Job summary
At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can we offer you:
- Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
- Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
- "In our Gift" providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
- The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
- Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
- Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
- Child Care Vouchers Scheme
- Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
- NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes
Main duties of the job
As a highly specialist psychologist working on Willow ward, Clee low secure service, you will take a lead role in providing clinical services directly to service users with complex mental health problems and needs relating to risk and offending behaviour. You will support development and delivery of responsive services for families, carers and for staff working in the service, enhancing the psychological well-being of people who use the Forensic Directorate's services. Core to your role will be the provision of specialist psychological assessment, development of formulation for people with complex presentations, and planning and delivery of individual and group therapy interventions to meet identified needs. You will provide essential supervision and support to other staff who provide psychologically based care and treatment to service users, including qualified psychologists and professionals of other disciplines. As a highly experienced psychologist, you will work autonomously within professional guidelines and existing policies and procedures. You will be actively involved in systematic governance, service developments, policy implementation, teaching, training and research across the Forensic Directorate.
In addition you will work 1 day a week in an exciting new strategic role, working closely with Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Co-Commissioners, to support provision of the best co-ordinated approach for female offenders across Midlands and East of England.
About us
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.
Demonstrating our strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and in context of our objective aligned to the growth of diversity across the workforce; we are particularly seeking applications from individuals who may be from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals who meet the specific criteria.
We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will: Leadprovision of psychologically-informed clinical services for service users with complex mental health problems and needs relating to risk and offending behaviour.
- Work within the Forensic Directorate inpatient wards and across community or custodial settings, as required.
- Provide highly specialist psychological assessments for service users and produce psychological formulations for individuals of their mental health experiences or risk-related behaviour, based upon appropriate conceptual frameworks.
- Plan and implement a range of psychological interventions for the users of the service.
- Undertake risk assessment and contribute to risk management plans for service users.
- Be responsible for psychological care and management plans for the service users including contribution to multi-disciplinary clinical team meetings.
- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to ensure the clinical team has access to psychologically based frameworks for understanding and informing the care of service users.
- Supervise and support the assessment, formulation and treatment interventions provided by qualified and pre-qualified psychological practitioners and other professional colleagues.
- Work systemically with Midlands Co-Commissioners to support broad and high quality developments for women in OPD Pathway services, ensuring effective and suitable interventions and pathways are available to enable successful transitions for female offenders.
Working as part of the wider inpatient service provided by the Forensic Directorate you will:
- Work with service users and other professionals at Clee low secure service, taking a lead role in providing clinical services directly to service users with complex mental health problems and needs relating to risk and offending behaviour
- Have responsibility for the delivery of psychological assessment of service users to inform multi-disciplinary treatment plans that will ensure effective intervention and risk management to support service users in their recovery
- Have clinical responsibility for and oversight of the delivery of psychologically-informed interventions for service users, including individual and group-based interventions, and evaluation of the effectiveness of these interventions
- Evaluate and make decisions about assessment and treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual. Agree appropriate interventions with psychology service colleagues and the multi-disciplinary team and supervise their delivery
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment/management plans of service users, through timely completion of clinical records and reports
- Liaise with colleagues in the service and Directorate more widely to ensure continued professional development and implementation of best practice
- Provide clinical supervision and case management support for other psychology service colleagues as appropriate, including Assistant Psychologists and trainees
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users. Where necessary, to undertake or support weekly, daily, or minute-by-minute assessment of the risk a service user poses to himself/herself or others
Qualifications and training
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent), as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
and/or
Post graduate level training in Forensic or Counselling Psychology (Doctoral level) as accredited by the BPS
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional areas of specialised psychological practice
- Post qualification training in clinical supervision
Experience
- Experience and knowledge of working as a qualified psychologist with people with severe and enduring mental health problems, including: people who have come into contact with the criminal justice system as a result of violent and sexually harmful behaviour; people who have attracted the label of personality disorder; working within multi-disciplinary inpatient and multi-agency community settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life span, presenting with a full range of severity across in-patient and outpatient settings, community, primary care, inpatient and residential settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users psychological care and treatment
- Experience of teaching, training and providing professional/clinical supervision to others
- Experience of use of complex multi-media skills for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Knowledge
You will
- Be skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management and their application within community and/or inpatient contexts
- Have high level skills in the assessment and management of risk
- Have well-developed skills to communicate effectively, both written and orally
- Have knowledge of relevant health and social care legislation
To ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents below for further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will: Leadprovision of psychologically-informed clinical services for service users with complex mental health problems and needs relating to risk and offending behaviour.
- Work within the Forensic Directorate inpatient wards and across community or custodial settings, as required.
- Provide highly specialist psychological assessments for service users and produce psychological formulations for individuals of their mental health experiences or risk-related behaviour, based upon appropriate conceptual frameworks.
- Plan and implement a range of psychological interventions for the users of the service.
- Undertake risk assessment and contribute to risk management plans for service users.
- Be responsible for psychological care and management plans for the service users including contribution to multi-disciplinary clinical team meetings.
- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to ensure the clinical team has access to psychologically based frameworks for understanding and informing the care of service users.
- Supervise and support the assessment, formulation and treatment interventions provided by qualified and pre-qualified psychological practitioners and other professional colleagues.
- Work systemically with Midlands Co-Commissioners to support broad and high quality developments for women in OPD Pathway services, ensuring effective and suitable interventions and pathways are available to enable successful transitions for female offenders.
Working as part of the wider inpatient service provided by the Forensic Directorate you will:
- Work with service users and other professionals at Clee low secure service, taking a lead role in providing clinical services directly to service users with complex mental health problems and needs relating to risk and offending behaviour
- Have responsibility for the delivery of psychological assessment of service users to inform multi-disciplinary treatment plans that will ensure effective intervention and risk management to support service users in their recovery
- Have clinical responsibility for and oversight of the delivery of psychologically-informed interventions for service users, including individual and group-based interventions, and evaluation of the effectiveness of these interventions
- Evaluate and make decisions about assessment and treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual. Agree appropriate interventions with psychology service colleagues and the multi-disciplinary team and supervise their delivery
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment/management plans of service users, through timely completion of clinical records and reports
- Liaise with colleagues in the service and Directorate more widely to ensure continued professional development and implementation of best practice
- Provide clinical supervision and case management support for other psychology service colleagues as appropriate, including Assistant Psychologists and trainees
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users. Where necessary, to undertake or support weekly, daily, or minute-by-minute assessment of the risk a service user poses to himself/herself or others
Qualifications and training
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent), as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
and/or
Post graduate level training in Forensic or Counselling Psychology (Doctoral level) as accredited by the BPS
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional areas of specialised psychological practice
- Post qualification training in clinical supervision
Experience
- Experience and knowledge of working as a qualified psychologist with people with severe and enduring mental health problems, including: people who have come into contact with the criminal justice system as a result of violent and sexually harmful behaviour; people who have attracted the label of personality disorder; working within multi-disciplinary inpatient and multi-agency community settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life span, presenting with a full range of severity across in-patient and outpatient settings, community, primary care, inpatient and residential settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users psychological care and treatment
- Experience of teaching, training and providing professional/clinical supervision to others
- Experience of use of complex multi-media skills for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Knowledge
You will
- Be skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management and their application within community and/or inpatient contexts
- Have high level skills in the assessment and management of risk
- Have well-developed skills to communicate effectively, both written and orally
- Have knowledge of relevant health and social care legislation
To ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents below for further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent), as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology and/or Post graduate level training in Forensic or Counselling Psychology (Doctoral level) as accredited by the BPS. Post-doctoral training in one or more additional areas of specialised psychological practice. Post qualification training for role of clinical supervisor to Doctorate trainees in applied psychology. Eligible for chartered status with the British Psychological Society. Eligible for full membership of the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) and/or Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP)/Division of Counselling Psychology (DCC). Currently registered with HCPC.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified psychologist with people with severe and enduring mental health problems; including assessment and clinical interventions for a wide range of presenting problems. To include experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and who have committed violent and sexual offences. Experience of working with people who have attracted the label of personality disorder who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and/or have committed violent and sexual offences. Substantial experience of working within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings Experience of working with the criminal justice system with up to date knowledge of relevant legislation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent), as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology and/or Post graduate level training in Forensic or Counselling Psychology (Doctoral level) as accredited by the BPS. Post-doctoral training in one or more additional areas of specialised psychological practice. Post qualification training for role of clinical supervisor to Doctorate trainees in applied psychology. Eligible for chartered status with the British Psychological Society. Eligible for full membership of the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) and/or Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP)/Division of Counselling Psychology (DCC). Currently registered with HCPC.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified psychologist with people with severe and enduring mental health problems; including assessment and clinical interventions for a wide range of presenting problems. To include experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and who have committed violent and sexual offences. Experience of working with people who have attracted the label of personality disorder who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and/or have committed violent and sexual offences. Substantial experience of working within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings Experience of working with the criminal justice system with up to date knowledge of relevant legislation
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).
