Overview
To lead on the development and implementation of the Men’s Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) service and provide management oversight and clinical supervision of the team. To oversee and be responsible for quality and performance, including quarterly reporting to commissioners. To have oversight and sign off of court directions.
Responsibilities
* Develop psychological pathways, assessment processes and treatment interventions across all levels of the stepped care model.
* Liaise with other therapists within the mental health team, third sector partner organisations and with other counselling providers to ensure robust referral pathways and appropriate division of cases.
* Provide specialist psychological assessments to those referred to the MHTR service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients and others involved in the clients’ care.
* Formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health and personality problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
About Oxleas and the Service Context
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 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
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