The Care Home Team is a psychology led service to support care homes Bromley in providing the best possible care and support for older adults and their families residing in care homes who are experiencing behavioural and psychological symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) and severe mental illness (SMI). The Assistant Psychologist will work as part of a small multi-disciplinary team under the supervision of the clinical psychologist. As a member of the Care Home Team, you will be providing training and on-going support to nurses and carers in residential and nursing homes across Bromley. The training and support focuses upon BPSD and severe mental illness (SMI) and promotes non-drug person centred ways of understanding and delivering care. The team will manage referrals, complete specialist assessments and offer time limited inventions to individual care homes to reduce levels BPSD, reduce the use of anti-psychotic medications and admissions to hospital. This will require you to provide case management to individual clients as well as offer psychological input as part of the MDT to other clients.
Responsibilities
* To undertake psychological assessments of clients applying psychological theory, including: neuropsychological tests; risk assessment; self-report measures; rating scales; direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care, under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist.
* To develop formulations and deliver therapeutic interventions involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client's problems as part of a care plan, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
* To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic and/or psycho educational groups, training or clinical projects.
* To work with other staff to assess or support service users in care homes and other community settings and contribute to multi-disciplinary discussions or care guidelines as agreed with the clinical psychologist providing supervision.
* To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
About Oxleas
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:
Our Values
* We’re Kind
* We’re
* We Listen
* We Care
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