Practitioner Psychologist/ Psychotherapist & Psychological TherapistinLondoninLondonPUBLISHED MON 7 APR 2025

This is an opportunity to work in a community rehabilitation service provided jointly with Penrose (3rd sector supported housing provider) with clinical input from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in the borough of Lewisham

The Integrated Community Rehabilitation Service opened in May 2024 and provides specialist enhanced rehabilitation support to adults typically aged 18-65 diagnosed with severe and enduring mental health needs who would benefit from an intensive period of rehabilitation and recovery for a period of 9 months.

The accommodation and support staff are provided by Penrose in two properties located in Lewisham (Catford) which provides a total of 14 beds. SLaM will be providing dedicated medical, occupational therapy, psychology input and the posts will sit within the Lewisham Directorate in SLAM. Although based in the borough of Lewisham, the service will be open to service users from 3 out of 4 boroughs served by SLAM, including Southwark and Croydon.

The service will be used as an alternative to inpatient rehabilitation where possible.

The successful candidate will therefore have a keen understanding of how to work in a rehabilitation setting, have a strong commitment to improving the recovery outcomes of individuals, and enjoy working with stakeholders to support service transformation and innovation.

• To provide a highly specialist psychological interventions according to discipline 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 lead specialist
• To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
• 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 be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
  
  

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Bronwyn Dewing Job title: Programme Manager Email address: Telephone number: