Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist

The closing date is 16 December 2025

• To provide a highly specialist psychotherapy/psychological therapy assessment service to patients with PTSD, complex PTSD and dissociative disorders as well as associated psychological difficulties. This includes specialist assessment, second opinion assessments, outreach assessments, care planning, implementation and producing assessment reports.
• To co‑facilitate Sensorimotor Groups.
• To offer individual therapy (using a variety of therapeutic models as required by the service).
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within BACP/UKCP/BPC/APC/HCPC/BABCP guidelines and codes of conduct and be guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.

The staff are based at the Maudsley Hospital with some remote working. The staff team consists of a Consultant Psychiatrist, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Honorary Therapists, Business Manager and administrator.

• KR 1 Clinical and Client Care To provide highly specialist psychotherapy/psychological therapy assessments, second opinions, and group/individual therapy for clients in the PTSD/Trauma pathway nationally including NICE recommended therapies and other relevant interventions. This may include psychological stabilisation, EMDR, Tf‑CBT, Sensorimotor Therapy, experience of relational based therapies appropriate for complex PTSD, experience of individual and group work. To provide culturally appropriate psychological or psychotherapeutic interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
  
  To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families. To select and deliver evidence‑based specialist therapeutic interventions, drawing from a spectrum of ideas and models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group.
  
  To promote psychological support for carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients. To act as the keyworker taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviewing care plans as appropriate.
• KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychotherapeutically informed framework for the service. To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities. To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services. To advise other members of the service on specialist psychotherapeutic care of patients.
  
  To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans. To utilise theory, evidence‑based literature and research to support evidence based practice and/or currently understood best practice‑based evidence, in individual work and work with other team members. To liaise with the service/s MDT and other professionals.
• KR 3 Policy and service development To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes. To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects. To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
• KR 4 Care or…