Total 6 job vacancies by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our team as Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners. Three posts are available, across our Secondary Care Psychological Therapies Service and our Lambeth Living Well Centres. This is an exciting brand-new role created by NHS England and Improvement to support the transformation of adult community mental health services. Your training will be fully funded by the NHS. In return, we ask that you commit to staying with us for at least two years after you qualify if you apply to continue to work with us as a qualified clinician.

This role will contribute to ensuring adults with severe mental health problems have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.

Please note: The trainee mental health wellbeing practitioner posts are training positions. Successful candidates will be expected to study at university (we expect University College London) and may need to travel to campus, and will need to travel between Southwark station area, Brixton and Streatham and the team catchment areas across the borough of Lambeth for their clinical work.

We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve.

As a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems.

During the one-year postgraduate certificate training, you will, under supervision, develop knowledge and practice skills to employ wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions for serious mental health problems for adults individually and in groups, as well as support their families and carers, in line with the education providers expectations.

The second largest inner London Borough with an official population of around 350,000. The local population has needs related to a high level of social deprivation such as unemployment, poor social housing and child poverty. There are also pockets of greater affluence. There are high levels of morbidity, and levels and complexity of mental health problems are above the national average

Lambeth CCG and Lambeth Council want people of Lambeth to have a fully integrated and coordinated mental health system which focuses on people’s strengths and supports their whole health and wellbeing. They have commissioned SLAM NHS as part of the Lambeth Living Well Network (LWN) Alliance to lead, co-ordinate and, in large part, deliver support and services for those experiencing mental health issues in Lambeth.

The Trust: The South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) and committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, and some more specialist services to people from across the UK.
• The Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner will:
• attend all elements of the training programme of study and progress successfully through assessments of competence and attainment
• work in an adult community mental health service when not completing the programme of study
• develop and practice psychologically-informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community
• support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team
• work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions - not therapy - for example:
• Behavioural Activation and Graded Exposure using the “GOALS” programme
• Problem-solving
• Improving sleep
• Recognising and managing emotions
• Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
• Confidence building
• Support with medicines management



The Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner will be required to:
• Demonstrate the ability to work at degree level
• Have experience of work interacting with the public, working as part of a team, analysing complex information and communicating effectively
• Demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress, their families and carers

This is a training role within adult community mental health services. The post-holder will be enrolled in a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners. Once successfully enrolled, the post-holder will attend all elements of the programme of study and progress successfully through assessments of competence and attainment. Until enrolment, and in the remaining part of the week during training, they will work as a trainee in the service, under close supervision and regular course assessment of practice competence. They will work within the limits of their experience and assessed competence for their stage of training:


• To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.
• To deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.



To work within the limits of level of training and experience as a developing practitioner, taking on clinical practice appropriate to assessed levels of competence and stage of training. The post-holder will work as a trainee under close case management supervision from a suitably qualified professional to provide high quality collaborative care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, with a level of autonomy matched to level of demonstrated competence and stage of training. The post-holder will work under close clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered clinical / counselling psychologist, BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist or Senior MHWP to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions, with a level of autonomy matched to level of demonstrated competence and stage of training.




This advert closes on Sunday 8 Dec 2024

This full-time training will begin in January 2025 with around 2.5 days a week for academic work (teaching and personal study), and 2.5 days based at the service seeing clients related to training assignments. The Trainee will be both an employee of the service and an enrolled student with King’s College London. Upon completion, qualified trainees will receive a KCL Postgraduate Diploma.

Our service has an exciting opportunity for a Recruit to Train Trainee (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy- CBT) to join our team as part of the NHS England (NHSE) funded Children and Young People (CYP) Psychological Training Programmes (formerly CYP-IAPT).

Recruit to Train is a government-funded initiative aiming to grow the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand. To help reach this goal, NHSE covers salary and training costs for a 1-year post, allowing services to employ trainees to aid in implementing new or expanding existing specialist pathways to bridge the gaps in CYP mental health support.

This is a unique opportunity to apply your learning from weekly teaching into practical clinical interventions working with clients in the service making a direct impact in the lives of children, young people and their families.

We are looking for a committed and enthusiastic EMHP/CWP/CAMHS Practitioner who would like to undertake training in CBT. You may be a nurse, social worker or occupational therapist or other professional with experience of working in CAMHS or transferrable skills. The successful post-holder will complete a post-graduate diploma through Kings College London, whilst working in the Lambeth MHST. You will be expected to carry a clinical caseload, including delivering therapy according to your training modality.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field.

This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide interventions for children, young people or families using the core principles of the CYP Psychological Training Programme and consistent with the evidence base in the area of CBT. The post-holder will work in the service, for at least 2.5 days of the week using the newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme or undertaking self-study days for the remaining days, as required by the education provider.

The post holder will hold an appropriate training case load and complete the necessary assignments to meet the course requirements.

With the assistance of their clinical supervisor accept appropriate referrals; · Assess clients for suitability for the treatment for which modality specific training is provided;

· Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary;

· Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience;

· Involve the system around the child in treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language;

· Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate;

· Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service;

· Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols;

· Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.


This advert closes on Monday 4 Nov 2024

A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.


Our service has an exciting opportunity for a Recruit to Train Trainee (SFP CDD) to join our team as part of the NHS England (NHSE) funded Children and Young People (CYP) Psychological Training Programmes (formerly CYP-IAPT).

Recruit to Train is a government-funded initiative aiming to grow the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand. To help reach this goal, NHSE covers salary and training costs for a 1-year post, allowing services to employ trainees to aid in implementing new or expanding existing specialist pathways to bridge the gaps in CYP mental health support.

This is a unique opportunity to apply your learning from weekly teaching into practical clinical interventions working with clients in the service making a direct impact in the lives of children, young people and their families.

Please note: The position will be based in schools but the successful candidate will be expected to travel to Denmark Hill Campus of King’s College London for teaching during the training year.

More information about the course content and the different modalities can be found on the King’s CYP webpage: https://www.kings-cyp.com/page/recruit-to-train.



We are seeking highly motivated candidates who are enthusiastic about making a difference to children’s mental health through evidence-based interventions based on NICE Guideline recommended treatment.

You will be committed to the CYP Psychological Training Programme core principles: Accessibility, accountability, participation, awareness and evidence-based practice and in providing an inclusive and effective service for children and young people, along with a dedication to equity, diversity and inclusion.

Please review the additional documents for more information on the role, person specification other employment documents.

The closing date for applications is: 25/11/2024

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.

With the assistance of your clinical supervisor accept appropriate referrals; · Assess clients for suitability for the treatment for which modality specific training is provided;

· Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary;

· Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience;

· Involve the system around the child in treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language;

· Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate;

· Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service;

· Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols; · Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.


This advert closes on Monday 4 Nov 2024

In line with the governments priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the new Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England.

This is an exciting opportunity for 4 Trainees to join the MHST.

Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early January 2025 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.

Shortlisted candidates will also need to submit an application form to KCL for a place on the Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice. The application form will need to be completed at the same time as your application for a post. Offer of an interview will be subject to application completed and submitted to KCL.

We are seeking to recruit four graduate level practitioners to provide guided self-help therapy and parenting interventions. Further intensive supervision and on the job training will be provided by an experienced supervisor within each team. There will be a strong expectation for trainees to continue in post on successful completion of the one year training, with a salary increase to NHS Band 5 scale for the second year onwards.

Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis within a Mental Health Support Team delivering individual, group and workshop-based mental health interventions within a borough-based cluster of schools.

During training, the post-holders will work under close supervision to gain experience across healthcare and educational settings to enable them to gain the level of competence required to deliver high-quality, evidence-based early interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.

Lambeth MHST mission statement:

Through early support and working with children, young people, families and staff, we help to enable healthy minds and thriving school communities. We offer a safe space to work with you collaboratively and with transparency. We value who you are and where you are.

We are an early intervention service supporting mild to moderate mental health needs in 28 primary and secondary schools in Lambeth. Our service will be expanding to more schools in Lambeth in January 2025. The team currently consists of a Clinical Lead, 3 Supervisors, 4 Supervising Practitioners, 12 Education Mental Health Practitioners, 1 Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, 1 art Therapist, 1 Quality Assurance and Communications Lead, and a Senior Administrator.

About our locations:

Our main office is at St John Angell Town Primary School but we also work across several MHST schools in Lambeth. We offer flexibility and home working.

Essential
• Qualification:• Undergraduate degree, upper second class or above, in Psychology OR related subject (e.g., Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc), OR any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g., Teaching/TA; Learning Support; HCA; Youth Work; Counselling etc)

OR
• Relevant professional experience in CYP Mental Health/Education/Mentorship (to be considered on a case-by-case basis)
• Strong communication skills
• The ability to work cohesively within small teams
• Motivation to learn and to be challenged
• The ability to use feedback and adapt accordingly
• Good organisational skills
• Experience of working within a mental health setting and / or school pastoral care
• Experience of working with children and an understanding of how to talk with them
• Commitment to using data and relevant measures to assess clinical outcomes


This advert closes on Monday 28 Oct 2024

• To undertake the doctoral child psychotherapy training IPCAPA at the British Psychotherapy Foundation (bpf)/Anna Freud Centre/UCL.
• To undertake clinical work in line with the training requirements of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP).
• To complete the training requirements of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
• Should the postholder cease to be an approved trainee of IPCAPA s/he will no longer be eligible to hold the post.
• To provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy under supervision as required within the Child Psychotherapy team.
• To undertake assessment of children, adolescents and their parents for psychotherapy
• To contribute to the multidisciplinary assessment of a broad range of cases based upon psychoanalytic principles and techniques within the generic team
• As a member of the multidisciplinary service of child psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, family therapists, social workers, nurse specialists, administrative and other staff to attend its meetings and maintain contact with co-workers.
• To participate in the regular review and ongoing discussion of cases in therapy with other members of the multidisciplinary team
• To undertake necessary recording, outcome measures, and other data gathering as required
• At an appropriate stage in the training, to participate in the ongoing consultative and liaison work undertaken by the service.
• To provide supervision for trainees within other disciplines as agreed.
• To contribute to any other aspect of the service with agreement from training school, service supervisor, and line manager.
• To attend supervision regularly with the designated service supervisor.

The Team

Lambeth CAMHS - River Team - is a tier 3 CAMHS team comprising of a range of skilled practitioners who assess and treat a wide variety of mental health disorders being acute, complex, chronic and/or enduring. These include schizophrenia, depression, eating disorders, deliberate self-harm, psychosis, ADHD, OCD, anxiety, gender disorders, conduct disorders, PTSD and substance misuse.

The team is a multidisciplinary team including psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychology, nursing, occupational therapists, art psychotherapists, CBT therapists, social workers and family therapists supported by a business manager and a number of administrators based on site.

We see the majority of the children and young people at our main team base, however, we do have facilities to see people in a local GP surgery and within schools and other statutory services as well as in their homes.

Other teams in the Borough CAMHS work out of a separate building in Brixton, allowing for the base at Black Prince Road to focus on the families presenting to a Tier 3 CAMHS.

clinical
• To provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy under supervision as required within the Child Psychotherapy team.
• To undertake assessment of children, adolescents and their parents for psychotherapy
• To contribute to the multidisciplinary assessment of a broad range of cases based upon psychoanalytic principles and techniques within the generic team
• As a member of the multidisciplinary service of child psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, family therapists, social workers, nurse specialists, administrative and other staff to attend its meetings and maintain contact with co-workers.
• To participate in the regular review and ongoing discussion of cases in therapy with other members of the multidisciplinary team
• To undertake necessary recording, outcome measures, and other data gathering as required
• At an appropriate stage in the training, to participate in the ongoing consultative and liaison work undertaken by the service.
• To provide supervision for trainees within other disciplines as agreed.
• To contribute to any other aspect of the service with agreement from training school, service supervisor, and line manager.
• To attend supervision regularly with the designated service supervisor.



skills and knowledge
• To maintain high 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 of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and Trust policies and procedures.
• To attend team meetings as appropriate, case conferences and professional network meetings and to contribute as part of the child psychotherapy team, a psychodynamic understanding that is articulated and acted on as appropriate.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local NHS, Social Care and Education policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group particularly child protection procedures and practices and National Service Frameworks and NICE guidelines.



monitoring and evaluation of risk

In consultation with the service supervisor to be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from children and young people in the trainees own caseload. This may be due to Child Protection concerns, deliberate self harm or other risky behaviour (e.g. running away, substance misuse, causing harm to others).



research and service evaluation

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and with other team members.


This advert closes on Sunday 30 Jun 2024

Job Purpose

An exciting opportunity has arisen to train as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner within either Lambeth or Croydon Talking Therapies.

Training to become a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner is a great opportunity for people looking to pursue a career in Psychology.

As a Trainee PWP you will have a mix of service and university days. You will be employed through South London & Maudsley NHS Trust and will be enrolled with our partner, University College London (UCL) where you will undertake a Post Graduate Certificate in Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions.

We are looking to train up to 20 Trainee PWP’s across Lambeth and Croydon services, with the posts starting at the beginning of October 2024.



Applications

To apply you must complete anonline application form through UCLand not through NHS Jobs. Any applications submitted through NHS jobs or TRAC willNOTbe reviewed.

The application portal will be open via the below link fromThursday 25th April to Monday 13th May 2024 (applications open and close at 10am)

Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions for Common Mental Health Problems PG Cert | Prospective Students Graduate - UCL – University College London

We recommend you read through the UCL Trainee PWP application pack hereapplication_pack_master_autumn_18_v1.4.pdf (ucl.ac.uk)

You can select your preference to work for Lambeth or Croydon Talking Therapies by listing us as your first choice in your personal statement (see application guide above)

Lambeth Talking Therapies

We are a well-established, successful, friendly service with over 120 members of staff. Our team is made up Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, High Intensity therapists, Clinical Support Workers, and Administrators.

We are committed to helping to develop the people that come to work with us. We know our service can only be as good as the people who work here, and we will invest in you to maximise that potential. We really welcome new members of the team and value our staff highly. We think staff wellbeing is essential, and have a range of initiatives to support our staff.

Croydon Talking Therapies

We are one of four IAPT services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).

We are a warm and welcoming team, enthusiastic, innovative, creative and flexible. We strive for excellence in treatment, supported by frequent and high-quality supervision. We appreciate the importance of investing in our team and there are regular opportunities for personal development and on-going clinical training, both within the team, and across the four SLaM IAPT services.

Lambeth and Croydon are both boroughs of high social and psychological needs with considerable cultural diversity. We value this and want to reach these needs. We would like our team to reflect the diversity of our community and therefore welcome applications which represent these communities. We also welcome applicants who live within the respective boroughs.

PWP training is provided by University College London (UCL) and is full time. Trainees attend university one day a week and work in service the remaining 4 days a week. Trainees will be employed in an IAPT psychological treatment service. Training course fees on this programme
are fully funded by the NHS. In addition, trainees will receive a salary from the London IAPT service where they undertake their 4-day a week placement over the year of the programme.

PWPs work with people across the adult age range.

Applicants should have experience of working with people with psychological, interpersonal or social problems; either through employed positions or formal volunteer roles.


The course is a postgraduate certificate and applicants are required to demonstrate aptitude to study at postgraduate level, either through degree level education or demonstration of academic equivalence.

You will need to have some experience, in a paid or voluntary capacity with people struggling with their mental health.

You will work with people on the telephone, on digital platforms and face to face. Please note, these are not fully home-based/remote posts, although there will be some remote working including the academic elements of the post.

Interviews will take place in July 2024.

PLEASE ONLY APPLY THROUGH UCL

Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions for Common Mental Health Problems PG Cert | Prospective Students Graduate - UCL – University College London




This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024