Consultant Clinical/ Counselling/ Forensic Psychologist

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHFT) is contracted to provide the award-winning Inspires Service, in partnership with HMP Swinfen Hall, based near Lichfield, Staffordshire. The prison holds male prisoners aged 18-28 years old, serving long sentences (4 years and over).

Inspires is part of the National Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and works collaboratively with the prison to deliver a residential assessment and treatment service, Delta Enabling Environment (DEE), a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE) and Enhanced Support Service (ESS) for prisoners with personality difficulties and a (NRTS) Non-residential treatment service.

Inspires provides a compassion focused approach in recognising the impact of trauma, deprivation, disempowerment of adverse childhood experiences in the development of persistent patterns of problematic relationships and behaviours.

We work with both individuals and in group settings using psychologically informed, occupational and creative interventions and complete assessments, formulations, case reviews in working towards reducing reoffending. This is in partnership with HMPPS team, wider healthcare, our service-users and other agencies to deliver an integrated model.

Main duties of the job

The Inspires Service has been recognised by HMIP as "The flagship" for young male adults within the Offender Personality Disorder pathway. All services are working towards achieving Enabling Environment status ensuring quality & demonstrating that we are achieving an outstanding level of best practice in creating a positive and effective social environment.

Clinical and Strategic Leadership of the Inspires Service at HMYOI Swinfen Hall and management of the team offering the service

Working in partnership with HMPSS to ensure the smooth operational delivery of the service

Clinical supervision and management of the team delivering the service

Meeting the requirements of the service specification to meet the needs of the population and OPD spec.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

HMYOI Swinfen Hall

Lichfield

WS14 9QS

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

HMYOI Swinfen Hall

Lichfield

WS14 9QS

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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