Consultant Clinical / Counselling Psychologist , Clinical Lead

We are looking for a clinical or counselling psychologist with significant experience of working with adults with complex emotional needs to provide clinical leadership to our Complex Needs Service in Sutton and Merton. As the Clinical Lead you will be responsible for ensuring provision of a high quality, safe specialist psychological therapies service to people accessing the Complex Needs Service. You should be trained in DBT to intensive level. You will be energetic and committed to supporting people with complex emotional needs to access safe and effective care without stigma.

Sutton and Merton Complex Needs Team is a warm and welcoming team devoted to providing excellent care for people in our service.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

We are committed to getting the very best out of our staff and support them in their career aspirations. This role offers an excellent opportunity for psychologists to gain the skills and experience that will help them move into a consultant psychologist role as their career progresses. We fully support staff to develop through training opportunities such as in DBT, SCM, MBT or EMDR as well as leadership development., The post holder will serve as the clinical lead for the service, overseeing and ensuring provision of high quality, safe and effective NICE evidenced based interventions for people with a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder under the care of the clinical team to which the the post holder is attached. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team, as well as ensuring clinical and professional supervision and support of all other psychological therapy staff within the team. The post holder will be responsible for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs across the staff group in the team and will propose and implement policy and service development changes within the area served by the team/service as needed.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

About our locations:

Your contractual base will be Springfield University Hospital, Tooting but you will be required to work at other Trust sites.

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities.

We are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 08:00 to 18:00 giving you the very best of good work life balance. There is the opportunity to work from home on some days.