Psychological Therapies - AMH Crisis & Community Sessions

Based at Woodlands Unit, Queen Marys Hospital and Erith Centre

12 month Fixed Term or Secondment Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work full-time in an innovative role across two services in Bexley - Acute Inpatient and Community - to improve continuity of care for adult mental health clients. We wish to recruit an enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with a commitment to both multidisciplinary team working and working with adults presenting with complex mental health difficulties. The continuity role which sits across the two teams is now well-established and valued. You will be welcomed into a well-established and very supportive group of Oxleas Adult Mental Health psychological therapists.

The post is split equally across the Woodlands inpatient unit and the Bexley Intensive Case Management for Psychosis (ICMP) team.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in delivering CBT for Psychosis and Family Interventions for Psychosis, or a willingness to develop these skills through training. Specialist supervision in CBT and Family Interventions for Psychosis is provided, and there is access to further training in these and other approaches. Oxleas has a vibrant CPD Programme and opportunities may be available to work in other areas as part of CPD.

Full time, part-time and Job Share applications will be considered for this role

Main duties of the job

The acute inpatient crisis service offers both direct evidence-based psychological interventions and indirect work to impact on wider environment. As a Band 8a Psychologist you would providepsychological assessment, brief crisis interventions to improve the care pathway into the community,group interventions,individualpsychological therapy and risk formulations,crisis planning, input to care planning and discharge planning,family interventions, reflective practice groups for staff.

The community-based part of therole in the ICMP involves continuing psychological input into clients' care as they move on from the ward into the local community team. The role also includes conducting complex psychological assessment for both CBT for Psychosis and Family Intervention as well as delivering one-to-one and group therapy, supervising trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists and qualified psychologists offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to a range of wider services. There is potential for input also into a systemic family clinic linked to the service.

The successful candidates will join highly skilled multi-professional teams that offers mental health services across the London Borough of Bexley. The teams includes clinical and counselling psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, mental health nurses and psychiatrists.

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

It is expected that the postholder will make a significant contribution to the staff teams via training, supervision, reflective practice, consultation and psychological formulation. This is welcomed by both teams, where psychology is highly valued.

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is an innovative and successful mental health and learning disability and community health trust providing services within the London boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley. The Trust has a large, well established and supportive psychological therapies service. This provides strong leadership and professional management and supports staff by prioritising supervision and continuing professional development.

Service-related research is encouraged and supported by providing protected time for these activities. There are strong links with Canterbury Christ Church University Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) Training Scheme. We have good working relationships with both managers and other senior clinicians, and psychological therapies are well represented at senior managerial and clinical levels.

Please review documents attached for full job description and person specification for this innovative post based across inpatient and community settings offering continuity of care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level qualification
• HCPC Registration

Desirable

• Experience in working with psychosis
• Experience working in acute/crisis AMH settings

Skills

Essential

• Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training including training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

Desirable

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies

Experience

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

Desirable

• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Erith Centre / Woodlands Unit Queen Mary's Hospital

Park Crescent

Erith

DA8 3EE

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