Principle Clinical/Counselling psychologist/CBT/psychotherapist

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for a kind, motivated and clinically skilled psychologist to join our Home Treatment Team (HTT) in the London Borough of Bexley. We are looking for a psychologist who is able to lead and inspire, and who is wanting to contribute to the development of highly effective clinical teams.
The successful applicant will work closely with the multi-disciplinary HTT to ensure that they are able to provide a range of evidence-based psychosocial interventions for our service users who are in crisis, and their support networks (including families and carers). The role will also involve working collegiately with clinical teams across the trust, service partners (e.g., third sector services), and other statutory services.
We actively encourage applications from current Band 8A psychologists who wish to develop their careers and would like to further develop their skills and leadership.
Oxleas has developed an excellent reputation as a place to work. It was listed as one of the The Sunday Times top ten large organisations to work for in 2023, and also won the HSJ Trust of the Year Award in 2023. We are deeply proud of our culturally diverse workforce and our shared values of kindness, fairness and caring.
Psychological assessment and intervention with service users who present in a state of psychological/ emotional crisis. Individual therapeutic interests and preferences are promoted and will be actively supported with specialist supervision and training if aligned with directorate priorities (specifically trauma-informed care and family/systems working).

Clinical work could involve crisis focused DBT, CBT, family/systemic interventions and trauma-focused, eg EMDR. These would map onto psychotherapeutic pathways in the acute sector and community teams.

• Risk management and care planning with services users and their support

networks.

• Development and supervision of evidence-based psychosocial interventions delivered by the wider clinical team.
• Supervision, consultation, and provision of reflective practice.
• Liaison with system partners (e.g., GPs, community mental health services, voluntary services)
• Work autonomously within clinical and professional guidelines.
• Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

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
As the lead psychologist for the HTT you will provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. We would welcome applications from Psychological Therapists and Psychotherapists (including Systemic Psychotherapists) holding AFT, UKCP, BCP or BACP registrations.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment
and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an
appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing
methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
There is particular emphasis on developing coherent and inclusive interventions and pathways for including family members, carers and networks in supporting service users’ mental health. Similarly mapping onto and promoting trauma-informed care and existent treatment pathways for complex-emotional needs will be central to the post

Please refer the Job description for details