Job summary
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Snr CBT Therapist
Band 8b
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a highly skilled, innovative and experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, or Senior CBT Therapist, to provide operational, clinical and professional leadership in the Bromley Mental Health Hub. The post holder will take a lead role in managing and developing the psychological therapies pathway in the hub and linking this to talking therapies services and secondary care mental health teams. the postholder will also provide clinical leadership within the Newly formed Bromley Mental Health Hub.
Main duties of the job
Working with and reporting to the Head of Psychological Therapies in Primary care , the postholder will provide skilled and experienced leadership for the psychological therapies staff and the wider hub team.
The postholder will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychological therapies service across the Bromley mental health pathway.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the service who provide psychologically-based care and treatment.
To provide consultation to GPs and other referrers to the mental health hub and to advise about psychological treatments and pathways.
To provide consultation and reflective practice and incident debriefs to the service and to facilitate team working, psychologically informed practice, trauma-informed care and appropriate treatment pathways to optimise service user journey and experience across service transitions.
The post will also involve close organisational liaison with the wider Oxleas mental health system and third sector partners.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the teams/service. To contribute to the overall management of the service.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Doctorate level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or BABCP accredited CBT Therapist
Essential
Essential criteria
- Substantial post qualification experience of working in community mental health settings
- Evidence of experience of service user involvement
- Evidence of working with clients with complex and co morbid mental health problems
Essential
Essential criteria
- Experience of service evaluation and audit
Leadership and supervision
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervision of clinical staff
- Experience of project leadership
Working with Referrers and Stakeholders
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working with GP or other referrers and stakeholders
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lucy Hickey
- Job title
- Head of Psychological Therapies in Primary Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07789 615536
- Additional information
Barbara Idowu, Locum Consultant Psychologist
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