Practitioner Psychologist / Psychological Therapist / Psychotherapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity for a Band 7 Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist to join the STEP (Southwark Team for Early Psychosis) service. The role involves providing direct and indirect psychological therapeutic interventions, including CBT for psychosis and trauma-focused CBT, to patients and their networks. The successful candidate will work with a diverse population, contribute to group work, and support low-intensity interventions within a stepped-care model. The service is committed to an anti-racism agenda and seeks a clinician with cultural humility.
Key responsibilities
- To provide specialist psychological interventions for the STEP team including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a specialist for the STEP team.
- To promote service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
- To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
- To support staff support initiatives within their area, working with senior colleagues and, Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy, where appropriate, to support colleagues and ensure staff in SLaM have access to evidence based support.
Essential criteria
- Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration
- Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist (or with other professional body appropriate to discipline, e.g. APC/BPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP), and evidence of required continuing professional development
- Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature, including clients with psychosis and people who have experienced trauma
- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience
- Experience of developing and carrying out research, audit or service evaluation projects
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment of first episode psychosis
- Knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics for psychosis
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care
- To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences
- To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information
- To be skilled in the administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials
- Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
- Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour
- Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self
Desirable criteria
- PG Dip or Cert in CBT for psychosis
- Experience of working in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service
- Knowledge of CBT for psychosis models through formal training
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Practitioner Psychologist / Psychological Therapist / Psychotherapist
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist to work with our STEP (Southwark Team for Early Psychosis). This is our Early Interventions for Psychosis (EIP) service, offering a psychological therapy service to patients and their networks. This is a fixed term temporary position for 12 months.
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. Southwark 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.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will contribute to the work of the STEP team providing direct and indirect psychological therapeutic interventions for patients, groups and families. Direct, evidence-based, interventions include CBT for psychosis, trauma-focussed CBT, EMDR, CBT-based family interventions, Open Dialogue, Systemic F
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