About this role
Job summary
We are seeking aqualified clinical psychologist to work across the Bexley Older People's Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Bexley Memory Service to provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments, and individual and group-based psychological interventions to our client group and their carers.
This two-day a week post is based at the Bexleyheath Centre and involves working alongside colleagues in the well-established multidisciplinary teams, the CMHT recently being awarded as Best Team in Oxleas.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment, formulation, and interventions to clients and their carers both individually and in groups
To offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and non-professional carers
Tohave management and supervision responsibilities of trainees and junior members of the team
To undertake research and evaluation of the service
To work as a part of the multi-disciplinary teams which have close links with a wide range of agencies
The post holder will also be a member of the Older People's Mental Health Psychological Therapies teams and the Directorate Psychological Therapy teams, attending and contributing to meetings, CPD and wider developments and tasks pertaining to Psychological Therapies.
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
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS. HCPC registration
Desirable
Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience Essential
Experience of working in older people's mental health services, including with people with dementia and their carers Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient, and assessment and intervention with patients with a wide variety of neurological deficits.
Desirable
Experience of facilitating psychoeducation, skills-based and/or therapeutic groups
Skills Essential
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, dementia etc).
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 Bexleyheath Centre
1-3 Emerton Close
Bexleyheath
DA6 8DW
Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)