Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Preceptorship

Job summary

Principal Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a) or Preceptorship (Band 7) Permanent - Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

Part-time will be considered.

We are delighted to be able to recruit to this highly innovative and exciting post that covers the pathway between acute in-patient and community mental health services in the London Borough of Bromley. Psychology's contribution to the acute in-patient settings is well established, and the link that these posts provide for service users who are transferring between the in-patient setting and community setting has been shown to be effective and highly valued.

The in-patient component of this post is based in Green Parks House in Bromley, a purpose-built acute admission unit:. The post-holder will join a well established multi-professional team and benefit from close working relationships with the attached Home Treatment Team and Liaison Team.

The community component of this post is based in the CMHT in Bromley (called ADAPT, in Carlton Parade, Orpington). The post holder will join a group of compassionate and highly motivated psychological therapists from a diverse range of backgrounds who hold specialist interests and expertise in working with people who experience severe mental health difficulties including trauma, affective disorders, personality disorders and psychosis.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide comprehensive psychological assessments, brief individual, group and family interventions for service users on the in-patient wards, as well as longer term psychological interventions for service users referred to the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). A number of service users will benefit from starting a psychological intervention whilst on the in-patient ward and then completing the work with the same clinician in the community. This is a highly innovative model of care aimed to improve the service user's experience of the interface between hospital and community treatment.

The post holder will have proven knowledge and skills in delivering a range of evidence-based psychological treatment models (e.g., CBT, MBT, DBT psychodynamic and/or systemic) and experience of working in secondary care mental health settings. The post holders will also need to be experienced in the psychological assessment and treatment of clients with complex emotional needs, particularly clients who experience severe interpersonal difficulties.

It is expected that the post holder will make a significant contribution to the ward and community staff teams via training, supervision, reflective practice, consultation and psychological formulation.

About us

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 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: o We're Kind o We're Fair o We Listen o We Care

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Green Parks House Princess University Hospital

Farnborough Common

Orpington

BR6 8NY

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

Green Parks House Princess University Hospital

Farnborough Common

Orpington

BR6 8NY

Employer's website

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

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