Specialist Clinical Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 October 2024 |
| Location: | Woolwich, SE18 6QR |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6518106/277-6518106-CMH |
Summary
Adult Community and Mental Health Directorate (Greenwich)
Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Band 7 1.0 WTE, permanent contract
Greenwich East ICMP (Psychosis and Bipolar team)
We are seeking enthusiastic candidates for an new and exciting vacancy within Greenwich secondary care mental health. This post is suitable for a newly qualified psychologist or existing Band 7 candidates looking for diverse experiences in an alternative setting.
We welcome applications who are interested in a part time position.
We welcome applicants who enjoy working closely alongside other disciplinesandwithin a context where multiple psychological approaches are valued.
You will work with people with different backgrounds and will ideally be passionate about equal opportunities and client-centred care. Working with clients across psychosis team, you will have an opportunity to develop experience and skills in psychological interventions with a varied client group.
We especially wish to develop systemic and group work in the team. The post holder will work collaboratively with teams in different clinical contexts including group work, assessments, systemic and family consultations and individual therapy. They will receive regular supervision and access to networks to support their professional development. If desired, there are also opportunities to gain experience in different teams including our local Family Therapy service.
The locality base is in Woolwich. As a London borough, Greenwich offers a rich, culturally diverse and stimulating environment and the post will receive the outer London weighting.
Oxleas – About Us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. 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 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, 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
Job summary/Overview of the post
To provide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to clients of the ICMP (psychosis and bipolar) pathway across all sectors of care. This includes: providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy with individuals families and groups, consulting with families, team colleagues and non professional carers about psychological models and ideas, and working within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. There is also an expectation for the postholder to develop group and /or systemic and family work in these contexts.
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Sep 2024
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