Staff Support Lead | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a 12 month maternity cover for the Staff Support Lead Role.

The role is ideal for someone committed to improving the wellbeing of the NHS workforce, with strong clinical expertise and a passion for trauma‑informed, compassionate staff support. We are recruiting an experienced and inspiring practitioner to lead our Trust‑wide Staff Support Service—an established and innovative programme supporting colleagues across all disciplines.

As Staff Support Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping a culture of psychological safety at SLaM. You will lead a dedicated team, deliver highly specialist interventions, drive new initiatives, and work closely with senior leaders to ensure staff have access to high‑quality, evidence‑based support.

About the Role

You will provide strategic and clinical leadership across a diverse portfolio of staff-support projects, including Schwartz Rounds, Critical Incident Staff Support Services, Reflective Practice, and emerging trauma-informed initiatives. Working within Corporate Psychology & Psychotherapy, you will help ensure that every member of staff can thrive at work and access timely, culturally responsive support.

You will also personally offer specialist clinical interventions (including Trauma-Focused CBT or EMDR), support service development and evaluation, supervise members of the Staff Support Community of Practice, and collaborate with academic partners to drive innovation.

Lead and deliver the Trust’s Staff Support Service—providing specialist trauma‑informed psychological support, supervising the team, coordinating key programmes (Schwartz Rounds, Critical Incident Support, Reflective Practice), and ensuring safe, accessible, culturally competent provision. Drive service development and innovation, oversee training and consultation for staff across the organisation, maintain high professional standards, and lead research, evaluation and outcome measurement to strengthen and grow the staff wellbeing offer.

Corporate Psychology & Psychotherapy (Corp P&P) sets and upholds the standards for psychology and psychotherapy across SLaM. We oversee the governance, quality, and delivery of psychological interventions for both staff and patients. Our team brings together experienced psychologists, psychotherapists and nurses with a diverse range of specialist skills.

We lead a programme of projects focused on workforce development, quality improvement and service innovation. Our work spans three core areas:Staff Support,Psychological Workforce, andEnabling Service Improvement. Recent work includes developing psychologically informed approaches in acute and crisis services, expanding Trust‑wide staff support initiatives (such as CISS and reflective practice), and creating development opportunities and training for aspiring and qualified psychologists and psychotherapists—supporting a more skilled, inclusive and sustainable workforce.

We also collaborate with partners across SLaM and the wider system to shape and strengthen psychological practice and workforce wellbeing at scale.

· Develop, coordinate and lead the Trust‑wide Staff Support Service, ensuring systematic, high‑quality provision for all staff.

· Provide highly specialist clinical input, includingTrauma‑Focused CBT and/or EMDRwithin the Staff Counselling & Wellbeing Service.

· Lead delivery of key Staff Support programmes (Schwartz Rounds, CISS, Reflective Practice) across all services and professions.

· Drive the ongoing development of the multidisciplinary Staff Support strategy and design new initiatives aligned with organisational needs.

· Produce reports for commissioners and contribute to securing and maintaining funding for staff‑support activities.

· Promote the Staff Support offer, increasing visibility and growing the Staff Support Community of Practice.

· Ensure equitable access to support, particularly for marginalised and at‑risk groups, and contribute to fostering psychologically safe, inclusive work environments.

· Provide and receive clinical supervision, consultation and training as the lead specialist; deliver and coordinate CPD, training and supervision events.

· Maintain a sustainable Staff Support workforce by ensuring sufficient numbers of trained facilitators across the Trust.

· Ensure effective systems for clinical and professional supervision and governance for multidisciplinary staff involved in Staff Support delivery.

· Agree outcomes with the clinical/professional lead and deliver them autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines.

· Lead service evaluation, audit, research and policy development to strengthen evidence‑based practice.

Work autonomously within BPS, HCPC, RMHN, BACP or UKCP professional

This advert closes on Wednesday 6 May 2026