Assistant Clinical Psychologist, ICST

Oxleas is a successful and well respected three-star Foundation Trust. It has a large, well-established psychological therapies department with extensive experience in providing cognitive,behavioural, psycho-dynamic and systemic interventions. We have a thriving learning disabilitypsychology speciality with clinical staff working in three community learning disability teamsacross three boroughs. The CQC rated the Learning Disability Service as good overall andoutstanding for caring. Dr Sandra Baum is head of the service and provides monthly groupsystemic supervision to all psychologists in the service., The post holder will work under the supervision of a clinical psychologist and other qualifiedhealth professionals. They will be part of the ALD psychological therapies service and contributeto the work of the wider multi-disciplinary teams., To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently on a day-to-day basis according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

We are seeking one enthusiastic assistant psychologist to fill a full-time role in the IntensiveCommunity Support Team. The ICST is a small team working intensively with clients who are atrisk of hospital admission or placement breakdown across the three boroughs of Bexley, Bromleyand Greenwich.

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