Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

We are looking for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, with substantial experience of and expertise in working with people with complex mental health problems. We have two roles in Bromley, a 0.6 WTE post in Community Mental Health Rehabilitation and Enablement Service (CMHRES) and a 0.5 WTE post in Intensive Case Management for Psychosis West (ICMP West).

• If you are interested in one/both of these posts, please state your preferences in your application. There is flexibility in terms of how these roles might be filled
In this post, you would be working in Bromley CMHRES, which focuses on improving the lives of people predominantly diagnosed with psychosis/bipolar affective disorder. You would have the opportunity to work with a wide spectrum of clients with differing levels of need and severity and at different life stages (excluding first episode psychosis). You would have opportunity to develop skills in delivering a variety of interventions depending on your interests and experience, especially trauma-focused therapies including EMDR, CBT for psychosis and bipolar and third wave approaches including mindfulness, ACT and compassion-focused therapy. There would be the opportunity to support the development of family interventions for psychosis and bipolar locally and the development of therapy skills and knowledge within the team. The role includes working at a consultative level within the team, alongside participating in community team assessments and crisis work., You would be a member of a friendly and supportive team. The team base is close to Beckenham High Street, with easy access to local shops and a park. You would offer a range of psychological interventions to service users on an individual, family and group basis. You would have access to regular individual supervision and the Trust has a good record of providing specialist supervision groups to support Psychological Therapists with areas of complexity and development (e.g. EMDR, CBTp, trauma and psychosis etc.). There are regular psychological therapies training events and the Trust is highly supportive of staff accessing further specialist training such as CBTp, FIp and EMDR.

Working for our organisation 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