Psychological Therapist inQueenborough inQueenborough PUBLISHED
TUE 7 JAN 2025
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Competitive Salary, The position offers a salary range of £55,755-£62,504, which is attractive and commensurate with experience.
Recognition as a Preferred Employer, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023, indicating a positive work environment.
Impactful Work, The role involves providing psychological therapy to individuals within the prison system, allowing the therapist to make a meaningful difference in the lives of complex individuals.
Professional Development, Opportunities for supervision, teaching, and training enhance personal and professional growth.
Diverse Clinical Experience, The position involves working with a wide range of clinical cases, which broadens experience and skills in different areas of psychological therapy.
Supportive Work Culture, The organization's high staff experience ratings reflect a supportive and collaborative work environment, fostering job satisfaction.
The role of a Psychological Therapist at HMP Elmley in Queenborough involves providing specialized psychological therapy and assessments for prisoners within the Integrated Mental Health Teams. The position, which is part-time (30 hours per week) with a salary range of AFC Band 8a £55,755-£62,504, requires the therapist to manage a caseload, supervise qualified and trainee psychologists, and implement the NICE stepped care model. The therapist will undertake psychometric assessments, plan treatment interventions, and collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure comprehensive care.
Candidates must hold an entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy and have at least two years of post-doctoral supervised experience. Essential skills include the ability to administer complex psychological assessments, deliver effective interventions, and communicate sensitive information clearly. Registration with a relevant professional body is required, alongside evidence of ongoing professional development.
Candidates must hold an entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy and have at least two years of post-doctoral supervised experience. Essential skills include the ability to administer complex psychological assessments, deliver effective interventions, and communicate sensitive information clearly. Registration with a relevant professional body is required, alongside evidence of ongoing professional development.
Clinical Forensic Counselling Psychologist / Psychological Therapist
Location: Isle of Sheppey HMP Elmley
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Part time, 30 hours per week
Salary: AFC Band 8a £55,755-£62,504 including RRP
At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.
Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.
Overview Of The Post
The current post is based within the Integrated Mental Health Teams in HMP Elmley Prison. Core responsibilities will include supervising qualified psychologists, trainees and assistant psychologists, applying the NICE stepped care model and leading on consultation activity with both operational and clinical staff. There would also be an expectation the post holder would carry a case load and carry out psychological assessment and therapy with complex individual and groups of prisoners.
What will you be doing?
This role will involve clinical and client care, policy and service development, management and supervision, teaching and training, record-keeping, research and development amongst many other factors. The responsibilities listed below are not exhaustive.
To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, including taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans with input from clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological therapy interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
To undertake psychometric and neuropsychological testing as appropriate, including selecting the appropriate tests, administering and scoring the tests in accordance with the manual, and interpreting the findings in the context of all relevant information.
What do you need?
Essential
Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration).
Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher.
Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP.
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional body.
Experience
Essential
Completion of a minimum of two years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience.
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with the full range of clinical severity under supervision.
Post-qualification of working with and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Ability to administer, score and interpret psychometric and neuropsychological tests with appropriate training and supervision.
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.
What next?
If this is a role youre interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.
Interested? Click apply now!
Location: Isle of Sheppey HMP Elmley
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Part time, 30 hours per week
Salary: AFC Band 8a £55,755-£62,504 including RRP
At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.
Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.
Overview Of The Post
The current post is based within the Integrated Mental Health Teams in HMP Elmley Prison. Core responsibilities will include supervising qualified psychologists, trainees and assistant psychologists, applying the NICE stepped care model and leading on consultation activity with both operational and clinical staff. There would also be an expectation the post holder would carry a case load and carry out psychological assessment and therapy with complex individual and groups of prisoners.
What will you be doing?
This role will involve clinical and client care, policy and service development, management and supervision, teaching and training, record-keeping, research and development amongst many other factors. The responsibilities listed below are not exhaustive.
To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, including taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans with input from clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological therapy interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
To undertake psychometric and neuropsychological testing as appropriate, including selecting the appropriate tests, administering and scoring the tests in accordance with the manual, and interpreting the findings in the context of all relevant information.
What do you need?
Essential
Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration).
Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher.
Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP.
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional body.
Experience
Essential
Completion of a minimum of two years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience.
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with the full range of clinical severity under supervision.
Post-qualification of working with and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Ability to administer, score and interpret psychometric and neuropsychological tests with appropriate training and supervision.
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.
What next?
If this is a role youre interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.
Interested? Click apply now!
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