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OPD Women's Service Psychological Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 p.a.inc. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 2EL |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6387012/277-6387012-FOR |
Summary
Are you interested in working with people on probation?
Are you interested in working with women with attachment difficulties, trauma, and personality difficulties?
Are you interested in multi-agency working to deliver key outcomes for service users?
This post is based within London Pathways Partnership (LPP) part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway. The LPP is a partnership of five NHS trusts, probation and third sector partners providing a comprehensive and innovative approach to psychologically informed risk management for people on probation.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a psychological therapist within our Community OPD Service in London. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic person to support the delivery of the Women’s Pathway.
For genuine occupational reasons we are looking to appoint a female candidate only (exemption under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9).
The role is varied and will include providing psychologically informed support to a female approved premise and the OPD Pathway’s women’s specialist accommodation service. Core duties will include joint assessments of women with partner agencies, offering consultation and joint case work to residents and keyworkers. The post holder will be based at LPP site in London Bridge as well as across the two residential sites in North-West and South-West London. In addition, the post holder is expected to work in other areas of London as part of the wider pan London Women’s team as required. The post holder will lead on group-based interventions for women on the OPD pathway and contributes to the development of the Women’s Hub.
You may be required to provide clinical supervision and support to junior psychology and other staff. The service is passionate about offering gender-specific support to women, and therefore committed to service evaluation, audit, and research to help develop high-quality services for women on probation.
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
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
KEYRESULT AREAS
KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
· To provide direct psychological care (assessment and intervention) and support the delivery of psychologically informed care by all disciplines within the service.
KR 2 Responsibilities forteam and service clinical functioning
· Attend and contribute to directorate level meetings and forums, as directed.
· Contribute to the delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse communities.
· To be proactive in challenging discrimination.
KR 3 Service development
· To engage in service improvements through audits and quality improvement initiatives.
· To ensure the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
· Advise professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
KR 4 Management and supervision
· To provide line management to designated assistant psychologists.
· Provide supervision to students and trainees and to multi-disciplinary colleagues delivering psychological interventions.
· To support recruitment of assistant psychologists to the service.
KR 5 Teaching and Training
· To provide and support specialist clinical placements for students and trainees in applied psychological practice.
· To contribute to the delivery of teaching and training to junior psychological practitioners and specialist training to other professions.
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KR 6 Record-keeping and Information Governance
· To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
· To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry, in those parts of the service for which the post-holder has management or leadership responsibility.
KR 7 Research and development
· To undertake the planning, initiation and completion of research, service evaluation and audits, and quality improvement projects relevant to the service and the directorate research agenda.
KR 8 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
· To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a seniorpsychological practitioneraccording to professional and Trust guidelinesand, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
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 Wednesday 3 Jul 2024
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