Principal Psychologist - Service Lead for MHTR | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	28 Awst 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£70,396 - £80,837 pa inc, HCAS inc
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	27 Medi 2025
Lleoliad:	Dartford, DA2 7AF
Cwmni:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7437963/277-7437963-FOR

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To lead on the development and implementation of the Men’s Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) service and hold management oversight and clinical supervision of the team

To oversee and be responsible for quality and performance, including quarterly reporting to commissioners.

To have oversight and sign off of court directions.



To develop psychological pathways, assessment processes and treatment interventions across all levels of stepped care model.

· To liaise with other therapists within the mental health team, in third sector partner organisations and with other counselling providers to ensure robust referral pathways and appropriate division of cases.

· To provide specialist psychological assessments to those referred to the MHTR service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients and others involved in the clients’ care.

· To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health and personality problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.

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

· To lead on psychological models of care and on effective and efficient psychology service provision in ongoing sectors of responsibility.

· Where new services or psychology posts are formed, to assist new clinicians in developing and embedding psychological practice and integrating with the wider psychology service.

· To contribute to thinking and writing for tender documents for new contracts; specifically in relation to designing psychological and mental health service provision but also in relation to overall service design.

· To ensure psychological services are subject to appropriate governance processes. That they provide activity and outcome data to commissioners as appropriate for contract monitoring and service evaluation.

· To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

· To identify and to advise service managers on those aspects of the service where psychological or organisation matters need addressing.

· To have oversight of the caseloads and workloads of all in psychology team.

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