Psychological TherapistinQueenboroughinQueenboroughPUBLISHED TUE 7 JAN 2025

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?

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