Job summary We are seeking to recruit a fixed term maternity cover for a Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist at the William Morris Centre for 0.7 WTE (26.25 hours). The post holder will be the service lead of the William Morris Centre, holding operational and clinical responsibilities. The William Morris Centre is a community psychological service, working with adults who exhibit complex emotional and relational problems associated with violence and/or sexual harm to others. The service provides psychological assessment and intervention with a social inclusion offer. 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. We welcome secondment opportunities where existing managers agree. Main duties of the job Clinical and operational responsibilities associated with the service. Supervision and management of the service and team. Liaising and reporting to directorate management teams. Provide advice and consultation to referrers. Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures, and the department's objectives. Directly contribute to workforce development through both staff consultation, supervision and the provision of training to a range of staff including partner agencies and allied professionals. Utilise research skills in audit and other research and development activities. Supervise and direct the work of qualified, assistant and trainee psychologists as required. Duty lead, to support and manage any risk issues as they arise. Provide supervision and management to qualified and pre-qualified staff. To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions. To provide specialist consultation to other professionals in health and probation. 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 Date posted 06 November 2024 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 8b Salary £67,950 to £78,028 a year pa inc pro rata Contract Fixed term Duration 9 months Working pattern Part-time Reference number 277-6725966-FOR Job locations William Morris Centre Bracton Centre Dartford DA2 7AF Job description Job responsibilities To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community. To provide culturally appropriate psychological therapy interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required. To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care. To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To undertake psychometric and neuropsychological testing as appropriate, including selecting the appropriate tests, administering and scoring the tests in accordance with the manual, and interpreting the findings in the context of all relevant information. To undertake risk assessment, risk monitoring and risk management for individual clients in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory agencies as appropriate. To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities served. Liaison with other relevant services in health and probation. Implement outcome measurement as determined by the local service. Attend and contribute to psychological therapies and directorate meetings and forums. Please see Job Description for full details of the job. Job description Job responsibilities To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community. To provide culturally appropriate psychological therapy interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required. To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care. To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To undertake psychometric and neuropsychological testing as appropriate, including selecting the appropriate tests, administering and scoring the tests in accordance with the manual, and interpreting the findings in the context of all relevant information. To undertake risk assessment, risk monitoring and risk management for individual clients in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory agencies as appropriate. To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities served. Liaison with other relevant services in health and probation. Implement outcome measurement as determined by the local service. Attend and contribute to psychological therapies and directorate meetings and forums. Please see Job Description for full details of the job. Person Specification Qualifications Essential Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration. Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline Desirable CPD in leadership. Professional Registration Essential Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BACP registered status/BABCP Experience Essential Completion of a minimum of four years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience (including 2 years at a highly specialist level) in relevant settings Experience of undertaking leadership roles Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in adult mental health or forensic services Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health or forensic services Experience of supervising psychological assessments / interventions Desirable Experience of having worked specialist services for forensics, mood disorders or personality disorder / complex trauma Experience of working in forensic and / or prison settings Person Specification Qualifications Essential Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration. Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline Desirable CPD in leadership. Professional Registration Essential Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BACP registered status/BABCP Experience Essential Completion of a minimum of four years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience (including 2 years at a highly specialist level) in relevant settings Experience of undertaking leadership roles Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in adult mental health or forensic services Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health or forensic services Experience of supervising psychological assessments / interventions Desirable Experience of having worked specialist services for forensics, mood disorders or personality disorder / complex trauma Experience of working in forensic and / or prison settings 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Address William Morris Centre Bracton Centre Dartford DA2 7AF Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)