Description
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated Psychological Therapist for a whole-time (1.0 WTE) fixed term post (9 months, maternity cover) in our Forensic Community Service (FCS).
The role will be community-based, improving the lives of adult service users as they move from secure hospital care into the community, including the Tilt service, a hostel for men with significant mental health needs and forensic risks.
You will play a crucial role in the multi-professional approach to working with service users who have severe mental health and interpersonal issues, often co-occurring with substance dependency or neurodevelopmental disorders, all of whom present a risk that warrants support from forensic services.
Travel between the three Oxleas boroughs - Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich - is essential.
Main duties of the job
This is a clinically focused role. You will offer direct clinical assessment and interventions in complex cases, including individual, group, and family work. In addition, you will provide support to the system around the service user, offering consultation and reflective practice to other professionals, and delivering staff training to clinical and non-clinical staff. There may also be opportunities to supervise trainees, to undertake research, and lead initiatives including how we collaborate with families and carers.
Job responsibilities
You will be the only psychological therapist in the FCS team but will have links to other forensic psychological therapies outpatient services, including receiving clinical supervision from a psychologist in the Forensic Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (FIND) community team. You will also join monthly psychological therapies department meetings.
The Forensic Psychological Therapies department provides a breadth of professional opportunities across community, prison and hospital settings and opportunities for research and career progression through ongoing professional development. The post holder will be encouraged to consolidate and further develop their skills and clinical interests in a friendly and supportive multi-professional and multi-agency context. There is access to a network of specialist psychological supervision groups across the forensic directorate.
Person Specification
- Qualifications: Doctorate or MSc combined with PG Diploma
- Registration: Registered with professional regulatory body e.g., HCPC, BABCP, UKCP
- Experience: Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies and two assessment methodologies.
- Skills: Skills in complex methods of psychological assessment