Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
This is an exciting opportunity for a kind, dynamic, motivated and clinically skilled psychologist to join the Oxleas Mental Health Liaison Teams. The post would be well suited to a team orientated, dynamic psychologist with interests in clinical leadership, consultation, crisis work and the interface between physical and mental health difficulties.
The post is split with 2 days based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich and 2 days Princess Royal Hospital, Orpington. Additional time of up to one day a week will also be provided to align with specialist interests, which could include specialist clinical interests or service initiatives.
The post holder will join the expanding psychological therapy provision within Oxleas Acute and Crisis Directorate which includes equivalent and Consultant leadership roles on the acute wards and Home Treatment Teams as well as APs, B7 Psychological Therapists and trainees. This is an exciting time for Acute & Crisis Psychology in Oxleas with the current Acute Clinical Director being a Psychologist.
Oxleas has developed an excellent reputation as a place to work. It was listed as one of the The Sunday Times top ten large organisations to work for in 2023, and also won the HSJ Trust of the Year Award in 2023. We are deeply proud of our culturally diverse workforce and our shared values of kindness, fairness and caring.
Main duties of the job
* Clinical Leadership, service development and consultation.
* Psychological assessment and intervention with service users across the remit of the MH Liaison Teams. This would include A&E as well as the wider physical health wards of the hospital sites.
* Risk management and care planning with services users and their support networks.
* Development and supervision of evidence-based psychosocial interventions delivered by the wider clinical team.
* Supervision, consultation, and provision of reflective practice.
* Liaison with system partners (e.g., GPs, community mental health services, voluntary services)
* Work autonomously within clinical and professional guidelines.
* Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Person Specification
Registration
* Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Qualifications
* Doctorate level (or equivalent) qualification in clinical or counselling psychology
* Specialist Training in relevant related modality
Experience
* Significant experience working as a Highly Specialist Psychologist
* Experience of working with complex mental health
* Experience of working in acute and crisis mental health settings
* Experience of supervision and/or reflective practice
* Experience of service development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
For further details / informal visits contact: Dr Kim Griffiths, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead for Psychology Bromley Acute & Crisis and ADAPT
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