Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling/ Psychological Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,388 - £62,785 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE18 1BH |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6342484/277-6139083-CMH-A |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a new and innovative Primary Care Hub consisting of Oxleas NHS Foundation trust and voluntary sector services offering a collaborative and holistic approach to preventing major mental health problems.
Psychological therapists will be developing, overseeing and evaluating psycho education /wellbeing programmes and evaluating these as well as advising primary care staff on complex cases.
The post holder will also work on a sessional basis in the Adapt (Anxiety, Depression , Personality Disorder and Trauma ) pathway with opportunities to join an research trial for Mentalisation Based Therapy or a pilot Dialectical Behaviour Therapy team.
The hub has strong links with the Greenwich Family Consultation Team and is developing systemic practice.
Greenwich is a culturally diverse London borough with a range of voluntary and community services to work alongside. The post holder will work with people with different backgrounds and should be committed to equal opportunities.
The postholder will supervise a team of assistant psychologists and work closely with NHS talking therapies service, GPs and secondary care psychological therapies to ensure clients access appropriate interventions. Applicants with an interest in developing new ways of working and incorporating systemic ideas and models into clinical practice will be welcome.
Clinical work will involve supervising and running groups and client work in the Adapt pathway.
The post holder will be resilient, with a ‘can do’ attitude and have the skills, experience and personal qualities required to be able to manage the competing demands of building and maintaining the morale of staff whilst meeting the service’s targets for quality and activity.
The post holder will receive regular clinical and managerial supervision and support and join other senior clinicians within hub services in other boroughs.
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
• We Listen
• We Care
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Jun 2024
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