High Intensity Therapist - HMP Huntercombe

Oxford Health NHS Trust

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Job summary

Are you a registered Psychological Therapist looking for a rewarding and challenging opportunity within forensic services?

We are recruiting for a High Intensity Therapist at HMP Huntercombe near Henley. This is a male foreign national Category C prison, providing a diverse and unique patient group for you to work with. You'll be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing therapeutic interventions, supporting patients at Step 3, offering face-to-face assessment and treatment sessions, and facilitating group therapy sessions.

You will work as part of the the Integrated Mental Health Team and you'll have the opportunity to actively participate in different projects and workstreams. As a specialist therapist you'll provide multilevel clinical and forensic services to help understand, prevent and ameliorate psychological distress and disorder, improving the mental health and well-being of service users.

We offer supervision from skilled managers, with the opportunity tobecome a supervisor yourself and we provide staff with relevant CPD and training intrauma-based therapies such as EMDR and Narrative Exposure Therapy.

If you're a compassionate, resilient, and skilled therapist with experience in delivering evidence-based interventions, we would love to hear from you. Join us in making a meaningful impact to forensic mental health care and thrive in a dynamic setting.

This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary.

Main duties of the job

Accountability for own professional actions, exercises discretion in determining how objectives are to be achieved and works independently on a day-to-day basis within the overall framework of relevant trust/team/service principles, policies and procedures, the appropriate professional codes of practice and terms and conditions of employment
Contribution to care provision of prisoners by providing consultation to the multidisciplinary team and ongoing support to create and implement care and treatment plans
Undertaking assessment where appropriate
Delivering individual and group psychological interventions, where appropriate
Evaluating the effectiveness of individual and group interventions
Providing consultation and supervision to team colleagues in the delivery of psychologically informed treatments
Involvement in the leadership team alongside the multi-disciplinary team to assist with service improvement and the implementation of service changes.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of local policies and procedures. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the ward to which the post relates.

Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to hold HCPC registration in order to be considered for this role.

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Date posted

03 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year plus an RSU allowance of £1,466 pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

267-FS7025809

Job locations

HMP Huntercombe

Bradley Road

Henley on Thames

RG9 5SG

Job description

Job responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Well-developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of psychotherapy
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychotherapeutic assessment commensurate with band 7 level training.
Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.

Desirable

Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in specific 'difficult to treat' groups (e.g., personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).

Qualifications

Essential

Qualified and registered with appropriate body, for instance HCPC, BACP, Nursing Midwifery Council.

Desirable

Post qualification training in psychotherapies such as CFT, CBT, EMDR, NET

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and individual and group-based treatment of clients in prison.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.

Desirable

Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Well-developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of psychotherapy
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychotherapeutic assessment commensurate with band 7 level training.
Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.

Desirable

Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in specific 'difficult to treat' groups (e.g., personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).

Qualifications

Essential

Qualified and registered with appropriate body, for instance HCPC, BACP, Nursing Midwifery Council.

Desirable

Post qualification training in psychotherapies such as CFT, CBT, EMDR, NET

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and individual and group-based treatment of clients in prison.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.

Desirable

Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

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.