Job summary
To lead on the development and implementation of the Men's Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) service and hold management oversight and clinical supervision of the team
To oversee and be responsible for quality and performance, including quarterly reporting to commissioners.
To have oversight and sign off of court directions.
Main duties of the job
To develop psychological pathways, assessment processes and treatment interventions across all levels of stepped care model.
To liaise with other therapists within the mental health team, in third sector partner organisations and with other counselling providers to ensure robust referral pathways and appropriate division of cases.
To provide specialist psychological assessments to those referred to the MHTR service 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 and others involved in the clients' care.
To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health and personality problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
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 lead on psychological models of care and on effective and efficient psychology service provision in ongoing sectors of responsibility.
Where new services or psychology posts are formed, to assist new clinicians in developing and embedding psychological practice and integrating with the wider psychology service.
To contribute to thinking and writing for tender documents for new contracts; specifically in relation to designing psychological and mental health service provision but also in relation to overall service design.
To ensure psychological services are subject to appropriate governance processes. That they provide activity and outcome data to commissioners as appropriate for contract monitoring and service evaluation.
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To identify and to advise service managers on those aspects of the service where psychological or organisation matters need addressing.
To have oversight of the caseloads and workloads of all in psychology team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead on psychological models of care and on effective and efficient psychology service provision in ongoing sectors of responsibility.
Where new services or psychology posts are formed, to assist new clinicians in developing and embedding psychological practice and integrating with the wider psychology service.
To contribute to thinking and writing for tender documents for new contracts; specifically in relation to designing psychological and mental health service provision but also in relation to overall service design.
To ensure psychological services are subject to appropriate governance processes. That they provide activity and outcome data to commissioners as appropriate for contract monitoring and service evaluation.
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To identify and to advise service managers on those aspects of the service where psychological or organisation matters need addressing.
To have oversight of the caseloads and workloads of all in psychology team.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- oDoctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, equivalent to that accredited by the BPS.
- oEvidence of significant post-qualification specialist training, experience and developing expertise in a specialist area of clinical practice
Experience
Essential
- oSubstantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including at a highly specialist level or an alternative agreed by the Chief Psychologist.
- oExperience of leadership, management and supervision of trainees and qualified staff including those from other disciplines.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- oAdvanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- oDoctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, equivalent to that accredited by the BPS.
- oEvidence of significant post-qualification specialist training, experience and developing expertise in a specialist area of clinical practice
Experience
Essential
- oSubstantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including at a highly specialist level or an alternative agreed by the Chief Psychologist.
- oExperience of leadership, management and supervision of trainees and qualified staff including those from other disciplines.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- oAdvanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
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).
