Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
We are currently expanding recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join our friendly team at HMP Portland.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well‑being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients’ future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our mental health team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward‑thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
As an Assistant Psychologist at HMP Portland you will be supporting and enhancing the professional psychological care of offenders within the service. This will include; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures and to assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching.
Specifically, you will provide psychological therapy services to service users residing in HMP Portland. The assistant psychologist will be part of the integrated mental health team within the prisons, which provide a range of psychological services from self‑help literature to individual and group therapies. The integrated mental health team work within a trauma informed care model which includes supporting prison colleagues by providing teaching, training and consultation.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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.
Our wider 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.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England.
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kelly Southgate
Job title: Psychologist
Email address: kelly.southgate@nhs.net
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