Consultant Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist , Clinical Lead inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED FRI 18 OCT 2024

We are looking for a clinical or counselling psychologist with significant experience of working with adults with complex emotional needs to provide clinical leadership to our Complex Needs Service in Sutton and Merton. As the Clinical Lead you will be responsible for ensuring provision of a high quality, safe specialist psychological therapies service to people accessing the Complex Needs Service. You should be trained in DBT to intensive level. You will be energetic and committed to supporting people with complex emotional needs to access safe and effective care without stigma.

Sutton and Merton Complex Needs Team is a warm and welcoming team devoted to providing excellent care for people in our service.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

We are committed to getting the very best out of our staff and support them in their career aspirations. This role offers an excellent opportunity for psychologists to gain the skills and experience that will help them move into a consultant psychologist role as their career progresses. We fully support staff to develop through training opportunities such as in DBT, SCM, MBT or EMDR as well as leadership development.

The post holder will serve as the clinical lead for the service, overseeing and ensuring provision of high quality, safe and effective NICE evidenced based interventions for people with a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder under the care of the clinical team to which the the post holder is attached. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team, as well as ensuring clinical and professional supervision and support of all other psychological therapy staff within the team. The post holder will be responsible for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs across the staff group in the team and will propose and implement policy and service development changes within the area served by the team/service as needed.

Flexible working:

We are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 08:00 to 18:00 giving you the very best of good work life balance. There is the opportunity to work from home on some days.

About us

To be the clinical lead for the service, ensuring systems and processes are in place to provide high quality, safe and effective NICE evidenced based interventions.

To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist psychological therapies service to clients with a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder under the care of the clinical team to which the post holder is attached, across all sectors of care. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team and to ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all other psychological therapy staff within the team.

To include clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs across the staff group in the team.

To carry out audit, policy and service development and research activities and/or programmes.

To propose and implement policy and service development changes within the area served by the team/service.