Clinical Lead Lewisham NHS Talking Therapies | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Lewisham NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) is a dynamic and innovative, primary care psychological therapies service; one of four Talking Therapies services delivered by South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust.

The service is looking to recruit an experienced psychological therapist to lead and operationally manage the Lewisham Talking therapies service.The successful candidate will have proven leadership abilities and understand the context of delivering on local and national targets whilst delivering responsive and individualised care to Lewisham residents. The role requires the vision to deliver excellent outcomes and to innovate and develop a responsive service that adapts to changing local and national agendas.

Lewisham Borough is an area of high social and psychological needs with considerable cultural diversity. The service provides psychological care to an ethnically diverse group of patients and the Trust is working to be an anti-racist organisation.

The service links with training courses at King's College/ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), University College London and The University of Exeter. We also work with the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT).

We are a diverse, friendly service that aims to listen to and value our staff and their wellbeing and aims to promote opportunities to progress people in terms of their continued professional development.

· To lead, manage and ensure the effective delivery of the NHS Talking Therapies service in Lewisham

· To be responsible to the Professional Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy for the monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of applied psychology and psychotherapy in the Lewisham NHS Talking Therapies service and for the effective provision of professional supervision.

· To support and develop a committed and resilient workforce with excellent competencies in NHS Talking Therapies.

· To Lead on and ensure the delivery of research/ service evaluation and audit relevant to the Talking therapies service and the Trust objectives.

· To actively engage in reviewing and developing services to deliver equitable outcomes for all Lewisham residents

· To be responsible for the overall good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of the team

· To hold responsibility for workforce planning, capacity planning and demand.

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.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

· To plan, develop and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychological therapies service in Lewisham Talking therapies including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes

· To select and deliver highly specialist evidence based psychological assessments and treatments from a range of IAPT models (CBT/EMDR/ CfD/IPT/DIT.)

· To provide culturally appropriate and informed interventions

· To provide clinical expertise to the Lewisham Talking therapies service and other relevant stakeholders and teams

· To assess and monitor risk and safeguarding issues and to draw up appropriate management plans

· To understand the culturally rich diversity of the Borough and ensure that service are responsive, appropriate and accessible

KR 2 Responsibilities for team or service clinical functioning

· To lead a performance driven team who can deliver good therapy outcomes for patients and deliver national KPIs; local Borough objectives and Trust strategic objectives.

· To provide responsive leadership to the Lewisham Talking therapies service senior managers and support to the teams at all levels.

· To provide line management for senior staff and to oversee their management of junior team members to ensure that overall performance in in line with expected service goals.

· To take a lead in ensuring the team or service's ability to deliver accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities. To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.

· To lead service meetings, and ensure good communication up and down through the service

· To lead and provide expert clinical input on service performance management and use of performance data and clinical quality assurance.

· To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

· To develop and oversee contracts with external providers assuring excellent clinical governance and value for money

· To hold in mind the overall objectives of the organisation and the service in all decision-making.

KR 3 Management, supervision, recruitment

· To report to senior P&P leadership and Borough leadership about the overall performance and functioning of the Lewisham NHS Talking therapies service

· To ensure the provision of professional and clinical supervision for all staff in all disciplines across the service.

· To ensure a system is in place for the professional management and appraisal of all team members/ staff groups within the service.

· To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior clinician according to HCPC and / or registered / accrediting body and Trust guidelines.

· To provide highly specialist clinical consultation and professional and clinical supervision to colleagues and others and to contribute to a psychologically / psychotherapeutically informed framework across the primary care services as appropriate.

· To oversee and contribute to recruitment and selection throughout the service as needed

KR4 policy and service development

· Respond to national best practice guidelines for IAPT services and/ or national guidance and implements in line with local service objectives.

· Through audit, service user feedback and community engagement address service delivery inequalities and support the development of a service that is accessible to all Lewisham residents and has good outcomes across all groups.

· To be responsible for applying clinical governance standards within the Lewisham Talking Therapies service and ensure that these are maintained and improved.

· To oversee and support the appraisal and development of the workforce and the promotion of staff wellbeing initiatives.

KR 5 Teaching and Training

· To deliver teaching and training in relation to service need and specialist skills and interest

· To ensure systems are in place for the significant training requirements for NHS Talking therapies workforce

KR 6 Record-keeping and Information Governance

· To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

· To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry, and oversee the governance of the whole team.

KR 7 Research and development

· To lead on the initiation, undertaking and supervision of complex service evaluation and audit.

· To initiate appropriate research and to ensure systems are in place for research advice and supervision to other staff undertaking research within the service.

· To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles and support staff with the same

KR 8 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

· To work as an autonomous professional within guidelines provided by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and / or registered / accredited body and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions.

· To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with HCPC and / or professional / accreditation requirements (BABCP/UKCP etc) and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements.

· Tomaintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.

· To contribute to the strategic development and implementation of new initiatives e.g. national guidelines including NICE.

· To ensure that all psychology and psychotherapy staff for whom the post-holder has leadership or management responsibility, maintain professional standards and continuing professional development.

KR 9 General

· To work from different sites as required and to travel to home visits, meetings, case co-ordination meetings as appropriate and across the Trust when required.

· To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.

· To be available for out of hours work/ events to support the service and Borough activities