Consultant Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist
- NHS
- Part Time
- Shaftesbury
- 74290.00 - 85601.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced psychologist to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.
Our healthcare teams 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 patient's future resettlement back into the community. Our Psychological Therapies department is an unusually large, long established and nationally well regarded specialty. Psychologists are highly valued within the trust and occupy a variety of service-wide leadership roles. The Psychological Therapies team is warm and friendly, whilst also being dynamic and innovative.
Join us in a stimulating role where we are seeking a dynamic and passionate experienced psychologist who has the skills required to develop a trauma-informed care service across three prisons.
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a keen interest in prison mental health as part of a multi-disciplinary team, consulting on and promoting psychological and trauma informed approaches to understanding and working with this population. Candidates will be qualified psychologists with post-qualification experience. Previous experience in forensic settings would be beneficial.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties of the job
This post is based within the mental health team across three Dorset prisons, HMP's Guys Marsh, Portland and The Verne. You would be providing senior leadership and oversight of a range of psychological therapies across the prison's, ensuring these are safely and effectively delivered by you and your team of specialist psychologists and multi-professional mental health in-reach colleagues. You will contribute actively to service development, including culturally appropriate services for people of differing ethnicity and socio-economic status. You will work closely with director-level colleagues, commissioners and prison governors to design and implement a trauma informed model of care.
You will supervise qualified psychologists who will supervise other psychological therapists to apply the NICE stepped care model and lead on trauma informed consultation activity with both operational and clinical staff. There is a focus on attachment, trauma and systemic approaches with expert supervision provided for several evidence-based therapy modalities such as Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Mentalisation based Therapy (MBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation therapy (EMDR). There would be an expectation the post holder would carry a small caseload and carry out psychological assessment and therapy with complex individual and groups of prisoners.
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
Job responsibilities
To provide direct psychological care (assessment and intervention) and support the delivery of psychologically informed care by all disciplines within the service.
To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, including taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans with input from clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological therapy interventions with service suers, carers or families of referred clients when required.
To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be soughtfrom:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Additional training in neuropsychology
Experience
Essential
- Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with a relevant client group.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services
- Experience in working in Forensic or Prison services
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the professions of psychological therapies based upon a ...
