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Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job LocationDenmark Hill
EducationNot Mentioned
Salary£50,575 - £56,490 per annum
IndustryNot Mentioned
Functional AreaNot Mentioned
Job TypeContract, full-time or part-time

Job Description

About the team:Psychology in Hostels Service is an innovative award-winning hostel-based specialist homeless psychology service for clients with complex mental health needs. This post is part of an exciting expansion of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) service commissioned by Westminster City Council, which for the past 8 years has been pioneering in the development of ‘Psychologically Informed Environments’ (PIE) delivering ‘Trauma Informed Approaches’ in select homeless hostels across Lambeth, Greenwich and Westminster. The Psychology in Hostels (PiH) service is provided by SLaM in close partnership with a selection of third sector charity hostel providers, the London Borough of Lambeth and Westminster City Council.The client group experience multiple disadvantage and have high levels of complex trauma and interpersonal difficulties coupled with substance misuse issues, anti-social behaviour, self-harm and often an offending history. A PIE takes into consideration how the psychological and emotional needs of the clients are affected by the environments they inhabit; the approach adopted by hostel and outreach staff, training and support offered; the psychology specific interventions delivered and the integration of psychological and trauma informed approaches to the design of services.The current PIE psychology model uses Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) as well as other evidence-based treatments for working with complex needs populations (Incl. DBT, CBT, Psychodynamic, Narrative & Systemic). Here we aim to facilitate recovery by improving mental health and wellbeing, working with anti-social and chaotic behaviours, increasing engagement, reducing repeated evictions and abandonments and other negative outcomes for the clients.About the role:This Westminster role will sit within a wider Psychology in Hostels team based across Westminster and Lambeth, which includes: several Trainee Clinical Psychologists, an Art Therapist, three Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologists, four Specialist Clinical Psychologists and a (Principal) Clinical Lead and Head of Service. The Service is also supported by SLaM operational and management structures.The postholders will:

  • Work closely with hostel, outreach staff, tenancy sustainment and supported living teams, other psychologists and the wider MDT project team to develop a psychological and trauma-informed approach to understanding and managing clients’ difficulties.
  • Supervise and line manage other qualified and unqualified junior psychologists
  • Support, train and consult to the third sector partners, project MDT including peer advocates and wider network of services.
  • Offer individual and group clinical work to clients,
  • Offer peripatetic and transition services determined by capacity and demand
  • Support the assessment and onwards referral of clients into mainstream services
  • Develop and promote new ways of working across pathways from the emerging evidence-base.
  • About the location:We are based in Westminster Homeless Rough Sleeper and Mental Health accommodation services run by our third sector partners and supervised by the Head of Service.This post will be based across third sector run accommodation sites (hostels and shared housing) within the borough of Westminster and has a team admin base at Lambeth Hospital, close to Clapham North underground station. Due to adaptations around Covid-19 there will also be elements of the role that may involve working from home.Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.Benefits:We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
  • Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
  • Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
  • Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
  • Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
  • Accommodation, our staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
  • NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
  • Other benefits include:
  • Counselling services
  • Wellbeing events
  • Long service awards
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Childcare vouchers
  • Staff restaurants
  • We look forward to receiving your application.For further details / informal visits contact:NameDr Emma WilliamsonJob titleClinical Lead &

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