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.

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
  
  

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 Sandra Baum Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: sandra.baum@nhs.net

For more information about this post, please contact Dr Sandra Baum, consultant clinical psychologist or Dr Joel Parker on 0203 871 5680 or sandra.baum@nhs.net or joel.parker2@nhs.net

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We routinely involve service users in our interview process.