Highly Specialised Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist

Job summary

Highly Specialised Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist, Band 8a Permanent - Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team led by a multi-professional approved clinician. Psychology is seen as central to providing formulation driven treatment and supporting team development. There is a big emphasis on relational security and trauma informed care as well as systemic working. The role aims to provide a highly specialist psychology service to clients of Barefoot Lodge, an inpatient, community facing open door rehabilitation ward, and the Bexley CMHT (Erith Centre). This includes providing highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment and offering continuity between Barefoot Lodge and the CMHT. There is opportunity to supervise trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists and qualified psychologists, to offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures is expected, as is utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development

Main duties of the job

The inpatient community integration unit offers direct evidence-based psychological interventions and indirect work to impact on wider environment. You would provide psychological assessment, group and individual interventions, input to care planning and discharge planning, family interventions, reflective practice groups for staff andsupervision to trainee clinical psychologists and assistant psychologists, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers. Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The community-based part of the role in the Community Mental Health Rehabilitation and Enabling Service (CMHRES) involves continuing psychological input into clients' care referred to the team for intensive rehabilitation input in community context. The role also includes conducting complex psychological assessment for both CBT for Psychosis and Family Intervention as well as delivering one-to-one and group therapy, supervising trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists and qualified psychologists; offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to a range of wider services. There is potential for input also into a systemic family clinic linked to the service.

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 Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Erith Centre

Park Crescent

Erith

DA8 3EE

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Erith Centre

Park Crescent

Erith

DA8 3EE

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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