Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Job summary

Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Band 8a 0.6 fte Permanent

ADAPT-E, Carlton Parade, Orpington, Kent/Bromley

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an innovative and enthusiastic Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist in ADAPT-E in Orpington, SE London. ADAPT-E (Anxiety, Depression, Affective, Personality and Trauma) is a central part of the non-psychosis secondary care community mental service in the East of the borough of Bromley.

The post holder will join an established and integrated psychological therapies team within ADAPT-E which is comprised of Clinical Counselling and Associate Psychologists, Adult Psychotherapists, Art Psychotherapy and a Systemic Family Therapist. There is a clear and supportive local and Trust wide psychological therapies structure including an ADAPTE Lead Principal Psychologist, boroughwide Consultant Clinical Psychologist and wider links to similar teams and Heads of Profession across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The post presents an exciting opportunity to develop highly specialist, supervisory and leadership skills within secondary care adult mental health.

ADAPTE has been developing new ways of working with people presenting with interpersonal issues and complex trauma including a structured clinical management group program and a trauma stabilisation group program. These run alongside established provisions including dual modality MBT, EMDR, CAT, 3rd wave CBT, psychodynamic, systemic and integrative approaches. Personal modality preferences will be encouraged and respected.

The post holder will be involved with assessment, formulation and interventions to the ADAPT population. Supervision of doctoral trainees or junior members of the therapy team will also be expected as appropriate. Leadership support will be encouraged with the Locality Lead in terms of service development and development of the MDT more widely.

The Trust has consistently achieved high ratings in quality assessments, patient and staff surveys as result of an organisational culture which supports staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.

CPD and training are encouraged through the Trust with recent support going towards EMDR, MBT, CBT for personality disorder and DBT training.

The Psychology profession in Oxleas is well respected and represented at a high level within the Trust.

About us

Oxleas - About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. 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 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across 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

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Carlton Parade

1-6 Carlton Parade

Orpington

BR6 0JB

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Carlton Parade

1-6 Carlton Parade

Orpington

BR6 0JB

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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