The post is based at HMP/YOI Isis where you will work with a team of psychological therapists and multi-professional mental health colleagues to embed psychologically informed care in the prison. You should have interests in working with complex trauma where there is associated risk, including providing direct psychological assessments and interventions and working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts mental health disciplines and with other agencies.
Oxleas Forensic Psychological Therapies department is an unusually large, long established and nationally well-regarded specialty. Psychological therapists are highly valued within the wider directorate and trust and occupy a variety of service-wide leadership roles, including as Responsible Clinicians. Staff in the Forensic Directorate report the highest levels of job satisfaction in a Trust recognised for positive employee feedback. The Psychological Therapies team is warm and friendly, whilst also being dynamic and innovative.
This is a fixed-term post for the period of 1 year. Internal applicants can also be considered for this to be a 1-year secondment.
- Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***
The post holder will work within a busy multi-disciplinary prison mental health team, comprising psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and nursing staff. They will have responsibility for the delivery of a range of psychological interventions to young adults in custody and working in partnership with health and operational colleagues.
Clinical responsibilities will include provision of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based psychological intervention. The postholder will also offer psychological consultation, reflective practice and training to health and operational colleagues to support understanding of the difficulties that young adults in custody may be facing and to support embedding a trauma-informed way of working across the establishment.
The postholder will work autonomously with professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Oxleas policies and procedures.
The postholder will supervise pre-qualified psychological therapists including assistant psychologists, students, and trainees.
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 Taanvi Ramesh Job title: Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist Email address: taanvi.ramesh@nhs.net Telephone number: 020 3356 4385
