Specialist Psychodynamic Psychotherapist/ Psychologist in London inLondon PUBLISHED THU 17 APR 2025 Jump to job information section

Job Purpose

• To provide a specialist psychodynamic psychotherapy service to Southwark Primary Mental Health Care Team including specialist assessment and psychotherapy, 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 consultation as and if requested, to other professionals.
• To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within BPC/ UKCP/ BACP/ BPS/ HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
  
  

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

• To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in Southwark PCMHT including those with moderate to severe depression, anxiety, trauma and personality disorders. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned
• To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required
  
  

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

• To contribute to the effective working of Southwark PCMHT facilitating a psychologically informed framework within the service
  
  

KR 5 Record-keeping and Information Governance

• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping according to professional and Trust guidelines
  
  

KR 6 Research and development

• To undertake service evaluation, audits or research if required
  
  

KR 7 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist according to regulatory and Trust guidelines.
• To ensure own CPD in line with regulatory body guidlines and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements
• To adhere to the Professional Practice Guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
  
  

About South London And Maudsley

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
  
  

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claudia Kanow Job title: Highly Specialist Psychodynamic Psychotherapist Email address: