This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced psychologist to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. Our healthcare teams have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient's future resettlement back into the community. Our Psychological Therapies department is an unusually large, long established and nationally well regarded specialty. Psychologists are highly valued within the trust and occupy a variety of service-wide leadership roles. The Psychological Therapies team is warm and friendly, whilst also being dynamic and innovative., This post is based within the mental health team across three Dorset prisons, HMP's Guys Marsh, Portland and The Verne. You would be providing senior leadership and oversight of a range of psychological therapies across the prison's, ensuring these are safely and effectively delivered by you and your team of specialist psychologists and multi-professional mental health in-reach colleagues. You will contribute actively to service development, including culturally appropriate services for people of differing ethnicity and socio-economic status. You will work closely with director-level colleagues, commissioners and prison governors to design and implement a trauma informed model of care. You will supervise qualified psychologists who will supervise other psychological therapists to apply the NICE stepped care model and lead on trauma informed consultation activity with both operational and clinical staff. There is a focus on attachment, trauma and systemic approaches with expert supervision provided for several evidence-based therapy modalities such as Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Mentalisation based Therapy (MBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation therapy (EMDR). There would be an expectation the post holder would carry a small caseload and carry out psychological assessment and therapy with complex individual and groups of prisoners.

Join us in a stimulating role where we are seeking a dynamic and passionate experienced psychologist who has the skills required to develop a trauma-informed care service across three prisons. The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a keen interest in prison mental health as part of a multi-disciplinary team, consulting on and promoting psychological and trauma informed approaches to understanding and working with this population. Candidates will be qualified psychologists with post-qualification experience. Previous experience in forensic settings would be beneficial.

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