Job summary
To support the delivery of the Swaleside Pathways Services which form part of the national Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPDP). These service are delivered by the London Pathways Partnership (LPP) which is a partnership of 5 London based NHS trusts working predominantly with complex and high risk service users in the criminal justice system. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is the lead LPP Trust for this service.
Main duties of the job
This role will be split between clinical duties within the Swaleside OPDP services and supporting research activity across the service.
This post offers an exciting opportunity for an assistant psychologist with an interest in working with people with offending history and complex personality difficulties. London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) services across several prisons in the Southeast of England and a pan-London Integrated Community Pathways Service (ICPS) in London, alongside HMPPS colleagues.
The OPD Pathway programme provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to the multi agency professionals working with them.
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
To support the delivery of the service by delivering socially creative and structured sessions on the service and assisting with the therapies delivery in the Pathways treatment service. There will be opportunities for conducting clinical assessments under supervision, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional, working independently according to a plan agreed with the qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, delivery orders, collection of statistics and development of audit and/or research projects. The post holder will benefit from the wider Assistant Psychologist training programme delivered at the Bracton Centre within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
MPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Job description
Job responsibilities
To support the delivery of the service by delivering socially creative and structured sessions on the service and assisting with the therapies delivery in the Pathways treatment service. There will be opportunities for conducting clinical assessments under supervision, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional, working independently according to a plan agreed with the qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, delivery orders, collection of statistics and development of audit and/or research projects. The post holder will benefit from the wider Assistant Psychologist training programme delivered at the Bracton Centre within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
MPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Prior experience working in a mental health / social care setting
Desirable
- Working with forensic service users
Experience
Essential
- Prior research experience at BSc level
Desirable
- Prior research experience to MSc level
Skills
Essential
- Good understanding of research methodology and statistics
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Prior experience working in a mental health / social care setting
Desirable
- Working with forensic service users
Experience
Essential
- Prior research experience at BSc level
Desirable
- Prior research experience to MSc level
Skills
Essential
- Good understanding of research methodology and statistics
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).
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).
