Assistant Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

To support the delivery of the Swaleside Pathways Services which form part of the national Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPDP). These service are delivered by the London Pathways Partnership (LPP) which is a partnership of 5 London based NHS trusts working predominantly with complex and high risk service users in the criminal justice system. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is the lead LPP Trust for this service.

Main duties of the job

This role will be split between clinical duties within the Swaleside OPDP services and supporting research activity across the service.

This post offers an exciting opportunity for an assistant psychologist with an interest in working with people with offending history and complex personality difficulties. London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) services across several prisons in the Southeast of England and a pan-London Integrated Community Pathways Service (ICPS) in London, alongside HMPPS colleagues.

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.

About us

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

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Prior experience working in a mental health / social care setting

Desirable

  • Working with forensic service users

Experience

Essential

  • Prior research experience at BSc level

Desirable

  • Prior research experience to MSc level

Skills

Essential

  • Good understanding of research methodology and statistics

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 08 November 2024

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