Job Description

To provide a highly-specialist psychology service to adult mental health clients of Shrewsbury and Maryon wards. Providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary team which has close links with a wide range of agencies.



To maintain registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist or with the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapists.



To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.



To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.



To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, Health Professions Council and Trust policies and procedures.



To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.



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



Management responsibilities

Responsible for:

Assistant Psychologists, Graduate Psychologists.



Trainee clinical psychologists



Teaching, training and supervision of members of other disciplines on psychological theory & practice and psychosocial interventions



To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees and qualified clinical psychologists.

To contribute to the overall management and functioning of the service.

To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organizational matters need addressing.

To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/service's policies and procedures.

Involvement in HR policies.

Involvement in recruitment.



Leadership

Accountable to:

Operationally - Psychology Lead/ Mental Health Team Manager



Professional Lead



Responsible for the development of more junior psychological therapy staff.



Participate in service development.



To contribute to the provision of a psychological therapies service to the Greenwich Acute Inpatient wards.



To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to Acute Inpatient wards based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological 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, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven 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 deliver NICE approved psychological therapies .



To facilitate groups for clients and carers.