Specialist Clinical Psychologist Band 7/ 8a Preceptorship

Job summary

We have an exciting preceptorship development position for either a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist looking for a post with potential career progression, or for an established band 8a Clinical Psychologist to join our friendly community mental health team, at the Bexley Intensive Care Management of Psychosis (ICMP) Team. You will be part of an MDT helping the ICMP service support the needs of people experiencing a range of psychosis related difficulties.

WE WOULD WELCOME APPLICATIONS FROM CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS WHO ARE IN THEIR FINAL YEAR OF DOCTORAL TRAINING, and those who are looking for the opportunity for career development and wish to build the specialist skills and experience in line with the roles set out below.

There will be very close working with the Lead Psychologist within the service, and there will be lots of opportunity for additional support. Following successful completion of a preceptorship programme (formal log of competencies), usually over a period of 18 -36 months, the Band 7 position will lead to a Band 8a. If you are interested in this position or have any questions, we would welcome and encourage you to contact us for an informal discussion and/or to meet the team.

Main duties of the job

As part of the therapy team, you will be providing individual and group interventions, as well as working with families.

You will be supporting the wider MDT with psychological perspectives into individuals and families support and care needs. You will also have the opportunity to develop your supervision skills through supervising Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and Assistant Psychologists.

You will work with people from a range of different backgrounds and ages, and will ideally be passionate about equal opportunities and client-centred care. Working with clients within a secondary care team, you will have an opportunity to develop experience and skills and specialist skills in psychological interventions in working with this client group. You will have the opportunity to train further in NICE concordant interventions for psychosis such as CBTp and FiP, in addition to the option of being involved in our psychosis family therapy service, and accessing training in trauma therapies such as EMDR.

You will hold a clinical case load and be supervised by the ICMP Lead Psychologist. You will also have the opportunity to attend specialist supervision in CBTp, FiP, and other therapy modalities ( ACT, EMDR).

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:

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Job responsibilities

To provide a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychology service to clients of the Intensive Case Management of Psychosis Team.

This includes: providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy with individuals, families, and groups, consulting with families, team colleagues and non-professional carers about psychological models and ideas, and working within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

There is also an expectation for the post holder to develop group and /or systemic and family work in these contexts.

To attend regular team meetings and consultations.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Achieved/ working towards qualification in Clinical Psychology/ BABCP/ Counselling Psychology

Desirable

Additional training relevant to post

NHS Experience

Essential

Experience of working within NHS services

Desirable

CMHT experience

Work Experience

Essential

Experience of working with people with psychosis, bipolar or complex mental health issues

Desirable

Experience of running groups Experience of working with families and carers

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