Assistant Psychologist

Assistant Psychologist, Band 4
Permanent, full time - 37.5 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to join one of our multi-disciplinary teams in Adult mental Health secondary care. The Bromley ADAPT-West team is based in Beckenham and provides the non-psychosis pathway serving the population presenting with Anxiety, Depression, Affective issues, Personality issues and Trauma (ADAPT). There is a sister service on the East of the borough in Bromley.

The post holder will join the ADAPT-W multi-disciplinary team which has an established and embedded psychological therapies provision within the service. The successful applicant will work closely with the psychological therapies team, which is comprised of a number of clinical and counselling psychologists, art psychotherapists and doctorate trainee psychologists.

A large component of the post will focus on the support and co-facilitation of a newly developed DBT and SCM program for the service. Past experience of delivering DBT, SCM or equivalent psychoeducational groups in a clinical setting will be desirable.

Opportunities will also arise to observe and co-run psychological assessments, including neuropsychological or psychometric test administration. There will also be opportunities to join the local systemic family consultation service as well as other clinical observational, co-working or brief intervention initiatives including trauma stabilisation approaches. This will be supported by regular clinical supervision with a member of the qualified psychological therapies team.

Other tasks may include clinical information gathering liaison and analysis to inform a multi-disciplinary formulation, research & audit and delivery of specific evidence based psychosocial interventions within the scope of postgraduate qualification. Oxleas has a wider network of Assistant Psychology positions, including a monthly CPD program for pre-qualification interests.

Oxleas - About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. 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 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, 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

To be supporting group programs provided by psychological therapy and the wider team - including DBT Skills, SCM, multi-family orientation groups and trauma stabilisation approaches. Support of waiting list monitoring and waiting list check-ins will also be a standardised part of the role, alongside family and individual psychological work.