Highly Specialist Psychologist/Psychological Therapist/Psychotherapist London

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Southwark Acute and Crisis Psychology and Psychotherapy team. We are offering a permanent contract for a full-time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist Band 8a. The post holder will be based at the Maudsley Hospital which provides acute mental health care to people living in Southwark, South East London. and mandatory mandatory mandatory mandatory mandatory mandatory mandatory mandatory

Main duties of the job

This is a split post across two urgent care services – Our new Mental Health Urgent Care Centre and our Place of Safety unit. The post holder will provide psychological assessment and very short term therapy services to clients; offer advice and consultation to ward colleagues; and play an integral role in the promotion and evaluation of innovative, psychologically informed approaches to meeting clients' mental health needs. The post holder will be expected to train and develop non-psychology staff in psychologically minded care. Prior experience of working within acute and crisis services is desirable and the candidate is expected to have a sound knowledge of evidence based short-term interventions. Supervision and support to the post holders will be provided by senior Clinical Psychologists working in Southwark’s acute and crisis services.

Benefits

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.

Details

Date posted: 14 July 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum inclusive of HCAs

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 334-CLI-7996409-B

Job locations: The Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AZ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose: To provide a highly specialist psychological interventions to mental health acute crisis services 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 lead specialist.

To promote service evaluation, audit and research.

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 agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.

To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.

Our values and commitments

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