Job summary
- Main area
- Forensics
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (n/a)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-7119298-FOR
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Swaleside
- Town
- Eastchurch
- Salary
- £28,530 - £31,114 pa inc, RRP inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Assistant Psychologists with an interest in personality disorder and/or complex care to take a role within the PIPE service at HMP Swaleside. The post will be hosted by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust as part of the LPP. The postholders will work closely with LPP and prison staff to support those more challenging residents within Swaleside. This role may include delivering socially creative and structured sessions, supporting therapies delivery, completing clinical audit and quality assurance initiatives and completing clinical assessment under supervision. The postholders will also benefit from the wider assistant psychologist training programme delivered at the Bracton Centre.
The post will be hosted by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, which has a national reputation for excellence, and offers wide-ranging opportunities for mental health practitioners within its teams.
Main duties of the job
The postholders will work closely with LPP and prison staff to support those more challenging residents within HMP Swaleside. This role may include delivering socially creative and structured sessions, supporting therapies delivery, completing clinical audit and quality assurance initiatives and completing clinical assessment under supervision. The postholders will also benefit from the wider assistant psychologist training programme delivered at the Bracton Centre.
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
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the
psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems. - To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
- To work with other staff in support of multi-disciplinary working and assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of
understanding and care. - To receive regular clinical and management supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
- To contribute to the training and support of other staff in psychological care and to assist in the design and implementation of service development projects within the service as required.
- To undertake IT responsibilities such as graphs or charts to collate or summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes as well as assisting in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.
- To maintain the highest professional standards in line with policies and procedures.
- To support service research.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualifications
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience
Effort and environment
Essential criteria
- Mental effort and emotional effort
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to use supervision appropriately
Desirable criteria
- Driving license and access to a car
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Varma
- Job title
- Deputy PIPE Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01795804183
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