We are seeking to recruit a fixed term Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist at the Bracton Centre for 0.7 WTE (26.25 hours) while the current postholder is on secondment.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop and expand leadership skills. We welcome secondment opportunities where existing managers agree.
The post holder will be one of the senior psychological therapists at the secure inpatient services at the Bracton Centre and Memorial Hospital. You will provide clinical input to an acute ward and line manage / clinically supervise qualified and pre-qualified psychological therapists in the service. You will undertake wider leadership roles within the service.
Oxleas Forensic Psychological Therapies department is an unusually large, long established and nationally well regarded specialty. Psychological therapists are highly valued within the wider directorate and Trust and occupy a variety of service-wide leadership roles. Staff report the highest levels of job satisfaction in a Trust recognised for positive employee feedback. The Psychological Therapies team is warm and friendly, whilst also being dynamic and innovative. There is a focus on attachment, trauma and systemic approaches with expert supervision available for evidence-based therapy modalities such as MBT and EMDR. We offer a unique range of training opportunities and will invest in supporting you to extend your knowledge and expertise.
· To work closely with the inpatient psychology lead to embed psychologically informed practices, and deliver a psychological assessment and intervention service across the Bracton Centre and Memorial.
· To clinically deliver psychological services 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.
· Responsibility for supervising and professionally managing qualified psychologists, psychological therapists and assistant psychologists, and responsibility for overseeing others deliver supervision and line management.
· Supervising and oversight of the supervision of trainees and students.
• Develop and oversee high quality clinical risk assessments using structured tools.
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
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users with mental health difficulties, personality difficulties and high harm offending histories referred to the service 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 service users, family members and others involved in the their care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s clinical problems and risk, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of 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 a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Enable all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To be responsible to the inpatient psychological therapies lead for delegated tasks pertaining to governance, contracts, monitoring and service developments.
• To work autonomously with professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• To deputise for the inpatient psychological therapies lead in their absence.
• To utilise research skills for audit, research, and policy and service development within the forensic specialties directorate.
• Act as a role model and champion the Trust’s vision and values.
• Provide a service where people feel valued, developed and supported.
Please see Job Description for full details of the job.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Dec 2024
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