Job summary
We have 2 positions available, based in Inpatient Forensic Psychology across the Bracton Centre and Memorial Hospital, recently rated CQC Outstanding. You will work with a team of psychological therapists and multi-professional colleagues to embed psychologically informed care in the service. You will be based on a ward, but have input into cross-service psychological activities including groups. You will promote an environment in which therapeutic relationships facilitate safety and change, by offering psychological perspectives, emotional support and promoting psychological thinking in teams. You should have interests in working with psychosis and complex trauma where there is associated risk, including providing direct psychological assessments and interventions, engaging with families and loved ones and working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts with other mental health disciplines and with other agencies.
In addition to a clinical caseload in the secure setting, a significant aspect of the role is input to the community psychology service based at the William Morris Centre (DA2 7AF). This is a psychological assessment and intervention service specialising in working with people in the community seeking to address their difficulties with interpersonal functioning and risk of harm to others.
This post offers the consolidation of skills at a Band 7, progressing into greater leadership and preceptorship to an 8A post without re-interview or moving roles.
Main duties of the job
Further to the above, you will supervise and manage assistant psychologists, supervise psychological interventions delivered by MDT colleagues, and supervise psychology students and doctoral trainees.
The Forensic Psychological Therapies department in Oxleas provides a breadth of professional opportunities across community, prison and hospital settings and opportunities for research and career progression through ongoing professional development. The post holder will be encouraged to consolidate and develop their skills and clinical interests in a friendly and supportive multi-professional and multi-agency context. Aside from the stimulating clinical work, benefits of the post include monthly psychology teaching sessions, monthly peer supervision in addition to regular individual supervision, a range of CPD opportunities and opportunities for future career progression within the department. There is access to a network of specialist psychological supervision groups across the forensic directorate. Professionally, psychologists in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust are highly valued and occupy a variety of directorate and Trust-wide leadership roles, including quality assurance, quality improvement, and operating as Responsible Clinicians.
We welcome applicants who are newly qualified or are approaching qualification who are enthusiastic and dedicated to working in this field, with or without prior experience in secure or forensic services.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. These include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care. 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. 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 values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Oxleas operates a probationary period. We offer a relocation package. Information is available on request.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To clinically deliver psychological assessments and interventions to a caseload of inpatient and community service users.
- To offer psychological advice and consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues and other agencies that promotes patient, carer and staff safety and wellbeing.
- With support from the Inpatient Psychology Lead and line manager, to promote psychological and trauma informed approaches to care.
- Responsibility for supervising and professionally managing assistant psychologists.
- Supervising and oversight of the supervision of trainees and students.
- Enable all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by contributing to a psychologically safe environment.
- To undertake delegated tasks pertaining to governance and service developments relevant to the role.
- To work autonomously with professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
- To utilise research skills for audit, research, and policy and service development within the forensic specialties directorate.
- To champion the Trusts vision and values.
- To focus on enabling all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To clinically deliver psychological assessments and interventions to a caseload of inpatient and community service users.
- To offer psychological advice and consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues and other agencies that promotes patient, carer and staff safety and wellbeing.
- With support from the Inpatient Psychology Lead and line manager, to promote psychological and trauma informed approaches to care.
- Responsibility for supervising and professionally managing assistant psychologists.
- Supervising and oversight of the supervision of trainees and students.
- Enable all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by contributing to a psychologically safe environment.
- To undertake delegated tasks pertaining to governance and service developments relevant to the role.
- To work autonomously with professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
- To utilise research skills for audit, research, and policy and service development within the forensic specialties directorate.
- To champion the Trusts vision and values.
- To focus on enabling all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment
Person Specification
Qualifications and Registration
Essential
- Qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration.
- Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP or approaching registration
Experience
Essential
- Experience with formal risk assessment as required by the setting e.g. HCR-20
- Experience with assessment and therapy with people with severe and enduring mental health problems
- Experience of at least 2 forms of psychological therapy and at least 2 forms of assessment
Desirable
- Experience of working in forensic settings
Person Specification
Qualifications and Registration
Essential
- Qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration.
- Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP or approaching registration
Experience
Essential
- Experience with formal risk assessment as required by the setting e.g. HCR-20
- Experience with assessment and therapy with people with severe and enduring mental health problems
- Experience of at least 2 forms of psychological therapy and at least 2 forms of assessment
Desirable
- Experience of working in forensic settings
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).
