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Sector:
Psychology
Type: Permanent
Reference
no: mhj8917
Employer: NHS Foundation Trust
Location: London
Salary: £30,566 - £46,374 per year
Benefits: See Advert
Posted date:
13/07/2010
Closing date: 27/07/2010
Details: - A cross between a large local mental health trust and a
teaching hospital, linked to a major international
research institute
- Provider of the most extensive portfolio of mental
health services in the United Kingdom
- A world leader in research, working in partnership with
the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London
- The largest mental health training institution in the
country.
We are part of Kings Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between one of the worlds leading research-led universities and three of Londons most successful NHS Foundation Trusts.
Our AHSC is one of only five in the UK. It consists of Kings College London, and Guys and St Thomas, Kings College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.
Kings Health Partners includes seven hospitals and over 150 community based services, is responsible for seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000 employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. See www.kingshealthpartners.org
The Lambeth Primary Care Psychological Therapies Service runs the Lambeth Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) site. This is a successful established wave 2 IAPT site, fully operational since September 09. We are looking for people who want to develop this service and help us in the challenges ahead. The post holder will be based in GP surgeries, and also have time at one of the team bases. These are currently in the south of the borough at Palace Road, Streatham Hill, SW2 3DY, in 1a Dalbury House, Edmondsbury estate, Ferndale Road, Brixton SW9 8AP (our main base, 5 minutes from Brixton tube) and in the North at St Thomas Hospital, Waterloo, SE1 7EH. You will attend the two day a week postgraduate IAPT CBT programme at the Institute of Psychiatry from October 2010. It is a requirement to pass this course.
The aim would be to enable you to become a BABCP accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist in about a years time. Future CPD could include accessing South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SL&M) resources, such as developing expertise in project management, under an innovative active learning set CPD programme run by SL&M for Band 7 psychology staff.
The post is graded at either Band 6 or Band 7. For Band 7, we are looking for either Clinical / Counselling Psychologists / or CBT Therapists with highly developed clinical assessment and therapy skills relevant to working in primary care. You will also need to show experience of using formal psychological therapy with severe mental illness such as personality disorder, psychosis and bipolar affective disorder. This is because the Lambeth IAPT work also includes addressing anxiety and depression in these populations and this will be a feature of this post. For the Band 6 post, the work will be with depression and anxiety disorders. You will need to be able to work flexibly, with sessions in different locations as required. An evening session will also be required (working a shifted day, from 12-8pm once a week). This is a busy clinical post, offering brief therapy in line with NICE guidance, primarily CBT. Hence, a strong interest in CBT would be an advantage. Regular individual supervision from an experience clinical / counselling psychologist / High Intensity CBT therapist would be provided. The Band 7 post would suit a newly qualified Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist or someone with a core profession in mental health and substantial post qualification training in CBT. The post holders will be committed to working as part of a team and collaboratively with GPs, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and neighbourhood counselling teams. The post involves working to agreed targets for clinical activity. Local targets for the IAPT service include access and working with issues of work and unemployment, with people from black and ethnic minorities and with offenders and ex-offenders.
The Primary Care Psychological Therapies Service is commissioned by NHS Lambeth and provided by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SL&M). SL&M provides mental health and substance misuse services for people living in the London Boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. In addition the Trust provides specialist services to people from across the UK
Lambeth is a borough of high social and psychological needs with considerable cultural diversity.
The service has over 40 staff, with Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, High Intensity CBT Therapists, and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and is led by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Interviews will be on the 9th or 10th August 2010
Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
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