Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist
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SOC 2224 (89% match) is an eligible occupation, and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2226 (Other psychologists). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
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What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2224 Psychotherapists and cognitive behaviour therapists Most likely code | £25,000 | £25,000 | £25,000 | £25,000 |
2226 Other psychologists Also possible | £25,000 | £25,000 | £25,000 | £25,000 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
- We are seeking a motivated and skilled Band 7 clinician to join the Parenting Well with Psychosis Project (PWP), a 3 year partnership funded by the Maudsley Charity as part of their Living Well with Psychosis Programme. This is a new exciting opportunity to make a difference and shape future service delivery
- The PWP project aims to bridge the gap between CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) and Adult Mental Health services by bringing together the Helping Families Team and SLAM’s Early Intervention Psychosis teams across Croydon, Lewisham, Lambeth, and Southwark, with the goal of providing integrated care and support for parents with first episode psychosis.
- Partnership working with Peer Supporters and lived experience networks in project development, delivery and evaluation
- Delivery of evidence-based parenting interventions for parents with mental illness.
- Delivery of co-delivered professional training in “Think Family” principles, focusing on the needs of children and young people impacted by parental mental illness
- Deliver specialist parenting group interventions
- You will be a compassionate and motivating team member with some supervisory responsibilities of junior colleagues
- You will enable staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to contributing to a psychologically safe environment.
- To provide a specialist psychological assessment and interventions for parents experiencing mental illness, including psychosis, within the HFT.
- Confident and skilled in engaging with parents who are experiencing significant mental health difficulties and are likely to have had significant input from a range of services over a long period of time.
- Contribute to creating culturally-sensitive frameworks to ensure Black and other communities are invited to contribute meaningfully to the project.
- Ability to create supportive, connected, facilitative, influential and purposeful partnerships with families, colleagues and multi-agencies.
- The Helping Families Team is a multi-disciplinary team within the Centre for Parent and Child Support and N&S CAMHS that provides specialist individual and group parenting interventions to parents who are experiencing mental health difficulties.
- Early Intervention Services: The boroughs each have a multi-disciplinary team setup under the guidelines from the National Service Framework for Mental Health. The teams work with adults aged 18-65 years who are experiencing their First Episode of Psychosis. The teams work assertively and intensively with service users and carers for up to 3 years in Croydon, Lewisham and Southwark and 2 years in Lambeth, to promote engagement with the team and treatment, and to facilitate social inclusion and recovery.
- The cross–directorate project team will work in partnership with families, communities, colleagues and other agencies.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
Psychotherapists and cognitive behaviour therapists (SOC 2224) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay- Median £48,204
ONS publishes no quartiles for this occupation, so the shaded band is a rough guide.
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