Assistant Psychologist

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

To support the delivery of the Swaleside Pathways Services which form part of the national Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPDP). These service are delivered by the London Pathways Partnership (LPP) which is a partnership of 5 London based NHS trusts working predominantly with complex and high risk service users in the criminal justice system. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is the lead LPP Trust for this service.
This role will be split between clinical duties within the Swaleside OPDP services and supporting research activity across the service.
This post offers an exciting opportunity for an assistant psychologist with an interest in working with people with offending history and complex personality difficulties. London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) services across several prisons in the Southeast of England and a pan-London Integrated Community Pathways Service (ICPS) in London, alongside HMPPS colleagues.
The OPD Pathway programme provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to the multi agency professionals working with them.
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 support the delivery of the service by delivering socially creative and structured sessions on the service and assisting with the therapies delivery in the Pathways treatment service. There will be opportunities for conducting clinical assessments under supervision, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional, working independently according to a plan agreed with the qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, delivery orders, collection of statistics and development of audit and/or research projects. The post holder will benefit from the wider Assistant Psychologist training programme delivered at the Bracton Centre within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

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