Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

To provide a psychology service to clients of theCommunity Psychosis Pathway.

You will be experienced in a range of clinical skills with clients with complex mental health issues, including group work, psychological assessments, family interventions, individual therapy, consultation, research and audit.You will be providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy withindividuals, families and groups, at the same time as offering advice and consultationon clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers, working within the overall framework of the team's policies andprocedures.

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation

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:

Registration and qualifications

Essential: - HCPC registered or equivalent

Desirable: - Completion of post qualification training in CBTp or FIP; - Further training in supervision, leadership or research

Work experience

Service Development and Research

Essential: - Experience of audit or service evaluation

Desirable: - Experience of published research or service evaluation