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Aspiring Psychologist Scheme - Assistant Psychologist Placement | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	14 Mawrth 2024
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£27,147 - £31,909 pro-rata pa inc.
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	14 Ebrill 2024
Lleoliad:	London, DA2 7AF
Cwmni:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Cytundeb
Cyfeirnod swydd:	6119890/277-6119890-FOR

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The Aspiring Psychologist Scheme is a paid work experience programme funded by NHS England to support graduates from underrepresented groups gain clinical experience.

This programme aims to strengthen applications for a number of unqualified psychological professional roles i.e. assistant psychologist, graduate mental health worker, psychological wellbeing practitioner (PWP) and many more, that routinely lead to a place on clinical doctoral programmes.

We are offering four aspiring psychology roles at Oxleas; each role is a work experience placement paid at Agenda for Change Band 4 and is intended to be offered as part time, working three days a week for 6 months however there is some flexibility in the hours and duration of the contract which can be agreed with successful applicants to accommodate other commitments.
Our aspiring psychology roles have been developed with careful consideration to offer you experience in an array of clinical and non-clinical activities integral in the running of a successful psychology service. You will have the opportunity to shadow qualified staff, support assessments with service users, contribute to service evaluation and to be part of a vibrant and passionate team of psychological professionals.
You will also be part of a continual professional development programme which will offer workshops in a range of subjects that will support you at the start of your career i.e. applications and interview skills, working within diversity and formulation, and have monthly reflective practice with your aspiring psychologist colleagues. Whereby you will have the opportunity to connect, share and reflect on your experiences.
Lastly, you will be ‘buddied’ with a assistant psychologist that will offer you mentorship and support throughout your time in the role.

Interviews will take place on the 25th & 26th March and 3rd April 2024.



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

We have four aspiring psychologist roles available and are offering 1 assistant psychologist role in each of the services below:
• HMP/YOI Isis (South-East London)
• The Sheppey cluster (Kent)
• The Bracton Centre (Dartford)
• The Integrated Community Pathways Services (ICPS)


HMP/YOI Isis
HMP/YOI Isis is a Category C/Young Offenders prison that houses young men between the ages of 18-27 years old who have been sentenced. The Psychological Therapies Service at HMP/YOI Isis works within the wider Integrated Mental Health Team, which is a multidisciplinary team, comprising psychologists and psychotherapists, psychiatrists, nursing staff and occupational therapists. The Psychological Therapies Service provides psychological assessment, psychological formulation and psychological interventions (group or individual) for young men who would like to engage with the service and improve their mental health. The team work within a trauma informed care model which includes supporting prison colleagues by providing teaching, training and consultation.

Sheppey Sites

The integrated mental health teams within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust offer a trauma informed and needs led service that intends to provide rapid and easy access to a range of low and high intensity interventions for differing degrees of mental health need among prisoners across the Isle of Sheppey establishments: HMP Elmley (a local remand prison serving the Kent courts) and HMP Swaleside, offering long term high security for over 800 men. The service’s operational model comprises of a phased based approach, offering structured and time limited evidence-based psychological interventions to those with mental health problems. The IMHT has the expertise to provide consultation and advice on the delivery of a range of mental health psychological services for service users ranging from self-help literature to medium term group interventions designed to, for example, raise awareness and coping skills for behaviours and emotional instability typically associated with personality disturbance. It includes self-help, guided self-help, psychoeducational workshops, short- and medium-term group work, and individual psychological therapies and counselling.

The Bracton Centre
You will be based at the Bracton Centre, a medium-secure mental health service for people who have harmed others and whose mental health needs is associated with their risk to
other people. Your role will be varied, including contributing to psychological and violence risk assessments and reports, outcome measures, co-facilitating psychology psychoeducation groups and contributing to multi-disciplinary clinical meetings, as well as other duties. You will have opportunities to observe qualified psychological therapists deliver case consultations and reflective practice sessions in the service. There are a number of assistant psychologists, students and trainees in the local service and the wider department with peer support opportunities including reflective practice. Depending on your working days, you will have opportunities to benefit from programmes of teaching and training available to pre-qualified psychologists, the wider psychology department and the Bracton Centre.


The Integrated Community Pathways Services (ICPS)
This post offers an exciting opportunity for an assistant psychologist with an interest in working with people with offending history and complex personality difficulties to work in
partnership with colleagues within Probation Service London (PSL) as part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway.
The Integrated Community Pathways Services (ICPS) are teams of psychologists, psychotherapists, clinical practitioners and probation practitioners that provides both direct
and indirect support to people on probation presenting with complex personality difficulties and a high risk of harm to others with the joint aims of reducing offending and improving psychological wellbeing.
The post holder would have the opportunity to support qualified psychological therapists with offering consultation and developing formulations for probation practitioners managing people with complex difficulties, participate in assessments and co-deliver psychological interventions. The OPD pathway also has a strong focus on service user involvement and post holders would have the opportunity top work alongside people with lived experience in developing and delivering the service offer.
Services are offered Pan-London and placements could therefore be arranged with consideration to the geographical preference of applicants however travel across London for
appointments would be required. Travel expenses will be reimbursed as per trust policy (please note that home-to-base commute is not covered as a travel expense).

Please note: Candidates successful at interview will undergo NHS and additional HMPPS checks; full clearance is required prior to starting the role.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.



You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.



Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.



In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).




This advert closes on Sunday 17 Mar 2024

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