About this role
Job summary
The Principal Clinical Psychologist will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality, specialist clinical psychology service to clients, families and carers across all sectors of care. This includes providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, and offering expert advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other professionals.
The post holder will supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapeutic work undertaken by other psychologists and clinical team members. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and hold responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
The role also includes providing staff training and development, utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development, and contributing to the overall management of the service. The post holder will work as part of multidisciplinary teams with close links to a range of agencies.
Main duties of the job Key Responsibilities
Maintain registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist. Participate in CPD and training to ensure the highest professional standards of practice. Promote best practice in psychology through reflective, evidence-based clinical work. Maintain high standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic records and reporting. Uphold current knowledge of legislation, national guidance and local policies relevant to mental health and the client group. Management Responsibilities Contribute to the development of a high-quality, responsive and accessible service. Manage psychological resources including staff and materials. Oversee the governance of psychological practice within the service. Participate in recruitment processes for psychology staff. Provide day-to-day management for psychological therapy staff within the service. Leadership Provide clinical placements for trainee psychologists and ensure appropriate training and competency development. Deliver CPD, supervision and professional training to qualified and newly qualified psychologists. Provide consultation, training and supervision to multidisciplinary colleagues providing psychologically-based interventions. Contribute to pre- and post-qualification psychology teaching
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 Professional / Governance
Maintain clinical psychology registration and adhere to professional and NHS codes of conduct. Ensure accurate, timely and professional clinical documentation. Comply with relevant Trust policies including confidentiality, risk management, infection control, safeguarding, health & safety, equality and diversity, sustainability and nosmoking policy. Clinical Provide advanced specialist assessments and interventions for older adults in the CMHT and Memory Service. Offer psychological perspectives and formulations to support multidisciplinary understanding and care planning. Manage a caseload with autonomous responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge. Provide expert consultation on risk, safeguarding, diagnosis and formulation. Leadership & Management Support strategic and operational service development. Be responsible for governance of psychological practice and resources. Lead recruitment activities for psychology roles. Manage psychology therapy staff within the service. Provide leadership across multidisciplinary teams and external partners. Training, Teaching & Supervision Provide placements and supervision for trainee psychologists. Deliver training, consultation and supervision to multidisciplinary staff. Contribute to internal and external teaching programmes. Research, Evaluation & Service Development Lead and participate in service audits, evaluations and quality improvement projects. Use research skills to support evidencebased practice. Support and advise staff undertaking research activities. General Responsibilities Participate in appraisal, CPD and mandatory training. Demonstrate Oxleas organisational values (Were Kind, Were Fair, We Listen, We Care). Provide highquality customer care and maintain professionalism.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications Essential
Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist
Desirable
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Leadership or management training Recognised supervision training
Experience Essential
Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with 2 years at a highly specialist level Experience working with a wide range of client groups across the life course and across all care settings (outpatients, community, primary care, inpatient, and residential), while maintaining professionalism in highly emotive, distressing, or abusive situations Experience exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a care coordinator and within a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable
Experience of working in older people's mental health services, including people with dementia and their carers. Experience in neuropsychological assessment with adults with comorbid mental health/psychological needs Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge Essential
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
Desirable
Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (eg. Personality disorders, dual diagnoses, people with medically unexplained symptoms, people with additional disabilities, people with dementia, etc). Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
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).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address Bridgeways
Turpington Lane
Bromley
BR2 8JA
Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)