Job overview

We are seeking an experienced practitioner to deliver and co-ordinate reflective practice in a forensic inpatient setting. This is a highly specialist area of reflective practice, where the postholder will utilise their existing knowledge and skills of psychoanalytic approaches, post-qualification training in reflective practice experience of forensic issues. This two day a week role is entirely focussed on working with staff teams for the eight forensic inpatient wards, with view to shaping staff teams’ understandings of complex, risky and challenging patient presentations and behaviours in order to enhance staff's resilience, therapeutic relationships with their patients and relational security practices. 

The role is primarily based at the Bracton Centre (DA2 7AF) and sessions will be delivered there and at Memorial Hospital (SE18 3RG).

Main duties of the job

• Strategic approach to lead and embed the systemic provision of reflective practice in the forensic service.
• To deliver highly specialised reflective practice to the inpatient forensic service, personally providing highly specialist clinical input guided by experience and knowledge of the psychodynamics of offending behaviours and healthcare organisations.
• To liaise with senior staff of all disciplines across the organisation to ensure visibility of the service, and to promote a culture of openness and connection between wards and senior leaders.
• Lead on ensuring access to reflective practice reaches the most marginalised and at-risk staff groups, including enabling staff from diverse backgrounds to access and use reflective practice, to create a create a psychologically safe environment. 
• To be responsible to the forensic psychological therapies professional lead.
• To manage regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Lead on reporting on performance and outcomes to the Directorate’s senior management team.
• To lead research, service evaluation, audit, research and service or policy development.
• Provide training, supervision and advice as necessary.

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