Assistant Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an assistant psychologist with an interest in personality disorder and/or complex care to take a role within the PIPE service at HMP Swaleside. The post will be hosted by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust as part of the LPP. The postholder will work closely with LPP and prison staff to support those more challenging residents within Swaleside. This role may include delivering socially creative and structured sessions, supporting therapies delivery, completing clinical audit and quality assurance initiatives and completing clinical assessment under supervision. The postholder will also benefit from the wider assistant psychologist training programme delivered at the Bracton Centre.

The post will be hosted by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, which has a national reputation for excellence, and offers wide-ranging opportunities for mental health practitioners within its teams.

The postholder will work closely with LPP and prison staff to support those more challenging residents within Swaleside. This role may include delivering socially creative and structured sessions, supporting therapies delivery, completing clinical audit and quality assurance initiatives and completing clinical assessment under supervision. The postholder will also benefit from the wider assistant psychologist training programme delivered at the Bracton Centre.

The post also holds a research component, supporting the service lead with research in the OPD pathway.

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
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the

psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems.
- To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
- To work with other staff in support of multi-disciplinary working and assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of

understanding and care.
- To receive regular clinical and management supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
- To contribute to the training and support of other staff in psychological care and to assist in the design and implementation of service development projects within the service as required.
- To undertake IT responsibilities such as graphs or charts to collate or summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes as well as assisting in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.
- To maintain the highest professional standards in line with policies and procedures.
- To support service research.