# Senior Psychologist / Psychotherapist

**Company**: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £66274.00 to £73496.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, we believe in providing excellent care which is delivered with pride and compassion. Everything we do is to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all.

The Senior Psychologist / Psychotherapist role involves providing a highly specialist psychology service to the Lewisham Early Intervention Service, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation, and monitoring of outcomes. You will contribute to enabling other staff, service users, and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment. Additionally, you will provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in Early Intervention in Psychosis.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, and interventions for clients in the Lewisham Early Intervention Service

- Assessing and monitoring risk and drawing up appropriate risk management plans

- Ensuring that the views of service users and carers are sought and incorporated into all care delivered

- Providing clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychological therapists, family intervention therapists, trainee psychological therapists, and other multi-disciplinary staff as appropriate

- Contributing to the appraisal of more junior psychological therapists and family intervention therapists, as appropriate

- Undertaking occasional teaching and training of pre and post-qualification psychological therapists and specialised training to other professions as appropriate

The successful candidate will have a postgraduate qualification in a relevant field, be registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist, and have completed a training course in clinical supervision. Desirable qualifications include additional training in specialised psychological assessment and interventions for psychosis.

The salary for this position ranges from £66,274 to £73,496 per annum.

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## Skills

### Required
- psychological assessment
- clinical supervision
- Early Intervention in Psychosis
- risk management
- research methodology
- statistical analysis

### Nice to have
- specialised psychological assessment and interventions for psychosis
- CBTp
- FIp

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