Job summary
The postholder will provide a specialist service of substance misuse expertise to the pan-London Integrated Pathways Community Service, working together with NPS colleagues and service users to deliver the desistance and stabilisation phase of the ICPS. London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering a pan-London Integrated Community Pathways Service (ICPS) for the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway alongside Probation Service London (PSL) colleagues.
Main duties of the job
To receive regular supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and/or relevant senior professional colleague, and line management from the identified line manager. To continue to gain post-qualification experience in psychosocial interventions and management, within and beyond the principal service area where the post-holder is employed. To develop skills in teaching, training and supervision. To contribute to external and internal training programmes.
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
General Duties:
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To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).
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To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice across the service, by continuing to develop relevant professional skills taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the relevant disciplines.
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To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
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To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
Person Specification
Education/qualification
Essential
- Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
- NVQ level 4 in Health and Social Care, and/or equivalent professional qualification (e.g. Health Care, Social Work, equivalent overseas qualification).
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of delivering individual and group interventions with a focus on substance misuse
- Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.
- Experience of working with service users with complex personality difficulties.
- Experience of inter-agency working.
- Experience of working with offending behaviour and with criminal justice agencies
Skills/Ability/knowledge
Essential
- Competence in the assessment of risk
- Ability to establish rapport and appropriate therapeutic relationships with service users
- Ability to ensure comprehensive assessments, formulations and reviews.
- Ability to appropriately share information with professionals in pursuance of shared goals.
- Ability deliver and monitor structured interventions to service users with a range of needs
- Ability to organise, coordinate and prioritise caseloads.
- Ability to ensure own and others' high quality and defensible case records and documents
- Specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of desistance with offenders
- Resilience to work in an often hostile environment
- Ability to make effective decisions, and escalate, applicable to the level of the role.
- Ability to work independently and flexibly, to manage workload and meet service needs.
- Ability to manage emotionally challenging situations or discussions appropriately.
- Ability to deal with emergency situations/crises safely and effectively; frequent exposure to highly distressing/emotional situations; exposure to verbal aggression and risk of physical aggression.
- Ability to work with diverse populations including high-risk and complex offenders.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in complex, contentious and sensitive situations.
- Commitment to confidentiality, professional boundaries, and safeguarding procedures.
Effort and Environment
Essential
- Physical Effort The Post Holder will have a combination of sitting, standing and walking.
- Mental Effort Frequent concentration required for all client sessions, team meetings and service data monitoring.
- Emotional Effort Ability to manage complex emotionally charged environments as per challenges of criminal justice services Support service working with emotionally demanding clients.
- Working Conditions Possible exposure to verbal abuse.
Other requirement
Essential
- An ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Able to travel throughout the catchment area,without unnecessary delay
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Lewisham Probation Office
208 Lewisham High Street
London
SE13 6JP
United Kingdom
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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