This post offers an exciting opportunity for a Senior Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to work with people on probation with complex personality difficulties and a high risk of harm to others, as part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway.
The successful applicant will act as the Lead Psychological Therapist for the London OPD Housing and Accommodation Support Service (OPD HASS) and also work into the South East London Integrated Community Pathways Service (SE ICPS). The SE ICPS is a team of Psychological Therapists, Clinical Practitioners, and Probation Officers that provides direct and indirect support to people on the OPD Pathway by supporting probation practitioners with consultation and working alongside them and the people they manage, as well as offering assessment and psychologically informed care and treatment directly to people on the OPD Pathway.The post holder will also be providing specialist consultation, training, and reflective staff support to OPD HASS.
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
As part of the broader Community OPD Pathway in London, we have the joint aims of reducing offending and improving psychological wellbeing.
In the indirect component of the ICPS work, the post holder will be responsible for providing support to probation practitioners in identifying and managing people on probation who present a high risk of serious offending that is linked to personality difficulties. This will include offering individual and group consultations, joint working, training, staff support, and reflective practice.
In the direct component of the work, the post holder will carry out intake assessments for the SE ICPS, including structured risk assessments, and make recommendations for risk management and treatment.
The post holder will oversee the work of Clinical Practitioners working with the individuals presenting with the highest level of risk and need. The post holder will also provide enhanced therapeutic interventions (e.g., Mentalisation Based Therapy, EMDR, Schema Therapy) and other evidenced based interventions for people with complex trauma and personality difficulties.
The post holder will utilise research skills in audit and other research and development activities. They will supervise and direct the work of junior psychological therapists and assistant and trainee psychologists as required. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines, policies and procedures of LPP’s services, and overarching objectives of LPP and the OPD Pathway.
This advert closes on Friday 24 Jan 2025
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