Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a 1.0, one-year fixed term band 7 Psychological Therapist post within the London Pathways Partnership (LPP). LPP is a consortium of five London NHS Trusts co-delivering community and custodial services under the national Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway programme in partnership with Her Majesty's Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) and third sector providers including Together for Mental Wellbeing, Women in Prison and Penrose. Our staff are among the most experienced teams nationally working with men and women who have serious offence histories that are linked to their personality difficulties.
This is an exciting and varied role for someone who is interested in providing clinical expertise in services for people who present with personality difficulties and complex needs. This is an excellent opportunity for a clinician who values cultural humility and trauma informed care principles, who can work in a gender responsive manner across all areas of their practice and who is committed to working in partnership with others to develop services that reflect this.
The post is based in the Housing and Support Service (HASS). HASS comprises of three residential projects in Catford, Redbridge and Brixton (women's service). The successful applicant will work across all three sites to deliver psychologically informed input to residents and staff although, they will be predominantly working within the women's OPD community pathway.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting and varied role for someone who is interested in providing clinical expertise in services for people who present with personality difficulties and complex needs. This is an excellent opportunity for a clinician who values cultural humility and trauma informed care principles, who can work in a gender responsive manner across all areas of their practice and who is committed to working in partnership with others to develop services that reflect this.
The post is based in the Housing and Support Service (HASS). HASS comprises of three residential projects in Catford, Redbridge and Brixton (women's service). The successful applicant will work across all three sites to deliver psychologically informed input to residents and staff although, they will be predominantly working within the women's OPD community pathway. This will also include providing psychologically informed support to a female Approved Premise in Battersea.
A women's community hub is in development and attached to the female HASS. You will play a key role in the development and delivery of this service, with a focus on service user involvement.
Core duties will include joint assessments with partner agencies, offering joint case work to residents and keyworkers and delivering group interventions for women e.g. DBT skills. The role will also involve providing support to a trainee forensic psychologist and on occasions assistant psychologists.
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients that present a forensic risk and based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or wider care and support needs of a clients with neurodevelopmental needs, mental health problems and offending behaviour, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, support and management. This should include a service to both mental health care-coordinators and other agencies.
- To chair and/or contribute to professional network meetings designed to ensure the clients care and support needs are met.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, and professional networks within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment and management options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients that present a forensic risk and based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or wider care and support needs of a clients with neurodevelopmental needs, mental health problems and offending behaviour, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, support and management. This should include a service to both mental health care-coordinators and other agencies.
- To chair and/or contribute to professional network meetings designed to ensure the clients care and support needs are met.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, and professional networks within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment and management options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical/forensic/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developments as accredited by the BPS.
- Relevant clinical qualification within health or social care professions; In addition to accreditation and registration with the relevant clinical body (e.g. Entry-level qualification in Applied Psychology (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level additional training) - accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration. Or Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC)
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (eg personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
Clinical
Essential
- 1.To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients that present a forensic risk and based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical/forensic/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developments as accredited by the BPS.
- Relevant clinical qualification within health or social care professions; In addition to accreditation and registration with the relevant clinical body (e.g. Entry-level qualification in Applied Psychology (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level additional training) - accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration. Or Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC)
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (eg personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
Clinical
Essential
- 1.To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients that present a forensic risk and based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
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.
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.
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).
