Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

The post holder will provide skilled and experienced leadership to the Greenwich Home Treatment Team (HTT), overseeing the provision and development of the psychological interventions and wider psychosocial and trauma-informed practice in the service. The post will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to service users of Greenwich HTT and their support networks (including families and carers). To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by other clinical members of the service who provide psychologically-based care and treatment. To provide consultation, reflective practice and incident debriefs to the service and to facilitate team working, psychologically informed practice, trauma-informed care and appropriate treatment pathways to optimise service user journey and experience across service transitions. The post will also involve close organisational liaison with the wider Oxleas mental health system and third sector partners. The post holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/teams. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the teams/service. To contribute to the overall management of the service.

We are seeking to recruit a highly skilled, innovative and experienced Clinical/ Counselling/Forensic Psychologist or CBT Therapist/Psychotherapist to provide clinical and professional leadership to Greenwich Home Treatment Team. The post holder will join the team manager and consultant psychiatrist in providing clinical leadership to the team. They will take a lead role in developing and managing the provision of psychological interventions in the team, including individual and group-based interventions. They will also offer training, consultation, supervision and reflective practice within the service as a whole.

Oxleas has developed an excellent reputation as a place to work. It was listed as one of the The Sunday Times top ten large organisations to work for in 2023, and also won the HSJ Trust of the Year Award in 2023. We are deeply proud of our culturally diverse workforce and our shared values of kindness, fairness and caring., 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