Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead DBT

Overview

Maudsley Health is the brand name for the collaboration between South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and MACANI. It was formed in 2015 to support the development of high-quality mental health services within the Middle East. The service aims to deliver high quality mental health services, including advice, training and consultation across the range of mental health problems, working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary colleagues, families and patients, and providing a supportive environment using evidence-based approaches.

The post is created to support the development of services in the Middle East and includes leading a highly specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Team with expert clinical input, collaboration with the Consultant Psychiatrist, and contributions to a psychologically safe environment, research, service evaluation and governance within the team.

• To lead, manage and plan the delivery of a highly specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Team and personally provide expert clinical input.
• To work collaboratively with the Consultant Psychiatrist who will have a small number of sessions attached to the Team.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by creating a psychologically safe environment.
• To ensure the conduct of research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the DBT Service research agenda.
• To be responsible for the good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of staff within the DBT Team.
• To work as an autonomous professional within DOH, BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures, interpreting and implementing these within the service area of responsibility.
• To uphold and enhance the reputation of Maudsley Health, MACANI and SLaM.

• Policy and service development
• Care or management of resources
• Management and supervision
• Teaching and Training
• Information Governance
• Research
• Maintaining professional standards and CPD

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity, promoting equality and human rights.

We embed our commitment by tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment, promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in everyday practice, ensuring all services and staff understand and support this commitment. We expect applicants to reflect these requirements in their statements of support.

Other notes for applicants: online applications; read and understand the Job Description and Person Specification; closing date is a guide and may close earlier; submission may transfer to a 3rd party e-recruitment system; if you have not heard within three weeks of the closing date your application has not been successful; priority consideration may be given to at-risk NHS employees; if successful an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) may be needed;

we are a smoke-free Trust.

NHS AfC:
Band 8a. SLaM delivers specialist services across multiple London boroughs. The Trust supports a quality management approach with a culture of learning and development. The organisation welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental illness as an asset to the Trust and values flexible working.