Assistant Clinical Psychologist

Oxleas is a successful and well respected three-star Foundation Trust. It has a large, well-established psychological therapies department with extensive experience in providing cognitive, behavioural, psycho-dynamic and systemic interventions. We have a thriving learning disability psychology speciality with seventeen clinical staff working in three community learning disability teams across three boroughs. The CQC rated the Learning Disability Service as good overall and outstanding for caring. Dr Sandra Baum is head of the service and provides monthly group systemic supervision to all psychologists in the service.

We are seeking enthusiastic assistant psychologists to fill a full-time role in the Community Learning Disabilities Teams (CLDT) in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich and in the Intensive Community Support Team. The ICST is a small team working intensively with clients who are at risk of hospital admission or placement breakdown across the three boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

The post-holders will contribute towards the assessment of clients with challenging behaviour and mental health difficulties, assist with drawing up intervention plans, training, individual work and monitoring of behaviours and symptoms. As a community-based post, the ability to travel independently between locations throughout Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust without unnecessary delays is essential.

The post-holders will also assist in a range of other tasks including: clinically related administration; data collection; audits and service evaluation projects; scoring of psychometric tests and questionnaires; and the development of accessible self-help/educational resources for clients.

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
- We Listen
- We Care

JOB SUMMARY

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently on a day-to-day basis according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

KEY RESULT AREAS

**Clinical**:
1. To develop formulations and deliver therapeutic interventions involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems as part of a care plan, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.

1. To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic and/or psycho educational groups or clinical projects.

1. To work with other staff to assess or support service users in community or inpatient settings and contribute to multi-disciplinary discussions or care guidelines as agreed with the clinical psychologist providing supervision.

1. To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.

IT responsibilities (clinical)
1. To create graphs or charts to collate or summarise data.
2. To assist in producing visual material or user friendly information for interventions with clients.
3. To update the RIO and/or any other patient records database in relation to contact with clients.

Teaching, training and supervision
1. In common with all clinical psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in a