Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist, or Psychological Therapist

Join our expanding Psychology and Psychotherapy team and help shape the future of inpatient mental health care in Croydon. We are recruiting a Band 7 Psychological Practitioner to work across our inpatient services at the Royal Bethlem Hospital. This rewarding role offers a rare blend of direct therapeutic work, service innovation and workforce development. You will provide individual and group interventions, support psychologically informed ward environments, and contribute to staff wellbeing through reflective practice, formulation and training. Working within a diverse and supportive team, you will have opportunities to supervise trainees, lead service improvement initiatives and develop specialist skills in acute and crisis care. Applications are welcomed from newly qualified practitioners as well as those due to qualify this year

Please get in touch for further information. Will be be co-ordinating site visits, where possible, for any shortlisted candidates.

Main duties of the job

Evidence-based assessment, formulation and interventions for individuals and families who experience mental health difficulties

Offer the provision of staff support and case formulation, developing the therapeutic milieu across inpatient wards. Including working part of the MDT and provide indirect support and consultation for colleagues.

Provide supervision for psychological therapists, as needed and would be encouraged to support trainee clinical psychology placements.

Croydon is a diverse borough and the postholder will work to engage with the local community and take their needs into consideration to provide an accessible service.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.