We are delighted to offer this role, in which you can develop clinical specialism and leadership skills. Your main roles will be responsibility for psychological input toa low secure inpatient rehabilitation ward and being supported by a senior psychological therapist to lead the family and carers strategy for the Directorate, including facilitating a family and carers forum. You will also have the opportunity to receive specialist training and supervision in EMDR or Mentalization Based Treatment for a small caseload in our specialist therapies community service.

The Forensic Psychological Therapies department in Oxleas provides a breadth of opportunities across community, prison and hospital settings and opportunities for research and career progression through ongoing professional development. The post holder will be encouraged to consolidate and develop their skills and clinical interests in a friendly and supportive multi-professional and multi-agency context. Benefits of the post include monthly psychology teaching sessions, monthly peer supervision in addition to regular individual supervision, a range of CPD opportunities and opportunities for future career progression. There is access to a network of specialist psychological supervision groups across the forensic directorate. Professionally, psychologists in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust are highly valued and occupy a variety of directorate and Trust-wide leadership roles.

Main duties of the job

Your primary base will be Greenwood Ward, Memorial Hospital (SE18 3RG). This suits candidates with interests in working with psychosis where there are associated risky behaviours, often co-occurring with trauma, substance abuse, neurodevelopmental disorders and attachment difficulties. You will have opportunities to provide direct psychological assessments and interventions, engage with families,and to work closely with the wider MDT.

You will work to developing and embedding a strategy that focusses on the experiences of families, carers and loved ones, including services for support networks, overseeing carer involvement and developing your own systemic skills through training and practice.

A further aspect of the role is input to the community psychology service based at the William Morris Centre (DA2 7AF). This is a psychological assessment and intervention service specialising in working with people in the community seeking to address their difficulties with interpersonal functioning and risk of harm to others.

In addition to the above, you will supervise and manage an assistant psychologist and psychology students and doctoral trainees.

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.

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.

With supervision from a senior psychologist, to lead on directorate provision for families and carers.

Responsibility for supervising and professionally managing assistant psychologists.

Supervising and oversight of the supervision of trainees and students.

Enable all staff, 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 specialties directorate.

To champion the Trusts vision and values.

To focus on enabling all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 18 months post-qualification experience

Desirable

• Experience in a forensic setting
• Experience in specialist risk assessment e.g. HCR-20

Registration

Essential

• Registration with appropriate body e.g. HCPC at appropriate grade (i.e. full registration)

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding psychological formulation for complex high risk service users.

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Memorial Hospital

Shooters Hill

SE18 3RG

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