Practitioner Psychologist / Psychological Therapist / Psychotherapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist to work with our STEP (Southwark Team for Early Psychosis). This is our Early Interventions for Psychosis (EIP) service, offering a psychological therapy service to patients and their networks. This is a fixed term temporary position for 12 months., The successful candidate will contribute to the work of the STEP team providing direct and indirect psychological therapeutic interventions for patients, groups and families.

Direct, evidence-based, interventions include CBT for psychosis, trauma-focussed CBT, EMDR, CBT-based family interventions, Open Dialogue, Systemic Family Therapy and Arts Therapies. Within Southwark we offer psychological therapies on a stepped-care basis, therefore group work, and supporting the delivery of low intensity interventions, are also part of the role., To provide a specialist psychological interventions for the STEP team including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.

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 specialist for the STEP team. 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 staff support initiatives within their area, working with senior colleagues and, Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy, where appropriate, to support colleagues and ensure staff in SLaM have access to evidence based support. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.

We are looking for a motivated clinician who is passionate about working in an early intervention service with people with a diagnosis of psychosis and with their families and networks. The successful applicant will have good engagement skills, think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of skills in working collaboratively alongside others. Southwark is a racially and ethnically diverse borough and we are looking for a clinician who can work with cultural humility and will actively support our anti-racism agenda., with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.

We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust., Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist (or with other professional body appropriate to discipline, e.g.

APC/BPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP), and evidence of required continuing professional development, Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature, including clients with psychosis and people who have experienced trauma Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities.

This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience Experience of developing and carrying out research, audit or service evaluation projects, Experience of working in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service, Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment of first e