Job summary
This maternity cover post iswithin a lively and supportive psychology department and includes two service areas where there is an association between service users' mental health difficulties and the criminal justice system.
The majority of the week is based in the inpatient forensic psychological therapies department at the Bracton Centre, with sessions at the psychology community service at the William Morris Centre (also DA2 7AF). At the Bracton Centre, the postholder will be part of a multi-disciplinary forensic team on a secure ward, providing a service to inpatients with forensic and mental health needs.
The post holder will have clinical sessions at the community psychology service based at the William Morris Centre. This psychological assessment and intervention service specialises in working with people in the community who are seeking interventions to address the traumas and interpersonal and emotional issues that underpin their risk of harm to others.
We would consider applications from those approaching qualification and those seeking secondment opportunities to widen their experiences.
Forensic experience is not necessary but the post suits candidates who are interested in working with complex presenting situations and are keen to learn and develop a variety of skills to assess, intervene and support other professionals.
Main duties of the job
Core parts of the role include direct and indirect psychological interventions, working with support networks, providing psychological perspectives in clinical meetings, leading on structured risk management tools and providing psychological consultation. There are opportunities for joint work with other psychological therapists through the therapies programme, as well as supervising and managing an assistant psychologist.
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 clinically deliver psychological assessments and interventions to a caseload of inpatient and community service users.
- Provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions for distress and risky behaviours.
- To offer psychological advice and consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues and other agencies that promotes patient, carer and staff safety and wellbeing.
- With support from the Inpatient Psychology Lead and line manager, to promote psychological and trauma informed approaches to care.
- Responsibility for supervising and professionally managing assistant psychologists.
- Enable all service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by contributing to a psychologically safe environment.
- To undertake delegated tasks pertaining to governance and service developments relevant to the role.
- To work autonomously with professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
- To utilise research skills for audit, research, and policy and service development within the forensic directorate.
- To champion the Trusts vision and values.
- Participate in service outcome monitoring.
- To undertake psychometric and neuropsychological testing and test interpretation as appropriate.
- To produce reports, in a timely manner, that convey complex information in ways that are understandable to the recipients of the reports.
- To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner information that may be contentious or highly distressing.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Has or approaching completion of doctoral psychology training, or a core mental health profession at MSc level plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration.
Desirable
- Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of adult clients with psychological needs of a complex nature under supervision.
- Experience in cognitive / neuropsychology testing
- Experience of structured risk assessments
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional groups.
Desirable
- Experience in forensic / secure settings
- Can practice at least two psychological therapies.
Prof Registration
Essential
- Registered or within 6-9 months of being registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline i.e., HCPC/UKCP/BACP registered status/BABCP.
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
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bracton Centre
135 Shooters Hill
London / Dartford
DA2 7AF
United Kingdom
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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