Integrated Community Pathway Service Lead

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

The post is a 12 months maternity cover opportunity to provide senior clinical leadership to a the South East London Integrated Community Pathway Service (ICPS). This includes responsibility for the provision of a specialist psychological service to the multi-disciplinary team and to People on Probation screened onto the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and the probation offices responsible for managing their period on licence and risk in the community.
The ICPS is a multidisciplinary, cross agency team working with People on Probation who experience personality difficulties and pose a high risk of harm to others. The ICPS service is comprised of a direct work stream, the Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS) which provides comprehensive and holistic assessment, formulation and treatment informed by best practice and literature.
The ICPS also provides an indirect stream which offers specialist psychology service offering consultation and support to the National Probation Service (London Division), within South East London and more widely across London including in approved premises and in pre-release planning.
The post holder would be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and in line with local policies and procedures, and the department’s objectives, to contribute directly to workforce development through staff consultation and supervision and the provision of training to a range of staff including partner agencies and allied professionals and to utilise research and audit skill for the ongoing evaluation and development of OPD services.
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

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