Job summary
Thank you for taking an interest in our Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist post. Please find an overview of Oxleas and the prisons within the Bristol, South Gloucestershire & Wiltshire South-West Prisons.
Oxleas Forensic Psychological Therapies department is an unusually large, long established and nationally well regarded specialty. Psychological therapists are highly valued within the wider directorate and trust and occupy a variety of service-wide leadership roles, including as Responsible Clinicians. Staff in the Forensic Directorate report the highest levels of job satisfaction in a Trust recognised for positive employee feedback. The Psychological Therapies team is warm and friendly, whilst also being dynamic and innovative.
Within the psychological therapies department, there is a focus on attachment, trauma and systemic approaches with expert supervision available for several evidence-based therapy modalities such Mentalisation based Therapy (MBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation therapy (EMDR).
This post is primarily based within HMP Bristol, HMP Ashfield and HMP Erlestoke & Leyhill and these can be agreed.
The postholder will supervise pre-qualified psychological therapists.
Main duties of the job
- 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 carers or families of referred clients when required.
About us
Oxleas - 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 description
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities for team and service clinical functioning
- Under the supervision of a senior psychologist, to lead the family and carers strategy for the Directorate.
- To facilitate a family and carers forum.
- To support the inpatient ward team in the effective working of the team and a psychologically informed framework for the team.
- Deliver accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
- To be proactive in challenging discrimination.
- To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
- To liaise with the service/s MDT and other professionals including to liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research.
- Work within the remit of relevant policies and procedures for the safe running of the service.
KR 3 Policy and service development
- To implement clinical governance standards within the service and ensure that these are maintained and improved.
- Ensure that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards.
- To undertake quality improvement projects relevant to the role.
- To ensure the engagement of service users in planning and delivering services.
KR 4 Management and supervision
- To provide line management to pre-qualified staff and to supervise students and trainees.
- To support recruitment of psychological therapies staff to the service.
- For staff line managed, to ensure local standards are implemented for the allocation and review of work, job planning, review of performance, sickness management and initial stages of grievance or disciplinary action.
- To oversee quality line management and supervision within the team structure, ensuring that assistant psychologists and trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
- To supervise psychological work carried out by other professionals as appropriate.
- To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and training of staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. This may include work with the Criminal Justice System and Childrens Services.
KR 5 Teaching and Training
- To provide and support specialist clinical placements for students and trainees in applied psychological practice.
- To contribute to the delivery of teaching and training to psychological practitioners and other professions.
- To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychological therapy and risk assessment / management and to implement knowledge gained in practice.
- To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
- To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of psychological therapies and risk assessment, over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities for team and service clinical functioning
- Under the supervision of a senior psychologist, to lead the family and carers strategy for the Directorate.
- To facilitate a family and carers forum.
- To support the inpatient ward team in the effective working of the team and a psychologically informed framework for the team.
- Deliver accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
- To be proactive in challenging discrimination.
- To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
- To liaise with the service/s MDT and other professionals including to liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research.
- Work within the remit of relevant policies and procedures for the safe running of the service.
KR 3 Policy and service development
- To implement clinical governance standards within the service and ensure that these are maintained and improved.
- Ensure that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards.
- To undertake quality improvement projects relevant to the role.
- To ensure the engagement of service users in planning and delivering services.
KR 4 Management and supervision
- To provide line management to pre-qualified staff and to supervise students and trainees.
- To support recruitment of psychological therapies staff to the service.
- For staff line managed, to ensure local standards are implemented for the allocation and review of work, job planning, review of performance, sickness management and initial stages of grievance or disciplinary action.
- To oversee quality line management and supervision within the team structure, ensuring that assistant psychologists and trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
- To supervise psychological work carried out by other professionals as appropriate.
- To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and training of staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. This may include work with the Criminal Justice System and Childrens Services.
KR 5 Teaching and Training
- To provide and support specialist clinical placements for students and trainees in applied psychological practice.
- To contribute to the delivery of teaching and training to psychological practitioners and other professions.
- To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychological therapy and risk assessment / management and to implement knowledge gained in practice.
- To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
- To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of psychological therapies and risk assessment, over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEntry-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)
Experience
Essential
- oCompletion of a minimum of two years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience (A/I)
- oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with the full range of clinical severity under supervision (A/I)
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. (A/I)
- oAbility to administer, score and interpret psychometric and neuropsychological tests with appropriate training and supervision (A/I)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEntry-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)
Experience
Essential
- oCompletion of a minimum of two years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience (A/I)
- oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with the full range of clinical severity under supervision (A/I)
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. (A/I)
- oAbility to administer, score and interpret psychometric and neuropsychological tests with appropriate training and supervision (A/I)
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.
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.
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
HMP Bristol, HMP Ashfield, HMP Erlestoke and HMP Leyhill
19 Cambridge Rd,
Bristol
BS7 8PS
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
