GTEP) across the Trust. There will also be scope to have some input into our other Staff Support projects (including CISS, Schwartz Rounds, Reflect, Support and Resolve and Team Support Plans). We are seeking a candidate who can effectively engage stakeholders and take a leadership role in certain projects at an organisation-wide level.
The successful candidate must have exceptional organisational skills and demonstrable ability lead on projects, delivering both on target and on time. They must be skilled in delivering training, engaging stakeholders and they must be able to deliver both Trauma Focused CBT and EMDR on an individual assessment and treatment basis. The candidate must be hard working and able to take initiative whilst holding strong ‘team-player’ values. Experience working in staff support, awareness of the impact of trauma on healthcare staff, narrative or systemic therapy training and project management skills are highly desirable.
Please see job description for the particular requirements of this role.
Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy (Corp P&P) oversees the standards of psychology and psychotherapy in SLaM. It has strong links to other disciplines and services. The governance of the provision, assessment and delivery of psychological interventions within the trust for both patients and staff are held under Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy. As a department we are made up of skilled staff members from Psychology and Nursing backgrounds with lots of different expertise.
Within Corp P&P we have a programme of projects which are working to address both local and national priorities through workforce, quality improvement and service development projects. Using a project management approach the work loosely falls under three workstreams, Staff Support, Psychological Workforce and Enabling Service Improvement. Examples of recent projects include; developing psychologically based approaches in acute and crisis care, developing and implementing staff support initiatives, including the Trusts Critical Incident Staff Support (CISS) service, work in Global Mental Health and developing workforce initiatives for aspiring and qualified psychologists and psychotherapists (e.g training events; diversifying the workforce).
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hannah Strang Job title: Staff Support Lead/Principal CBT Therapist Email address: hannah.strang@slam.nhs.uk
The successful candidate must have exceptional organisational skills and demonstrable ability lead on projects, delivering both on target and on time. They must be skilled in delivering training, engaging stakeholders and they must be able to deliver both Trauma Focused CBT and EMDR on an individual assessment and treatment basis. The candidate must be hard working and able to take initiative whilst holding strong ‘team-player’ values. Experience working in staff support, awareness of the impact of trauma on healthcare staff, narrative or systemic therapy training and project management skills are highly desirable.
Please see job description for the particular requirements of this role.
Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy (Corp P&P) oversees the standards of psychology and psychotherapy in SLaM. It has strong links to other disciplines and services. The governance of the provision, assessment and delivery of psychological interventions within the trust for both patients and staff are held under Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy. As a department we are made up of skilled staff members from Psychology and Nursing backgrounds with lots of different expertise.
Within Corp P&P we have a programme of projects which are working to address both local and national priorities through workforce, quality improvement and service development projects. Using a project management approach the work loosely falls under three workstreams, Staff Support, Psychological Workforce and Enabling Service Improvement. Examples of recent projects include; developing psychologically based approaches in acute and crisis care, developing and implementing staff support initiatives, including the Trusts Critical Incident Staff Support (CISS) service, work in Global Mental Health and developing workforce initiatives for aspiring and qualified psychologists and psychotherapists (e.g training events; diversifying the workforce).
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hannah Strang Job title: Staff Support Lead/Principal CBT Therapist Email address: hannah.strang@slam.nhs.uk
