Highly Specialist Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Rochester; In loco; GBP 80.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist, or Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist to lead psychological provision within a specialist prison healthcare setting. The post spans HMP Rochester and HMP Cookham Wood with collaboration across Kent sites.

The role offers senior clinical leadership, responsibility for developing therapies for complex needs and expertise in trauma-informed, psychologically informed care across the

Competenze

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and clinical consultations.
• Lead the psychological therapies model and its delivery.
• Supervise and support qualified and pre-qualified psychological therapists and lived experience practitioners.

Mansioni

• Provide and oversee highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and clinical consultations.
• Provide clinical leadership and oversight of the psychological therapies model and its delivery.
• Supervise and support qualified and pre-qualified psychological therapists and lived experience practitioners.
• Lead psychological consultation activity and support psychologically informed approaches across the wider multidisciplinary service.
• Maintain a small clinical caseload and/or undertake psychological assessment and therapy with individuals and groups with complex needs.
• Lead on service development, clinical governance, quality improvement, audit and research.
• Help develop services that are accessible, culturally appropriate and responsive to the diverse prison population.
• Build effective relationships with healthcare colleagues, criminal justice partners, primary and secondary care services and third-sector organisations.
• Contribute to workforce planning, recruitment, appraisal, professional development and supervision within psychological therapies.

Conoscenze

Clinical leadership

Supervision

Interventions delivery

Collaborative working

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Are you an experienced Psychologist or Psychological Therapist looking for an opportunity to lead, develop and influence psychological provision within a specialist prison healthcare setting?

We are looking for a Highly Specialist Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist, or Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist to work within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust's Forensic and Offender Healthcare Directorate. The post is based across HMP Rochester and HMP Cookham Wood, with close collaborative working with colleagues at other Kent prison sites.

This is a senior clinical and leadership role offering the opportunity to shape psychological therapies for people with complex emotional needs and forensic histories, while promoting psychologically informed and trauma-informed approaches across the wider service.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Working closely with clinical and operational leads, you will lead the delivery and development of psychological assessment and intervention within prison mental health inreach services.

You Will

• Provide and oversee highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and clinical consultations.
• Provide clinical leadership and oversight of the psychological therapies model and its delivery.
• Supervise and support qualified and pre-qualified psychological therapists and lived experience practitioners.
• Lead psychological consultation activity and support psychologically informed approaches across the wider multidisciplinary service.
• Maintain a small clinical caseload and/or undertake psychological assessment and therapy with individuals and groups with complex needs.
• Lead on service development, clinical governance, quality improvement, audit and research.
• Help develop services that are accessible, culturally appropriate and responsive to the diverse prison population.
• Build effective relationships with healthcare colleagues, criminal justice partners, primary and secondary care services and third-sector organisations.
• Contribute to workforce planning, recruitment, appraisal, professional development and supervision within psychological therapies.

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
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Denny Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07504877653