Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Psychologist/Psychological Therapist
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Job Description
About the Role
To provide a qualified specialist clinical/forensic psychology service to clients across all sectors of care, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary team which has close links with a wide range of agencies.
Specifically, to provide individual assessment, treatment and case management to prisoners on the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway in HMP Swaleside Pathways Services.
Responsibilities
- Provide individual assessment, treatment, and case management to prisoners on the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway in HMP Swaleside Pathways Services.
- Work effectively with the non-residential pathways team to provide assessments, formulations, and intervention.
- Work from a joint approach with both clinicians and operational staff being involved in all aspects of the work.
- Provide regular supervision and facilitate supervision for other clinical and operational staff.
- Contribute to both internal and external training programs.
- Engage in research, evaluations, audits, and policy development.
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About the Department
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, including as Responsible Clinicians. The Psychological Therapies team is warm and friendly, whilst also being dynamic and innovative.
- Focus on attachment, trauma, and systemic approaches.
- Expert supervision available for several evidence-based therapy modalities such as Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation therapy (EMDR).
- The postholder will supervise pre-qualified psychological therapists including assistant psychologists, students, and trainees.
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.
- Multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages.
- Work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector through our new provider collaboratives.
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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.
Our Locations
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, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London.
Our Values
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
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits contact:
- Name: Rhian Watts
- Job title: Clinical Lead
- Email address: rhian.mortimer@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01795804232
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