Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

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Full time
Location: North Woolwich
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Job offered by: NHS
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We have an exciting opportunity for you to join a Top Performing Early Intervention in Psychosis Team in an Award-Winning NHS Trust. Four days a week will be spent with our friendly community mental health team, in the Greenwich Early Intervention in Psychosis Service. The team truly values the role of psychology and it is considered a core intervention in the team. You will be part of an MDT helping the EIP service support the needs of people experiencing a range of psychosis related difficulties and their families. Additionally, you will spend a day a week on one of our wards based at Oxleas House. Main duties of the job

Responsible For: - 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. About us

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 Listen We Care Job responsibilities

To contribute to the provision of psychology therapies service to the Greenwich Early Intervention in Psychosis Team and the Acute service based at Oxleas House. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the EIP Mental Health Service 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 clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients 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 CBTp and Family Interventions for Psychosis. To facilitate groups for clients and carers 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. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including responsibilities within the policies and clinical duties to safeguarding vulnerable adults and children. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. This will require being able to convey this to clients, families and colleagues with a range of understanding and knowledge so will require the ability to be flexible, adaptive and simple but yet retain a sophisticated understanding and approach. To provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team. Person Specification

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist. Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist Willingness to undertake Advanced Training in CBTp if not completed. Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology. Advanced Diploma in CBT (for Psychosis or SMI) HEE approved training in Family Interventions for Psychosis. Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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