Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic psychological therapist to join our Greenwich community Secondary care psychology team (ADAPT) based in Woolwich and Charlton. This is to work with clients who experience difficulties associated with trauma, low mood, anxiety and personality related difficulties. Our Psychological Therapies Team offer a range of modalities including MBT, CBT, EMDR, art therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy. The team work closely with the wider MDT to provide Structured Clinical Management (SCM).
We also have plans to launch a DBT programme. You will form part of a growing and energetic psychological therapies team and have access to specialist modality specific supervision.
We have a permanent post (1.0wte) in Greenwich ADAPT East and a 12 month fixed term post (0.8 wte) in Greenwich ADAPT West.
We would welcome applications for psychotherapists, clinical, counselling or forensic psychologists with experience working with personality disorder, anxiety, depression and trauma.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified psychological therapy service to clients of the Adult Mental Health Greenwich ADAPT Service and other teams when necessary orappropriate: providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapyat the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychologicalcare to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers,working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overallframework of the team's policies and procedures.
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
Clinical:
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of Greenwich ADAPT clients and other people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across the In-patient service, Community Mental Health Team and other teams where necessary or appropriate and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
- Where appropriate, to undertake holistic initial assessment of new referrals to the In-patient service, Community Mental Health and other teams within the Adult Mental Health Service
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multidisciplinary care.
Leadership, Teaching, training and supervision:
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager) up to two sessions per week [pro rata].
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
- To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists ensuring the trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of Clinical Psychologists, Trainee and Assistant Clinical Psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual pieces of work for Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, and other relevant healthcare staff, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists
- To participate in recording information as per local policy so as to provide information about referrals and activity as needed.
- To manage the workloads of Specialist Clinical Psychologists, Assistant and Trainee Clinical Psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
Research and service evaluation
- To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the teams operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
- To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families.
Communication:
- Establish and maintain communication with people, both internally and externally to Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
- To ensure effective communication with the designated care coordinators, on routine and operational matters.
- To report on care delivery and document it in a timely manner andacceptable format.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of Greenwich ADAPT clients and other people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across the In-patient service, Community Mental Health Team and other teams where necessary or appropriate and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
- Where appropriate, to undertake holistic initial assessment of new referrals to the In-patient service, Community Mental Health and other teams within the Adult Mental Health Service
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multidisciplinary care.
Leadership, Teaching, training and supervision:
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager) up to two sessions per week [pro rata].
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
- To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists ensuring the trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of Clinical Psychologists, Trainee and Assistant Clinical Psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual pieces of work for Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, and other relevant healthcare staff, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists
- To participate in recording information as per local policy so as to provide information about referrals and activity as needed.
- To manage the workloads of Specialist Clinical Psychologists, Assistant and Trainee Clinical Psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
Research and service evaluation
- To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the teams operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
- To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families.
Communication:
- Establish and maintain communication with people, both internally and externally to Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
- To ensure effective communication with the designated care coordinators, on routine and operational matters.
- To report on care delivery and document it in a timely manner andacceptable format.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Entry-level 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. (A/I)
Essential
Essential
- Additional training beyond entrylevel qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Entry-level 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. (A/I)
Essential
Essential
- Additional training beyond entrylevel qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher
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).
