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Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 8b
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Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Band 8b
Permanent - Part Time – 3 X 0.6WTE / 22.5hrs per week
Available roles with:
Bexley Home Treatment Team
Greenwich Home Treatment Team
Bromley Home Treatment Team
This is an exciting opportunity for kind, motivated and clinically skilled psychologists
to join our Home Treatment Teams (HTT) in the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley
and Greenwich. We are looking for three psychologists who are able to lead and
inspire, and who are wanting to contribute to the development of highly effective
clinical teams.
The successful applicants will work closely with the three multi-disciplinary HTTs to
ensure that they are able to provide a range of evidence-based psychosocial
interventions for our service users who are in crisis, and their support networks
(including families and carers). The roles will also involve working collegiately with
clinical teams across the trust, service partners (e.g., third sector services), and other
statutory services.
Oxleas has developed an excellent reputation as a place to work. It was listed as one
of the The Sunday Times top ten large organisations to work for in 2023, and also
won the HSJ Trust of the Year Award in 2023. We are deeply proud of our culturally
diverse workforce and our shared values of kindness, fairness and caring.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
Psychological assessment and intervention with service users who present in a
state of psychological/ emotional crisis.
Risk management and care planning with services users and their support
networks.
Development and supervision of evidence-based psychosocial interventions
delivered by the wider clinical team.
Supervision, consultation, and provision of reflective practice.
Liaison with system partners (e.g., GPs, community mental health services,
voluntary services)
Work autonomously within clinical and professional guidelines.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Clinical
As the lead psychologist for the HTT you will provide specialist psychological
assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use,
interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of
sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report
measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semistructured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the
client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment
and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an
appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing
methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for
individuals, carers, families and groups, 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 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.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,
treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by
psychologically based care plans.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other
professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and
treatment plan.
To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a
psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the
service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the
dissemination of psychological research and theory.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and
to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of
risk assessment and management, including responsibilities within the policies
and clinical duties to safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex information
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under
their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both
uni- and multi-disciplinary care. This will require being able to convey this to
clients, families and colleagues with a range of understanding and knowledge
so will require the ability to be flexible, adaptive and simple but yet retain a
sophisticated understanding and approach. This communication is likely to
take place in situations which are highly emotive and with people who may
also have concurrent and/or associated physical health conditions.
To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and
appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment
team.
Leadership
To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling
psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills,
competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health
care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such
competencies.
To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional
supervision to qualified clinical staff attached to the service.
To provide advice, consultation and clinical supervision to other clinical
members of the service for their provision of psychologically based
interventions to help improve clients’ functioning.
To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling
psychology as appropriate.
To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and postgraduate training and clinical supervision.
To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client
group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management responsibilities
To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources
available to the HTT, whether in the form of additional qualified and
unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological
materials employed in the assessment and treatment of patients.
To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological
practice within the service.
To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing
process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees and
qualified psychologist and other clinical staff.
To provide day to day management of the psychology staff within the service.
To be an authorised signatory for staff related expenses.
Liaise with the budget holder to agree best use of funds and be responsible
for reviewing and monitoring usage.
To contribute to the overall management and functioning of the service.
Research
To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring
and development of the team’s operational policies, through the deployment
of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring
incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of
high quality care.
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 and provide research advice to other staff
undertaking research.
To initiate project management, including complex audit and service
evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and
improve services to clients and their families.
Communication
To maintain registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical
Psychologist.
To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest
professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and
external CPD training and development programmes.
To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology
within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the
skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular
professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement
with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related
disciplines.
To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping
including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the
responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with
professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, Health
Professions Council and Trust policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies
and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name
Dr Sharon Lines
Job title
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Manyleb y person
Registration
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Doctorate level (or equivalent) qualification in clinical or counselling psychology
Meini prawf dymunol
- Qualification in systemic or cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Significant experience working as a Highly Specialist Psychologist
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working with high risk service users
- Experience of working in acute and crisis mental health settings
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Dr Sharon Lines
- Teitl y swydd
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
Rhestr swyddi gyda Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust yn Proffesiynau perthynol i iechyd neu bob sector