Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Psychological Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 8a Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist to work with COAST (Croydon Early Intervention Service). This is our Early Interventions for Psychosis (EIP) service, offering a psychological therapy service to service-users and their networks. This is a fixed term temporary position for 12 months. It could be a secondment arrangement.

This is a newly created position to help reduce waiting times and create a more responsive psychological therapy service.

We are looking for a motivated clinician who is passionate about working in an early intervention service with people with a diagnosis of psychosis and with their families and networks. The successful applicant will have good engagement skills, think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of skills in working collaboratively alongside others. Croydon is a racially and ethnically diverse borough and we are looking for a clinician who can work with cultural humility and will actively support our anti‑racism agenda.

The successful candidate will contribute to the work of the COAST team providing direct and indirect psychological therapeutic interventions for service-users, groups and families. Direct, evidence‑based, interventions include CBT for psychosis, trauma‑focussed CBT, EMDR, and family interventions. Our longest waiting times are for CBT and trauma‑focussed interventions - tf-CBT and EMDR, and we welcome applicants who are skilled in these approaches.

The post would ideally work Thursday and either Monday or Friday and the other half day remotely.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Elly Tomlinson Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:

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