Assistant Psychologist

We are looking for a candidate with experience and/or a real interest and passion for working with older people and with people living with dementia. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and compassionate Assistant Psychologist to join Bromley Older People's Mental Health Service. The post holder will work in our Memory Service Team providing the best possible care and support for people in the borough living with memory difficulties and dementia. The Assistant Psychologist will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist. The role involves providing assessment and psychological interventions to clients and carers. The role will include facilitating workshops and groups, conducting neuropsychological assessments and providing individual therapy for people with cognitive difficulties and their family members. There are opportunities for training, consultation and developing supervision skills. The role will include clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.,

• To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the Bromley Memory Service part of the Older People's Mental Health Service providing psychological assessment, neuropsychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional
• To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic and/or psycho educational workshops and groups.
• Working closely with multidisciplinary team colleagues
• Undertaking audit and service evaluation work.
  
  Previous experience of working with people with mental health problems or dementia . Applicants should have a 2:1 degree in Psychology. Please see the person specification for further details.
  
  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