This is an exciting opportunity for a psychotherapist, CBT therapist, clinical, counselling or forensic psychologist to join the Greenwich ADAPT team.

This is a great role for someone with an interest in working with a diverse population across Greenwich and Woolwich, with a variety of clinical presentations including those with difficulties associated with trauma, relationships, self harm or suicidality, low mood, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder.

We are a broad psychological therapies team with clinical psychologists, CBT therapists, a group psychotherapist, and an art psychotherapist. Our main psychological modality is working relationally, usually within the mentalization based therapy model. We also offer Structured Clinical Management, CBT, EMDR, psychotherapy, and hope to set up a DBT group in the next 12 months.

Main duties of the job

The role involves a variety of duties including taking a teams approach, attendance and offering of a psychological perspective in MDT meetings, brief psychoeducation groups (8 weeks), longer term groups (up to 18 months) as well as opportunities for individual work (some brief and some up to 12 months).

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

Clinical:

. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Greenwich ADAPT teams 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, family members and others involved in the client's care

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems and offending behaviour, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework or the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence or efficacy, across the full range or care settings

To be responsible for Implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers. families and groups, within and across teams employed Individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework or understanding and care to the benefit of all clients or the service, across all settings and agencies

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management

To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for including planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA Including clients, their carers, referring agents and others Involved the network of care

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, Information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care.

Person Specification

essential

Essential

• Experience of running groups

essential

Essential

• Experience Working with personality disorder

essential

Essential

• Experience working in secondary care community mental health services in the NHS

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Heights

68a The Heights, London SE7 8JH

Greenwich

SE7 8JH

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