About this role
Job summary
The Bromley West ADAPT (Anxiety, Depression, Affective, Personality, Trauma) community mental health team are looking to recruit a dedicated and compassionate Assistant Psychologist following the previous post holders progression to doctoral training.
You will work within a highly supportive psychological therapies team who value and utilise a wide range of approaches (e.g. CBT, psychodynamic, systemic, EMDR, CFT), and as part of the MDT who highly value psychological therapies role in the team.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to both individual and group assessments and interventions as well as completing clinically relevant administration.
Main duties of the job
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; contributing to the assessment and formulation of clients' presenting issues and delivering psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
About us
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
Job description Job responsibilities
Key Task and Responsibilities
Clinical:
To contribute towards the assessment of client needs applying psychological theory, self-report measures and rating scales, and observations of clients accessing the psychoeducation group programme within the service To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist. To assist in the coordination and running of psychoeducation groups in the service, as well as any other relevant clinical projects, such as service user involvement groups. To contribute to multidisciplinary discussions regarding client care as agreed with the clinical psychologist providing supervision. To assist in the development of a psychological based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
An honours degree in Psychology (2.1) and entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable
Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
Experience Essential
Paid work with people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities and/or psychological/behavioural problems.
Desirable
oExperience of paid work in direct care provision, particularly in the care group of the specialty of this post.
Skills Essential
High level communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive. Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, careers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance. An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and/or other disabilities. An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to health and social service contexts.
Desirable
Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis. High standard of report writing.
Effort and Environment Essential
Ability to work as part of a team Ability to work autonomously under the supervision of a qualified psychologist. Ability to manage own time and caseload. Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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Employer details Employer name Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address Beckenham Beacon
379 Croydon Road
Beckenham
BR3 3QL
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)