Job summary
- Main area
- Forensics
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 26.25 hours per week (Wednesdays and Thursdays are essential, with some flexibility for the remaining day and a half. Due to the nature of being a small, specialist forensic service, we are seeking a candidate to work on site.)
- Job ref
- 277-7865362-FOR
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- William Morris Centre, Bracton Centre
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £70,396 - £80,837 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Principle Psychologist/Psychological Therapist
Band 8b
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to be the service lead at a small, specialist psychological therapies service at the William Morris Centre. The William Morris Centre is a community psychological service, working with adults who exhibit complex emotional and relational problems that cause harm to others. The William Morris Centre is co-commissioned by the forensic and general adult mental health directorates in Oxleas.
We are seeking a candidate who is passionate about working to reducing violence and sexual harm while improving the lives of service users. This is a service highly valued by the people who use it and we seek candidates who are energised by a senior role that combines clinical practice, psychological leadership skills and operational management.
Main duties of the job
The service lead holds clinical and operational leadership of the service, as well as retaining a clinical caseload to ensure continual development of specialist clinical skills. While located in the forensic directorate, there is a close working relationship with general adult community services in the Trust.
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of a psychological therapies outpatient assessment and intervention service for violence and aggression, including the social inclusion offer and consultations to other services. The role includes responsibilities such as: clinical and risk oversight; managing referrals and timely access to the service; ensuring the service meets the needs of the population we serve and patients are satisfied; reporting on activity and quality; leading service developments; and liaising with internal and external partners and services.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Working closely with professional and operational leads in the forensic and offender healthcare directorate, to be responsible for the delivery of a psychology outpatient assessment and intervention service for violence and aggression.
· To liaise closely with Oxleas’ community adult mental health services to ensure psychological provision is available, when appropriate, to people with emotional, interpersonal and forensic / violence and aggression treatment needs.
· To support the Trust’s ambition to deliver great care, out of hospital, in a timely way.
· Responsible for managing referrals, senior oversight of risk management, managing caseloads and reporting on activity and quality.
· Providing oversight of the clinical model and ensuring adherence to model integrity including throughout assessments and interventions.
· Being the point of contact at the William Morris Centre for Oxleas’ secondary care mental health services, and facilitate movement of clients between those services and WMC (and vice versa) and providing support to clinicians within those services as necessary.
· Developing and overseeing a system for forensic psychology consultations to Oxleas secondary care teams.
· To effectively foster and develop relationships with both internal and external partners in the criminal justice system, primary and secondary care NHS services and non-statutory third sector organisations.
· To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the William Morris Centre population.
· The postholder will be an authentic, compassionate and inspiring leader who acts as a role model and champions the Trust’s vision and values.
· The postholder will build a service where people feel valued, developed and supported and where the Oxleas values are role-modelled
· The postholder will be responsible for enabling all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
· To support the clinical lead in contributing service development, and to attend relevant meetings and clinical forums.
· To initiate, implement and monitor appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of services at the William Morris Centre.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration. (A/I) • Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice–based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher. (A/I/R)
- Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline.
Desirable criteria
- CPD in leadership
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BABCP
Experience
Essential criteria
- Completion of a minimum of four years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience (including 2 years at a highly specialist level) in relevant settings
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in adult mental health or forensic services
- Leadership / service development experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of having worked specialist services for forensics / prisons, mood disorders or personality disorder / complex trauma.
- • Accredited training in structured professional judgement approaches to risk assessment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies and two assessment methodologies.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of process for budgeting, recruitment, HR issues
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Theresa Connolly
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322297175
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