Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist
Job Description
Job summary
This post offers an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist with an interest in working with people with an offending history and complex personality difficulties to take a lead role in implementing the London Pathways Partnership (LPP) strategic plan. The London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a partnership of five NHS Trusts co-delivering Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) services with HMPPS colleagues, across several prisons in the Southeast of England and pan-London in the community.
The OPD Pathway programme provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to the multi-agency professionals working with them. Oxleas is the LPP Lead NHS Trust and will be the host trust for this position.
Main duties of the job
The LPP Strategic Workforce Lead will establish a task and finishgroup to develop a plan to meet the strategic objectives of the LPP steering group. This includes improving diverse recruitment and retention, ensuring all LPP services have an annual training strategy, and a staff wellbeing survey in the context of working with complex service participants in the criminal justice system. The group will evaluate the workforce development workstream, and develop an accompanying guidance document, to include a pathway for forensic and clinical trainee psychologists and a pathway to diversify the race and ethnicity of the LPP workforce to better represent the racial and ethnic distribution of our service participants.
See attached Job Description for a full list of duties.
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:
- We're Kind
- We're
- We Listen
- We Care
Job responsibilities
Management responsibilities
To line manage and supervise psychological therapists, lived experience practitioners and pre-qualified psychological therapists who are directly employed by the London Pathways Partnership, and to liaise with the line managers of those employed in split posts.
To develop service user involvement and lived experience practitioner roles in the service.
To interpret policies and guidance for application in the London Pathways Partnership and be responsible for policy implementation.
Responsibility for quality and performance of the London Pathways Partnerships Workforce Development Group, overseeing completion of quarterly and annual monitoring reports as well as clinical audits, where relevant to the role.
To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the London Pathways Partnerships Workforce Development Group.
To be responsible to the operational lead for workforce planning, including staff engagement, fair recruitment, professional appraisal and staff continuing professional development activities.
To work closely with the administrator, psychological therapists and operational leads to ensure there are efficient administrative systems in place to effectively manage referrals, waiting lists, and recording of clinical activity and outcomes.
To support the budget holder for the service to manage the specialty within the specified budget.
To initiate audit, policy and service development and research activities within the service to ensure the delivery of a reflexive, high quality and financially efficient service with a sound basis in evidence-based treatment and best clinical practice.
To interpret policies and guidance for application in the service and be responsible for policy development and implementation
To initiate, implement and ensure appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of services in the service and in partner services.
To ensure the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
To participate in, or lead when appropriate, Trust and Directorate strategic development and implementation of new initiatives (e.g. national guidelines), through membership of committees and/or working parties.
In partnership with professional and operational leads, to be responsible for service development and expansion, following best practice policy and guidance and local organisational priorities and to lead on service innovation and evaluation.
To be responsible for setting and implementing clinical governance standards within the service and ensure that these are maintained and improved.
To take a lead role in ensuring that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline i.e., HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP.
Essential
Essential
- Considerable experience of working as a clinical or counselling psychologist or psychological therapist, in relevant settings and services, e.g. secondary care adult mental health, acute or crisis services.
Essential
Essential
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
LPP Community Premises
7 Holyrood Street
London
SE1 2EL
