Job summary
We are seeking enthusiastic and dynamic candidates for an exciting vacancy within Greenwich Community Learning Disability Team. This post is suitable for a newly qualified psychologist or existing Band 7 candidates interested in working in a creative and innovative team.
You will work closely with experienced psychological therapists where there is ample opportunity for continued professional development and specialist training courses. We are an integrated health and social care team who support adults with learning disabilities and welcome applicants who enjoy working closely alongside other disciplines and within a context where multiple psychological approaches are valued.
Main duties of the job
Our service offers particular opportunities in relation to systemic ways of working and over the past year we have developed a "Systemic Forum" to support specialist work in this area.
Your work will involve offering a range of therapeutic and specialist assessments and require you to work both with individuals with learning disabilities and also their wider support systems. Our service also offers a wide range of group interventions.
Our service is also committed to approaches that address inequalities and discrimination. Over the past 2-3 years we have developed a thriving antidiscrimination forum and more recently have created a LGBTQ+ group for service users and interested staff that has hosted two major events.
The successful applicant will receive regular specialist supervision, as well as additional systemic supervision provided by Dr Sandra Baum and Neuropsychology seminars and supervision and access to networks to support their professional development.
Based in Woolwich and working across the Royal Borough of Greenwich, the post will offer the opportunity to work with service users, colleagues and carers from highly diverse backgrounds.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to the Greenwich Community Learning Disability team. This includes: providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy with individuals families and groups, consulting with families, team colleagues and non professional carers about psychological models and ideas, and working within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. There is also the opportunity for the post holder to develop group and /or systemic/family and community project work in these contexts.
In relation to this our service has developed a large number of projects working alongside service users and carers at each stage of their design and development, including ResearchNet a co-production group that has been running for 10 years and a programme called Fun and Fitness that has recently been shortlisted for HSJ Learning Disability Development of the year award and has enabled around 140 people to access exercise groups in local gyms.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to the Greenwich Community Learning Disability team. This includes: providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy with individuals families and groups, consulting with families, team colleagues and non professional carers about psychological models and ideas, and working within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. There is also the opportunity for the post holder to develop group and /or systemic/family and community project work in these contexts.
In relation to this our service has developed a large number of projects working alongside service users and carers at each stage of their design and development, including ResearchNet a co-production group that has been running for 10 years and a programme called Fun and Fitness that has recently been shortlisted for HSJ Learning Disability Development of the year award and has enabled around 140 people to access exercise groups in local gyms.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Achieved/ working towards qualification in clinical psychology
Desirable
- Additional training relevant to post
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with Adults with Learning Disabilities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Achieved/ working towards qualification in clinical psychology
Desirable
- Additional training relevant to post
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with Adults with Learning Disabilities
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
