Practitioner Psychologist / Psychotherapist

The SLAM Addictions Clinical Academic Group, and South London Partnership (SLP) are collaborating to support the needs of those with co-occurring mental health and substance use needs on the inpatient rehabilitation wards within the SLP footprint:Barefoot Lodge (Oxleas); Heather Close, Westways and Tony Hillis Unit (South London & Maudsley); and Burntwood Villas and Phoenix (Southwest London & St George's).

The Co-occurring Mental Health and Addictions Rehabilitation Team (COMHART) has been coproduced with the SLP and the wards to ensure integration into the units' model of care. COMHART and inpatient multidisciplinary teams are working together to create a trauma-informed, anti-racist team culture with consistent ways of working to optimise recovery outcomes of people with mental health and substance use needs. The post holder will work under the supervision of psychology and other clinical staff within the service and alongside established staff on the rehabilitation wards to ensure there is a full multi-disciplinary response., The post holder will provide a qualified specialist psychology/psychotherapy service to people admitted to the mental health inpatient rehabilitation units across the SLP footprint. They contribute towards supervising Assistant Psychologists. They will deputise for the Principal Clinical Psychologist to provide day to day support to other clinical staff funded within the service. This is to ensure that there is a full multi-disciplinary response and ensuring that good quality clinical and professional supervision is maintained. The post holder will support the senior leadership team to develop service evaluation processes, contribute to the collection of evaluation and outcome data, as well as ensuring that the service works alongside a newly commissioned peer support offer to each of the wards.

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.

This pilot project has been extended to June 2025 and can be arranged a secondment. The project and post may be extended beyond this date. The post holder will be expected to help plan and engage in the evaluation process. The service's usual working hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.