Assistant Psychologist

Overview

The post holder will take the position of joining the Psychology team on the acute adult mental health wards in Bromley borough and be providing psychological provision to service users, their families and the wider multi-disciplinary team. Each ward has a minimum 2 day per week psychologist who the post holder will be working closely alongside in delivering the unit treatment programs.

The post is permanent, Monday-Friday 9-5pm, though this can be negotiable as necessary with a possibility of one evening session a week, wherein starting hours would be altered to accommodate.

Main duties of the job. Specific opportunities and roles will involve facilitation of psychologically informed therapeutic groups on the wards including dual diagnosis groups, transdiagnostic psychoeducation groups (such as Hearing voices groups, ACT for psychosis groups and DBT skills groups) as well as associated individual or family psychotherapeutic provision. Individual work may also include neuropsychological assessments. Regular and routine clinical supervision with the unit qualified Psychologists will be provided as well as access to the wider Trust CPD opportunities.

Other roles will include staff training and support and involvement in clinical audit, quality improvement project work and clinical research studies.

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