Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist

We are seeking to recruit a fixed term maternity cover for a Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist at the William Morris Centre for 0.7 WTE (26.25 hours).
The post holder will be the service lead of the William Morris Centre, holding operational and clinical responsibilities. The William Morris Centre is a community psychological service, working with adults who exhibit complex emotional and relational problems associated with violence and/or sexual harm to others. The service provides psychological assessment and intervention with a social inclusion offer.
Oxleas Forensic Psychological Therapies department is an unusually large, long established and nationally well regarded specialty. Psychological therapists are highly valued within the wider directorate and trust and occupy a variety of service-wide leadership roles. Staff report the highest levels of job satisfaction in a Trust recognised for positive employee feedback. The Psychological Therapies team is warm and friendly, whilst also being dynamic and innovative. There is a focus on attachment, trauma and systemic approaches with expert supervision available for evidence-based therapy modalities such as MBT and EMDR. We offer a unique range of training opportunities and will invest in supporting you to extend your knowledge and expertise.
We welcome secondment opportunities where existing managers agree., + Clinical and operational responsibilities associated with the service.
+ Supervision and management of the service and team.
+ Liaising and reporting to directorate management teams.
+ Provide advice and consultation to referrers.
+ Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures, and the department's objectives.
+ Directly contribute to workforce development through both staff consultation, supervision and the provision of training to a range of staff including partner agencies and allied professionals.
+ Utilise research skills in audit and other research and development activities.
+ Supervise and direct the work of qualified, assistant and trainee psychologists as required.
+ Duty lead, to support and manage any risk issues as they arise.
+ Provide supervision and management to qualified and pre-qualified staff.
+ To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions.
+ To provide specialist consultation to other professionals in health and probation., + To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community.
+ To provide culturally appropriate psychological therapy interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
+ To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
+ To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
+ To undertake psychometric and neuropsychological testing as appropriate, including selecting the appropriate tests, administering and scoring the tests in accordance with the manual, and interpreting the findings in the context of all relevant information.
+ To undertake risk assessment, risk monitoring and risk management for individual clients in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
+ To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory agencies as appropriate.
+ To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities served.
+ Liaison with other relevant services in health and probation.
+ Implement outcome measurement as determined by the local service.
+ Attend and contribute to psychological therapies and directorate meetings and forums.
Please see Job Description for full details of the job.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

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