Senior Assistant Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	16 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£37,259 - £45,356 pa inc
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	15 Awst 2025
Lleoliad:	London, SE1 2EL
Cwmni:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7339354/277-7339354-LPP

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This post offers an exciting opportunity for a Senior Assistant Psychologist to join the pan-London Women's Mental Health Requirement (MHTR) Service. The service assesses women prior to sentencing, and provides mental health intervention to women across London as an alternative to short-term custodial sentences.

This is a London pathways Partnership (LPP) service, led by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with CNWL NHS Foundation Trust and Together for Mental Wellbeing.

MHTRs aim to reduce custodial sentences, improve wellbeing and address mental health needs associated with offending. MHTRs were introduced by the Criminal Justice Act in 2003, recognising that for many individuals who offend, mental health and substance misuse issues underpin their offending behaviour. This service aims to increase the use of MHTRs as part of a community sentence. The London Women's MHTR Service provides a primary-care level service and is also one of three pilot secondary care sites, testing pathways into secondary care services for individuals. The successful individual will have the opportunity to work across both services.

The post-holder will work according to national MHTR guidance, and local procedures. The role will include:

• To screen and assess for eligibility for Mental Health Treatment Requirements
• To support assessment and treatment interventions undertaken by the service.
• To undertake direct and indirect clinical work that is managed and goals agreed and reviewed through regular supervision by a qualified applied HCPC registered Psychologist.
• To plan, organise and co-teach psycho-educational courses and groups with appropriately qualified professional staff.
• To liaise with a range of services (including health, social care and voluntary agencies) relevant to the working area.
• To undertake projects relating to service development and evaluation.
• To set up databases, spreadsheets and using advanced IT skills in evaluation audit and research.

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

Clinical

1. To undertake assessments and interventions (including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observations and semi-structured interviews of clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care).

2. To assist in the development of psychologically based frameworks of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service.

3. To formulate and deliver care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems within settings where there may be a hostile atmosphere, challenging behaviour or high levels of expressed emotion.

4. To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.

5. To compile risk histories to inform care plans, risk and crisis plans.

6. To work with other team members to improve care practices and the quality of life of clients.

7. To attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings.

8. To support the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions for clients.

9. To carry out other clinical and administrative tasks as appropriate to the post holder’s grade.

10. To be up to date with both de-escalation, physical breakaway and PMVA techniques appropriate to the service environment.

11. To provide care equitably to all service users, in an anti-discriminatory approach also promoting equality, diversity and inclusion for service users and their families.

Research

1. To design and implement agreed elements of audit and research projects.

2. To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.

3. To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research in order to promote evidence based clinical practice. This will contribute to the clinical work of Applied Psychologists and other team members.

Communication

1. To liaise with key stakeholders including probation practitioners, substance misuse services and court staff.

2. To write reports that are shared with court staff including probation and the judiciary that highlight the link between the person’s mental health and their offending.

3. To maintain clinical records to a high standard.

4. To develop good relationships with service users, team members and individuals from other services.

Administration

1. To establish and maintain records and statistics concerning the service.

2. To be acquainted with, implement and maintain all relevant Trust and Psychology and Psychological Therapies policies and procedures.

3. To report immediately any incidents affecting staff, users or visitors on health service property in accordance with Trust policies.

Professional Issues

1. To abide by the BPS code of Conduct and Ethics and the Division of Clinical Psychology Professional Practice Guidelines.

2. To maintain confidentiality in line with Trust policy

3. To participate in clinical and professional audit.

4. To participate in and contribute to Quality Assurance initiatives.

5. To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.

General

1. To promote and model the Trust’s values in working with colleagues and others contributing to a compassionate culture that celebrates difference and diversity and supports all staff to flourish

2. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through the active participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s manager.

3. To maintain the highest standards of record keeping and report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.

4. To undertake administrative duties as required.

5. To perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade, which may be required, from time to time, by the Psychology Manager.

6. To participate fully in the Trust’s performance review and personal development planning process on an annual basis.


This advert closes on Sunday 27 Jul 2025

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