Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

We have a fixed term post at Band 8a for a dynamic & creative clinical psychologist working in an innovative community learning disabilities team in Greenwich. You will be working with other clinical psychologists & psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in multi-disciplinary teams. You will have a key leadership & consultation role as a senior psychologist in the team.

The post is based at the Woolwich Centre, Woolwich, but you may also work across the three boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich & Bexley. It is essential that you can travel throughout the Oxleas area, using public transport where necessary.

You will be working in a variety of community settings, with individuals, groups, families & staff teams, providing assessment, support & intervention & applying a range of therapeutic approaches. You will work with other clinical psychologists & psychological therapists, alongside other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team, sharing psychological knowledge & ideas & fostering psychological mindedness. You will have a key leadership & consultation role as a senior psychologist in the teams. You will be supervising clinical psychologists & trainees, assistant practitioners & other psychological therapists.

Job description

We have a thriving learning disability psychology speciality with 27 wte clinical staff working in 3 community learning disability teams across 3 boroughs. Group systemic supervision is provided to all psychologists in the service & individual supervision by experienced colleagues. The psychology speciality is a creative & innovative one, encouraging research & service evaluation, with a strong focus on measuring outcomes:

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent (e.g. counselling psychology), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.

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 with complex needs, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.

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 additional 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: