# Clinical Associate in Psychology/ Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner **Company**: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Camberwell, London **Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9334-26-1050?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ef0b5e3a-be1 ## Description We are seeking to employ and support a Band 6 Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP)/ Senior Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (SMHWP). The CAP/ SMHWP will be already trained in the delivery of low-medium intensity psychological formulation, assessment and treatment in Adult Secondary Care Health or Secondary Care Mental Health settings. The post holder will sit within the new innovative TUNE-UP MDT to support delivery of behavioural and psychological components of a 12-month group weight management intervention for people with severe mental illness (mainly schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar). This adapts an approach offered for the general population. As part of the 12-month programme, patients will receive a set number of dietetic, physiotherapy, and psychology sessions +/- endocrinology/psychiatry support as necessary (eg if a weight loss medication is indicated, or a change in psychiatric medication is indicated). The post holder will need an interest in physical health, and in working with people with SMI. The post holder will work a normal shift pattern of Monday- Friday 9:00-17:00. **Main duties of the job** They will deliver a high quality and structured psychological pyscho education and treatment approach. This will be primarily as part of a small group programme, but also involve some individual programmes around weight loss and management. The work undertaken will be supervised regularly by a Senior Specialist Psychologist who will provide governance for the clinical work carried out. The TUNE-UP (Treating Unmet NEeds in Psychiatry) clinic is a specialist Maudsley Hospital pilot service designed to provide gold-standard weight-loss interventions--including GLP-1 weight-loss injections--for patients with severe mental illnesses like psychosis and obesity. **Job responsibilities** Working with multi disciplinary colleagues as part of a team delivering the programme. This is not intended to be a traditional specialist psychotherapy post. Rather, the role is focused on supporting behaviour change, engagement, psychoeducation, and psychologically informed lifestyle interventions within a physical health service model, including support around emotional and behavioural relationships with food, motivation for change, and adjustment to lifestyle interventions. Some sessions will be delivered to small groups, and some will be online. The postholder would work within structured care pathways and under structured senior supervision. The characteristics of the core population receiving direct services are people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) who may have experienced adverse life events and socio-economic disadvantages. The TUNE UP service users will have their general mental health care provided separately, for example through a CMHT. there will be regular senior psychology supervision from the Guy's & St Thomas (GSTT) Tier 3 weight management service, including weekly Band 8 psychology input. **Person Specification** **Qualifications** - Completed BPS [British Psychological Society] accredited CAP or MHWP apprenticeship training programme including EPA to IFA standards. - Registered as a CAP or MHWP with either the BPS or BABCP. **Experience** - Experience of delivering group psychological work - Experience of delivering individual psychological treatment work - Ability to engage with a variety of services and community partners and stakeholders, and to expand existing networks, and to nurture and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders - Understand how to analyse and appraise key theoretical concepts of psychological models of treatment both at individual and group level recognised in evidence-based national guidelines - Communicate effectively, share information and check understanding using clear language and appropriate, written materials, making reasonable adjustments where appropriate in order to optimise people's understanding **Knowledge and Skills** - To be able to facilitate a group programme - To able to work therapeutically with people with SMI - To be able to assess and formulate someone's experiences drawing on a range of psychological models and theory - Awareness of diversity of cultural norms across the borough, and being able to respond to this appropriately - Understand the principles of clinical supervision using them to provide a safe and supportive environment to reflect, review and discuss personal and professional responses to work ## Skills ### Required - BPS accredited CAP or MHWP apprenticeship training programme - Registered as a CAP or MHWP with either the BPS or BABCP - Experience of delivering group psychological work - Experience of delivering individual psychological treatment work - Ability to engage with a variety of services and community partners and stakeholders ### Nice to have - Post registration qualification in specialty - Evidence of continuing professional development - Training in SCM or other evidence-based intervention for this client group - Post-registration qualification/ accreditation relevant to the post - At least one-year post-qualification experience - Lived experience of using services, and/or being a carer for someone - Experience of psychological work with people with SMI --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9334-26-1050?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)