Specialist Psychological Therapist (Clin/Foren Psych./Couns/Other)

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

The Swaleside Pathways team is a warm & welcoming team in an exciting, award winning service. We offer excellent opportunities for engaging in fascinating clinical work as well as excellent training, accreditation and career development opportunities.
We work jointly with operational colleagues in HMP Swaleside with male high risk offenders who screen into the OPD pathway (Offender ‘Personality disorder’). The service aims to assess, understand and provide therapeutic intervention for men presenting with complex and challenging difficulties. We achieved the 2023 Health Service Journal Award for our work on Diversity, our wing has achieved ‘Enabling Environment’ status and we are working towards the ‘Trauma Informed’ One Small Thing Award. There is active service user involvement and a commitment to fairness and equality.
This is an exciting opportunity for a clinical, forensic psychologist, or other psychological therapist who is interested in understanding and working with complexity and wishes to further develop their clinical skills in therapeutic approaches. All recruits will receive training, supervision and support to gain accreditation in specific therapeutic domains (Schema/ MBT/ EMDR/ other) and to develop their practice.
The post holder will be part of the huge Oxleas Forensic Psychological Therapies Team which offers regular excellent opportunities for training, peer supervision, skill development, networking and career progression.
To provide a qualified specialist psychological service to complex offenders who screen into the OPD Pathway services in HMP Swaleside, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on offender psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously with professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Oxleas policies and procedures.
Specifically, to work alongside prison, probation and psychology colleagues in the provision of OPD services within HMP Swaleside, as funded by Dept of Health and Ministry of Justice. To include assessments and formulation, therapeutic interventions, joint-working with prison staff, case management, advice, consultation and training. Responsibility for collaborating with an evaluation of the service.
To specialise in a therapy area and work towards gaining accreditation in that area.
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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