Clinical Psychologist

We have a one-year fixed term Band 7 post for a dynamic and creative clinical psychologist working in two innovative community learning disabilities teams (CLDT) -in the Bromley CLDT (0.4wte) and the Bexley CLDT (0.6wte). You would be working with other clinical psychologists and psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary teams.

Bromley and Bexley CLDTs are both based at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and share the same offices. You may also work across the three boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Bexley. It is essential that you can travel throughout the Oxleas area, using public transport where necessary.

We have a thriving learning disability psychology speciality with 27 wte clinical staff working in three community learning disability teams across three boroughs. Group systemic supervision is provided to all psychologists in the service and individual supervision by experienced colleagues. The psychology speciality is a creative and innovative one, encouraging research and service evaluation, with a strong focus on measuring outcomes.

You would be working with other clinical psychologists and psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team, sharing psychological knowledge and ideas and fostering psychological mindedness.

For more information about this post, please contact Dr Sandra Baum, consultant clinical psychologist on 0203 871 5680 or sandra.baum@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

To provide a clinical psychology service to clients of the team providing specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment. Supervising assistant psychologists and offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.

Working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures, utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Responsible for keeping agreed information that allows an evaluation of the service offered/provided.

Expected to contribute to the development of the service. Including the routine collection, review and feedback of outcome data, ensuring that activity targets are adhered to.

NB Although the postholder will be based in the Bromley and Bexley CLDTs, they will work with service users in Oxleas Learning Disability Directorate, who may originate from Bexley,

Bromley or Greenwich. They will also be doing project work which relates to service users from any of these boroughs. The post holder may therefore be based within the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley or Greenwich. This may need to be varied in discussion with manager.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• Registration with HCPC

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity

Desirable

• Experience of working within a neurodevelopmental team and/or an ASD diagnostic pathway

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• 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

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with neurodevelopmental disabilities etc)

About the employer

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: