Clinical Lead Psychologist Southwark Intensive Support Service (MHLD) inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 16 DEC 2023
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Key Responsibilities:
Clinical and Client Care
To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist MDT service.
To provide and lead a highly specialist psychological and behavioural support service to the Southwark Intensive Support Team in the Mental Health in Learning Disability Service.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for adults with learning disabilities at levels expected of a psychological practitioner who has achieved the equivalent of a PG Diploma-worth of post-qualification specialist development.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological or psychotherapeutic interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families.
To select and deliver evidence-based specialist therapeutic interventions, drawing from a spectrum of ideas and models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group.
To promote psychological support for carers, families and networks of referred clients.
To act as carer co-ordinator taking responsibility for overseeing multi agency care plans.
Responsibilities for team or service clinical functioning
To co-ordinate (and chair) meetings for Southwark IST to ensure effective functioning and review, when appropriate.
To take a lead in ensuring a psychologically and psychotherapeutically informed framework for the Southwark IST
To take a lead in developing the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To liaise with the service/s MDT and other professionals.
Policy and service development
To implement policies and procedures in own area of work.
To identify any aspects of Southwark IST which could be improved and propose changes to practices or procedures that affect Southwark IST and may also affect other services.
To initiate and implement service development projects, as agreed with clinical/professional lead
To participate in the ongoing implementation of new initiatives (e.g. national guidelines) across IST, MHLD and relevant services.
To lead the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
Care or management of resources
To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.
To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
To ensure the cleanliness and safe functioning and use of equipment that will be used by clients or other persons.
To monitor and advise clients on the safe use of materials and processes.
To ensure adequate confidential and safe storage for artefacts produced during the therapy process in line with professional guidelines.
To be responsible for obtaining, storing and maintaining all necessary materials and equipment for the provision of therapy in work setting within budgetary constraints.
To hold a delegated budget for / take responsibility for purchasing supplies or equipment (if required).
Management and supervision
To provide clinical leadership to more junior psychological practitioners and other professionals, as appropriate.
To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychological practitioners.
To supervise trainees within own area of specialism having completed the relevant training.
To contribute to the appraisal of more junior psychological therapists as appropriate.
To contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychological practitioners as appropriate.
To provide professional and clinical supervision to more junior psychological practitioners, trainees and honoraries for all aspects of their work.
To provide management supervision to less senior psychological practitioners.
To provide supervision for the psychological work of other multi-disciplinary staff as appropriate.
Teaching and Training
To undertake occasional teaching and training of pre and post-qualification psychological practitioners and specialised training to other professions as appropriate.
To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
Record-keeping and Information Governance
To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry, in those parts of the service for which the post-holder has leadership responsibility.
Research and development
To initiate, undertake, support and supervise regular complex service evaluation and audits
To initiate/carry out appropriate research.
To complete quarterly reviews of clinical data and outcomes for presentation to stakeholders.
To initiate and implement the development of outcome measurement and assessment and assist other staff in the implementation of same.
Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychological practitioners according to professional and Trust guidelines.
To maintain own Continuing Professional Development in line with registration body and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the professional Standards for Continuing Professional Development.
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.
To comply with registration body Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics/Standards of Proficiency.
General
To travel to home visits, other clinical sites and teams as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
To travel to out of borough placements when necessary.
To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.
To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations such as adults with learning disabilities who may display behaviour that challenges, and to support others involved in such situations.
To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics within the overall Job Plan.
To work closely with Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy to ensure consistent and timely delivery of staff support within their area across all disciplines. Contributing to the development of the staff support offer in line with relevant quality improvement projects.
We have an exciting fixed term opportunity to jointly lead our established Intensive Support Team (IST) for adults with Learning Disabilities in Southwark. The IST is a small MDT led by a full time 8b Lead Psychologist within the Mental Health Learning Disabilities (MHLD) Service in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The advertised post is 0.4wte to cover a 2-day secondment that is being taken up by the current post-holder in the ICB until 31/3/26. The post holder will remain in post for 0.6wte. It is a fantastic opportunity to be working alongside an experienced 8b IST Lead Psychologist, and to be part of both the IST provision, as well as the wider MHLD psychology and behaviour support provision in Southwark, led by the Borough Lead Consultant Psychologist
The multi-disciplinary IST team provides intensive support to adults with Learning Disabilities, whose behaviour places them at risk of hospital admission, or placement breakdown. The team sits within community Mental Health in Learning Disability (MHLD) department in South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and works closely with the community learning disabilities team and other agencies in the borough. The Lead IST role is full time and involves the coordination of clinical delivery of the IST MDT and will lead the provision of a psychological and behaviour support service.
Job Purpose:
To develop, co-ordinate and oversee the provision of a MDT service at the Southwark Intensive Support Team (IST) and provide highly specialist clinical input in terms of psychological and behavioural support.
To contribute to enabling 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 in working with adults with learning disabilities who require an intensive support provision.
To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychological practitioners within the IST.
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 the coordination of staff support within their area, working closely with Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy to support colleagues and ensure all staff in SLaM have access to evidence based support.
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical and Client Care
To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist MDT service.
To provide and lead a highly specialist psychological and behavioural support service to the Southwark Intensive Support Team in the Mental Health in Learning Disability Service.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for adults with learning disabilities at levels expected of a psychological practitioner who has achieved the equivalent of a PG Diploma-worth of post-qualification specialist development.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological or psychotherapeutic interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families.
To select and deliver evidence-based specialist therapeutic interventions, drawing from a spectrum of ideas and models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group.
To promote psychological support for carers, families and networks of referred clients.
To act as carer co-ordinator taking responsibility for overseeing multi agency care plans.
Responsibilities for team or service clinical functioning
To co-ordinate (and chair) meetings for Southwark IST to ensure effective functioning and review, when appropriate.
To take a lead in ensuring a psychologically and psychotherapeutically informed framework for the Southwark IST
To take a lead in developing the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To liaise with the service/s MDT and other professionals.
Policy and service development
To implement policies and procedures in own area of work.
To identify any aspects of Southwark IST which could be improved and propose changes to practices or procedures that affect Southwark IST and may also affect other services.
To initiate and implement service development projects, as agreed with clinical/professional lead
To participate in the ongoing implementation of new initiatives (e.g. national guidelines) across IST, MHLD and relevant services.
To lead the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
Care or management of resources
To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.
To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
To ensure the cleanliness and safe functioning and use of equipment that will be used by clients or other persons.
To monitor and advise clients on the safe use of materials and processes.
To ensure adequate confidential and safe storage for artefacts produced during the therapy process in line with professional guidelines.
To be responsible for obtaining, storing and maintaining all necessary materials and equipment for the provision of therapy in work setting within budgetary constraints.
To hold a delegated budget for / take responsibility for purchasing supplies or equipment (if required).
Management and supervision
To provide clinical leadership to more junior psychological practitioners and other professionals, as appropriate.
To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychological practitioners.
To supervise trainees within own area of specialism having completed the relevant training.
To contribute to the appraisal of more junior psychological therapists as appropriate.
To contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychological practitioners as appropriate.
To provide professional and clinical supervision to more junior psychological practitioners, trainees and honoraries for all aspects of their work.
To provide management supervision to less senior psychological practitioners.
To provide supervision for the psychological work of other multi-disciplinary staff as appropriate.
Teaching and Training
To undertake occasional teaching and training of pre and post-qualification psychological practitioners and specialised training to other professions as appropriate.
To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
Record-keeping and Information Governance
To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry, in those parts of the service for which the post-holder has leadership responsibility.
Research and development
To initiate, undertake, support and supervise regular complex service evaluation and audits
To initiate/carry out appropriate research.
To complete quarterly reviews of clinical data and outcomes for presentation to stakeholders.
To initiate and implement the development of outcome measurement and assessment and assist other staff in the implementation of same.
Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychological practitioners according to professional and Trust guidelines.
To maintain own Continuing Professional Development in line with registration body and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the professional Standards for Continuing Professional Development.
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.
To comply with registration body Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics/Standards of Proficiency.
General
To travel to home visits, other clinical sites and teams as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
To travel to out of borough placements when necessary.
To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.
To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations such as adults with learning disabilities who may display behaviour that challenges, and to support others involved in such situations.
To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics within the overall Job Plan.
To work closely with Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy to ensure consistent and timely delivery of staff support within their area across all disciplines. Contributing to the development of the staff support offer in line with relevant quality improvement projects.
We have an exciting fixed term opportunity to jointly lead our established Intensive Support Team (IST) for adults with Learning Disabilities in Southwark. The IST is a small MDT led by a full time 8b Lead Psychologist within the Mental Health Learning Disabilities (MHLD) Service in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The advertised post is 0.4wte to cover a 2-day secondment that is being taken up by the current post-holder in the ICB until 31/3/26. The post holder will remain in post for 0.6wte. It is a fantastic opportunity to be working alongside an experienced 8b IST Lead Psychologist, and to be part of both the IST provision, as well as the wider MHLD psychology and behaviour support provision in Southwark, led by the Borough Lead Consultant Psychologist
The multi-disciplinary IST team provides intensive support to adults with Learning Disabilities, whose behaviour places them at risk of hospital admission, or placement breakdown. The team sits within community Mental Health in Learning Disability (MHLD) department in South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and works closely with the community learning disabilities team and other agencies in the borough. The Lead IST role is full time and involves the coordination of clinical delivery of the IST MDT and will lead the provision of a psychological and behaviour support service.
Job Purpose:
To develop, co-ordinate and oversee the provision of a MDT service at the Southwark Intensive Support Team (IST) and provide highly specialist clinical input in terms of psychological and behavioural support.
To contribute to enabling 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 in working with adults with learning disabilities who require an intensive support provision.
To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychological practitioners within the IST.
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 the coordination of staff support within their area, working closely with Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy to support colleagues and ensure all staff in SLaM have access to evidence based support.
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