Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a) or Preceptorship (Band 7)
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Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a) or Preceptorship (Band 7)
Permanent Post 0.9 (33.75 hours) opportunities for flexible working.
We are seeking to recruit a skilled, innovative and compassionate Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work across the acute in-patient and community mental health services in the London borough of Greenwich.
Psychology's contribution in these settings is well established, and the link that this post provides for older people who are transferring between the in-patient and community setting has been shown to be effective and highly valued.
Role Description
This role involves 2.5 days based in the Older People CMHT at Memorial Hospital, Greenwich, and 2 days on Shepherdleas, the Older People acute ward at Oxleas House, Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This post would suit someone who has a genuine interest in working therapeutically with this varied and rewarding client group.
The post holder will join well-established multi-professional teams and benefit from close working relationships with other on-site psychological therapists. This is an exciting opportunity to improve the service user’s experience of the interface between hospital and community services and to provide innovation and leadership in the development of the transitional pathway for older people.
Responsibilities
- CMHT Part:
- Providing a specialist clinical service to clients and families.
- Supervising both qualified and trainee psychologists, as required.
- Joining a dynamic and integrative team, in which different models of therapy are used creatively and according to our service users’ needs.
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- Ward Role:
- Providing an assessment and intervention service to older people with a range of mental health needs including dementia.
- Offering stimulating and fulfilling opportunities of working in a multi-modal trans-diagnostic approach with people with a wide variety of presentations and their families and carers.
- Supporting the wider inpatient team to think more psychologically and reflect on the wider organization of care.
- Strong focus on indirect work through team formulation, reflective practice, and staff training.
Support and Development
We will support you to learn the skills you need to thrive in this role. Specialist clinical supervision will be provided. The post sits alongside other highly skilled and motivated psychological therapies staff who meet regularly to provide peer support, and develop/review the psychological service across the Acute and Crisis Pathway.
About Oxleas
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 centers, schools, and people’s homes.
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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
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
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- We Listen
- We Care
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits, contact:
- Name: Dr Charlotte Gardner
- Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: charlotte.gardner14@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0208 3019400
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