Principal Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist​/Psychological Therapist

Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist
• London, United Kingdom Job summary

This post offers an exciting opportunity for a Principal Psychological Therapist with an interest in working with people with an offending history and complex personality difficulties to take a lead role in implementing the London Pathways Partnership (LPP) strategic plan. The London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a partnership of five NHS Trusts co-delivering Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) services with HMPPS colleagues, across several prisons in the Southeast of England and pan-London in the community.

The OPD Pathway programme provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to the multi-agency professionals working with them. Oxleas is the LPP Lead NHS Trust and will be the host trust for this position.

The LPP Strategic Workforce Lead will implement a pre-existing workforce plan to meet the strategic objectives of the LPP steering group. This includes improving diverse recruitment and retention, ensuring all LPP services have an annual training strategy, and a staff wellbeing survey in the context of working with complex service participants in the criminal justice system. The postholder will evaluate the implementation of the strategic workforce plan.

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
• We Listen
• We Care

To line manage and supervise psychological therapists, lived experience practitioners and pre-qualified psychological therapists who are directly employed by the London Pathways Partnership, and to liaise with the line managers of those employed in split posts. To develop service user involvement and lived experience practitioner roles in the service. To interpret policies and guidance for application in the London Pathways Partnership and be responsible for policy implementation.

Responsibility for quality and performance of the London Pathways Partnerships Workforce Development Group, overseeing completion of quarterly and annual monitoring reports as well as clinical audits, where relevant to the role. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the London Pathways Partnerships Workforce Development Group. To be responsible to the operational lead for…