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Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist - Bexley Pain Psychology Service

We are pleased to advertise an exciting opportunity for a Practitioner Psychologist wanting to develop specialist skills and experience in a supportive Multidisciplinary environment. We will support you to develop as a clinician, with specialist supervision and training opportunities and as a clinical leader, through management and clinical supervision, and access to training and development opportunities within and outside of the Trust.

Our service provides holistic and compassionate interventions to people with Chronic Pain, working as a team with our multidisciplinary colleagues. Third wave CBT therapies (ACT/CFT/Mindfulness) are at the heart of our approach. The successful postholder will be involved in our RESTORE group pain management programme, as well as individual therapy, and a range of other activities including teaching and consultation, service development and evaluation. We have strong links with the Salomans Clinical Psychology training programme, and supervision of trainees forms part of this post.

We support flexible working, and are willing to consider applications for part-time (30 hours or over) or full time work in this post.

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This role is based at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, with on-site parking, as well as clinics running in Erith Medical Centre.  

The Psychology service leads the provision of the interdisciplinary group Pain Management Programme RESTORE in addition to providing individual treatment for clients and carers where appropriate. We are looking for a candidate who is enthusiastic regarding the role of psychology in physical health and has an active and committed approach to innovative service provision. There are exciting opportunities for development of various virtual and in-person group therapies, fully supported by the service lead who is committed to staff development. The established service focuses on third wave cognitive therapies, thus candidates with further training in Mindfulness therapies and ACT / CFT are encouraged. 

The role is suitable for a band 7 psychologist wanting to develop their competencies in leadership to move to a band 8a position, and this will be fully supported by supervision and training within the team. 

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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