Highly Specialist Psychologist / Psychological Therapist / Psychotherapist

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Southwark Acute and Crisis Psychology and Psychotherapy team. We are offering a permanent contract for a full-time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist Band 8a. The post holder will be based at the Maudsley Hospital which provides acute mental health care to people living in Southwark, South East London., This is a split post across two urgent care services - Our new Mental Health Urgent Care Centre and our Place of Safety unit. The post holder will provide psychological assessment and very short term therapy services to clients; offer advice and consultation to ward colleagues; and play an integral role in the promotion and evaluation of innovative, psychologically informed approaches to meeting clients' mental health needs. The post holder will be expected to train and develop non-psychology staff in psychologically minded care. Prior experience of working within acute and crisis services is desirable and the candidate is expected to have a sound knowledge of evidence based short-term interventions. Supervision and support to the post holders will be provided by senior Clinical Psychologists working in Southwark's acute and crisis services.

The post holder will have experience of consultancy to colleagues at all levels, teaching, supervision and group work.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits packageand understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.

Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes

Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars

Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites

NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.