Job summary
Band 8a - Highly Specialist Adult Psychotherapist / Art Psychotherapist Supervisor
To provide a qualified highly specialised psychotherapy supervision service to members of the Woman's Service team. To provide highly specialist expertise in psychodynamic or integrative psychotherapy for survivors of historic child sexual abuse and to provide supervision of this within the team of The Woman's Service.
To offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues in team meetings and supervision and to stand in for them in their absence at team meetings and other forums. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. When required to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialist supervision of clients referred to WS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including clinical case notes, questionnaires, psychological assessments.
To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist supervisory inputs across the WS team. Some of these interventions might need to be delivered remotely and online.
To exercise autonomous professional supervisory responsibility for treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To assist the lead psychotherapists of the service with the management of the waiting list which involves engaging in case discussions in the team, and allocation of cases as appropriate.
To provide professional and clinical supervision to trainee and honorary psychotherapists in the Woman's Service team
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To contribute to audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
About us
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 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:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
To provide highly specialist supervision of clients referred to WS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including clinical case notes, questionnaires, psychological assessments.
To supervise the clinical psychotherapy of clients of The Womans Service, taking into account their mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist supervisory inputs across the WS team. Some of these interventions might need to be delivered remotely and online.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual or group.
To exercise autonomous professional supervisory responsibility for treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to honorary and trainee psychotherapists within The Womans Service team by contributing directly to the trainees progress in liaison with the training organisation. To conform with the training organisations requirements.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
To assist the lead psychotherapists of the service with the management of the waiting list which involves engaging in case discussions in the team, and allocation of cases as appropriate.
Teaching, training, and supervision
To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior psychotherapist or other senior professional colleague.
To provide professional and clinical supervision to trainee and honorary psychotherapists in the Womans Service team
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To have up-to-date knowledge of guidance for psychological professionals and of trust policies and procedures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and to disseminate this knowledge to other professionals as needed.
To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
Research and service evaluation
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake appropriate research or provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
To contribute to audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
To provide highly specialist supervision of clients referred to WS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including clinical case notes, questionnaires, psychological assessments.
To supervise the clinical psychotherapy of clients of The Womans Service, taking into account their mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist supervisory inputs across the WS team. Some of these interventions might need to be delivered remotely and online.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual or group.
To exercise autonomous professional supervisory responsibility for treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to honorary and trainee psychotherapists within The Womans Service team by contributing directly to the trainees progress in liaison with the training organisation. To conform with the training organisations requirements.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
To assist the lead psychotherapists of the service with the management of the waiting list which involves engaging in case discussions in the team, and allocation of cases as appropriate.
Teaching, training, and supervision
To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior psychotherapist or other senior professional colleague.
To provide professional and clinical supervision to trainee and honorary psychotherapists in the Womans Service team
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To have up-to-date knowledge of guidance for psychological professionals and of trust policies and procedures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and to disseminate this knowledge to other professionals as needed.
To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
Research and service evaluation
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake appropriate research or provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
To contribute to audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- UKCP or HCPC Psychotherapy qualification
Experience
Essential
- At least 5 years post qualification experience
Desirable
- Working with survivors of trauma and child sexual abuse
Skills
Essential
- Skills in providing clinical supervision
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- UKCP or HCPC Psychotherapy qualification
Experience
Essential
- At least 5 years post qualification experience
Desirable
- Working with survivors of trauma and child sexual abuse
Skills
Essential
- Skills in providing clinical supervision
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).
