Clinical or Educational Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical or Educational Psychologist, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Arts, Occupational or Systemic Therapist with a background of working with education settings and/or experience in child and adolescent mental health. We are looking for a clinician with a Post-graduate qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) , who is able to offer appropriate supervision and consultation within a growing multi-disciplinary Mental Health Support in Schools Team (MHST).
You will also work closely with families, as well as colleagues in CAMHS, the Local Authority, education settings and other local services.
Lead one of four established Mental Health Support Teams in the London Borough of Lewisham.
To supervise trainee and qualified EMHP's and band 6 practitioners To contribute in multi-disciplinary team discussions and service develop, + Lead one of four established Mental Health Support Teams in the London Borough of Lewisham.
+ To supervise trainee and qualified EMHP's and band 6 practitioners
+ To contribute in multi-disciplinary team discussions and service development
+ To be a link worker for MHST schools
+ To contribute and facilitate whole school approach workshops, We are an early intervention service supporting mild to moderate mental health needs in 60 primary and secondary schools across Lewisham. Our service will be expanding to more schools from 2026. The team currently consists of a 2 x Clinical Service Leads, 4 x Team Leads . As a Team Lead you would oversee the work of two to three senior wellbeing and link practitioners, and 4 Education Mental Health Practitioners.
About our locations:
Our main office is at Kaleidoscope, and we present and in-person across MHST schools in Lewisham. We offer some flexibility and home working, + To enhance accessibility to mental health services for children and young people in schools.
+ To collaborate with the newly appointed Schools Mental Health Leads to support early identification of developmental, emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people living or being educated in Lewisham.
+ To work jointly with providers to increase their capacity to intervene following early identification through the delivery of brief evidence based interventions and through liaison, consultation, training and joint working across services.
+ To provide clinical supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs)) and/or Band 6 CAMHS practitioners working within school settings
+ To be part of a multi-agency training team for schools.
+ To function as a specialist in CYP-IAPT principles and practice for the EMHP's.
+ To review applications to the MHST team and where required to facilitate appropriate step- up referrals to specialist CAMHS and/or access to other relevant agencies according to the level of need.
+ To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of work undertaken, and demonstrate professional accountability at all times.
+ To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best used.
+ To collaboratively develop and embed the MHST programme in schools.
+ To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
+ To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters
We are unable to consider applications from candidates who have applied for this position in within the last six months
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
+ Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
+ Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
+ We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
+ That all applications for this post will need to be made online
+ That you read and understand the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
+ That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
+ That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
+ That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful
+ That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
+ That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
+ That we are a smoke-free Trust
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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
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