Psychological Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £56,276 - £63,176 pa inc |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Lewisham, SE13 6JP |
| Cwmni: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7405043/277-7405043-FOR |
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This post offers an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist, to work with people on probation with complex personality difficulties who pose a high risk of harm to others. The post is part of the Community OPD Pathway in London, a join enterprise between NHS and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) with the aims of reducing reoffending and improving psychological wellbeing.
The successful applicant will work across the London OPD Housing and Accommodation Support Service (OPD HASS) and the South East London Integrated Community Pathways Service (SE ICPS).
Within HASS the post holder will provide specialist consultation, training, and reflective staff support to staff working in a supported accommodation project for people on the OPD pathway.
The SE ICPS is a team of Psychological Therapists, Clinical Practitioners, and Probation Officers that provides direct and indirect support to people on the OPD Pathway.
In the indirect component of the ICPS work, the post holder will be responsible for providing support to probation practitioners in identifying and managing people on probation who present a high risk of serious offending that is linked to personality difficulties. This will include offering individual and group consultations, joint working, training, staff support, and reflective practice.
In the direct component of the work, the post holder will work directly with people on the pathway who present with the highest level of risk and need, carrying out intake assessments, and developing and overseeing the plans for management and treatment of service users.
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
The post holder will oversee the work of Clinical Practitioners working with the individuals presenting with the highest level of risk and need. The post holder may also be involved in the delivery of enhanced therapeutic interventions (e.g., Mentalisation Based Therapy) and other evidenced based interventions for people with complex trauma and personality difficulties as well as specialist work focussed on offending behaviour.
Within HASS The post holder will collaborate with staff from probation and the third sector organisation in offering assessments for people referred to the residential staff. Work directly with all residents and support staff to understand their needs and develop and implement appropriate support plans. In conjunction with the lead HASS psychological therapist, the post holder will support the professional development of HASS staff through the delivery of an ongoing training program as well as individual and group consultation. They will also support the integration of HASS provision with the wider OPD pathway and probation service including liaison with custodial services and pre-release assessment and engagement of people referred to HASS.
The post holder will utilise research skills in supporting the lead HASS psychological therapist in audit and other research and development activities. They may supervise and direct the work assistant and trainee psychologists as required. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines, policies and procedures of LPP’s services, and overarching objectives of LPP and the OPD Pathway.
This advert closes on Sunday 24 Aug 2025
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