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Bexley Adult Mental Health Services



ADAPT TEAM



Trainee Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP) Apprenticeship

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Band 5 (pro rata per Annum) 1.0 WTE (37.5 hours per week) Fixed Term until completion of apprenticeship (18-22 months)



Erith Centre, Bexley, London


We are delighted to request applicants for a new and exciting
Band 5 (paid) masters degree level, apprenticeship
post as a
Clinical Associate in Psychology training.
These highly competitive posts are a new initiative to England and join our expanding range of Oxleas in-house apprenticeships combining work and study. This apprentice programme allows talented psychology graduates (who have completed a degree in Psychology) to access clinical roles where they can be trained on-the-job in psychological interventions. The CAP Apprenticeship is an eighteen-month full-time training divided between work-based experience (up to 4 days per week) and academic teaching and study, which leads to a Masters level qualification. Once qualified, CAPs are able to practice autonomously with appropriate support, working within their scope of practice, under the supervision of a registered clinical psychologist. The broad purpose of the CAP role is to provide high quality, evidence-based psychological interventions.

• The expected start for the apprenticeship programme is 15 January 2025. Applicants must be able to start in post as soon as possible, in order to apply to the University for a place on the MSC CAP training.
  
  

We would like to recruit an enthusiastic individual to work as a CAP within
our Bexley Adult Community Mental Health Service, based within the ADAPT (Anxiety, Depression, Affective Disorders, Personality Disorders and Trauma) Pathway.
The Bexley ADAPT Psychological Therapies Team offers a broad range of evidence based psychological interventions, input and support to adult clients within the community. The successful candidate will join a well-established, friendly multi-disciplinary team, which comprises professionals from psychiatry, nursing, social work, occupational therapy and admin alongside a well-regarded psychological therapies team. There will also be the opportunity to coordinate with colleagues working in inpatient acute mental health, the Primary Care Well Being Hub, Home Treatment Team, Mental Health Liaison Team and specialist services to provide care.

The CAP postholder will work as part of the multi-professional team, alongside clinical psychologists to ensure the delivery of high-quality psychological assessments and interventions, using a range of different models. They will deliver psychologically informed formulations and evidence-based psychological therapy to individuals, groups and families.

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
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Rachel Bonel Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number: 020 3668 9490


For more information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact:



Dr Rachel Bonel, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Bexley ADAPT on

020-3668-9490

or via email at

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Please note that for some occupations we receive a high amount of applications and where this is evident the post will be closed and we will put a limit on the number of applications that we are able to receive.


If you do not hear anything within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted.

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