• Job Description

  Req#: C9277-26-0314?language=en&page=268&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  This is an exciting opportunity to be the service lead at a small, specialist psychological therapies service at the William Morris Centre. The William Morris Centre is a community psychological service, working with adults who exhibit complex emotional and relational problems that cause harm to others. The William Morris Centre is co-commissioned by the forensic and general adult mental health directorates in Oxleas.

  We are seeking a candidate who is passionate about working to reducing violence and sexual harm while improving the lives of service users. This is a servicehighly valued by the people who use it and we seek candidates who are energised by a senior role that combines clinical practice, psychological leadership skills and operational management.

  Main duties of the job

  The service lead holds clinical and operational leadership of the service, as well as retaining a clinical caseload to ensure continual development of specialist clinical skills. While located in the forensic directorate, there is a close working relationship with general adult community services in the Trust.

  The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of a psychological therapies outpatient assessment and intervention service for violence and aggression, including the social inclusion offer and consultations to other services. The role includes responsibilities such as: clinical and risk oversight; managing referrals and timely access to the service; ensuring the service meets the needs of the population we serve and patients are satisfied; reporting on activity and quality; leading service developments; and liaising with internal and external partners and services.

  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

  Details

  Date posted

  18 March 2026

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8b

  Salary

  £70,396 to £80,837 a year pa pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  277-7865362-FOR

  Job locations

  William Morris Centre, Bracton Centre

  Bracton Lane

  Dartford

  DA2 7AF

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Working closely with professional and operational leads in the forensic and offender healthcare directorate, to be responsible for the delivery of a psychology outpatient assessment and intervention service for violence and aggression.

  To liaise closely with Oxleas community adult mental health services to ensure psychological provision is available, when appropriate, to people with emotional, interpersonal and forensic / violence and aggression treatment needs.

  To support the Trusts ambition to deliver great care, out of hospital, in a timely way.

  Responsible for managing referrals, senior oversight of risk management, managing caseloads and reporting on activity and quality.

  Providing oversight of the clinical model and ensuring adherence to model integrity including throughout assessments and interventions.

  Being the point of contact at the William Morris Centre for Oxleas secondary care mental health services, and facilitate movement of clients between those services and WMC (and vice versa) and providing support to clinicians within those services as necessary.

  Developing and overseeing a system for forensic psychology consultations to Oxleas secondary care teams.

  To effectively foster and develop relationships with both internal and external partners in the criminal justice system, primary and secondary care NHS services and non-statutory third sector organisations.

  To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the William Morris Centre population.

  The postholder will be an authentic, compassionate and inspiring leader who acts as a role model and champions the Trusts vision and values.

  The postholder will build a service where people feel valued, developed and supported and where the Oxleas values are role-modelled

  The postholder will be responsible for enabling all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

  To support the clinical lead in contributing service development, and to attend relevant meetings and clinical forums.

  To initiate, implement and monitor appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of services at the William Morris Centre.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Working closely with professional and operational leads in the forensic and offender healthcare directorate, to be responsible for the delivery of a psychology outpatient assessment and intervention service for violence and aggression.

  To liaise closely with Oxleas community adult mental health services to ensure psychological provision is available, when appropriate, to people with emotional, interpersonal and forensic / violence and aggression treatment needs.

  To support the Trusts ambition to deliver great care, out of hospital, in a timely way.

  Responsible for managing referrals, senior oversight of risk management, managing caseloads and reporting on activity and quality.

  Providing oversight of the clinical model and ensuring adherence to model integrity including throughout assessments and interventions.

  Being the point of contact at the William Morris Centre for Oxleas secondary care mental health services, and facilitate movement of clients between those services and WMC (and vice versa) and providing support to clinicians within those services as necessary.

  Developing and overseeing a system for forensic psychology consultations to Oxleas secondary care teams.

  To effectively foster and develop relationships with both internal and external partners in the criminal justice system, primary and secondary care NHS services and non-statutory third sector organisations.

  To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the William Morris Centre population.

  The postholder will be an authentic, compassionate and inspiring leader who acts as a role model and champions the Trusts vision and values.

  The postholder will build a service where people feel valued, developed and supported and where the Oxleas values are role-modelled

  The postholder will be responsible for enabling all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

  To support the clinical lead in contributing service development, and to attend relevant meetings and clinical forums.

  To initiate, implement and monitor appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of services at the William Morris Centre.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration. (A/I) oAdditional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher. (A/I/R)
  • Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline.

  Desirable

  • CPD in leadership

  Professional Registration

  Essential

  • Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BABCP

  Experience

  Essential

  • Completion of a minimum of four years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience (including 2 years at a highly specialist level) in relevant settings
  • Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in adult mental health or forensic services
  • Leadership / service development experience

  Desirable

  • Experience of having worked specialist services for forensics / prisons, mood disorders or personality disorder / complex trauma.
  • oAccredited training in structured professional judgement approaches to risk assessment

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies and two assessment methodologies.

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of process for budgeting, recruitment, HR issues

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration. (A/I) oAdditional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher. (A/I/R)
  • Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline.

  Desirable

  • CPD in leadership

  Professional Registration

  Essential

  • Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BABCP

  Experience

  Essential

  • Completion of a minimum of four years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience (including 2 years at a highly specialist level) in relevant settings
  • Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in adult mental health or forensic services
  • Leadership / service development experience

  Desirable

  • Experience of having worked specialist services for forensics / prisons, mood disorders or personality disorder / complex trauma.
  • oAccredited training in structured professional judgement approaches to risk assessment

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies and two assessment methodologies.

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of process for budgeting, recruitment, HR issues

  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).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  William Morris Centre, Bracton Centre

  Bracton Lane

  Dartford

  DA2 7AF

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  William Morris Centre, Bracton Centre

  Bracton Lane

  Dartford

  DA2 7AF

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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