Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Job summary

We are excited that our prison services are transforming in partnership with other healthcare providers across our BEH London Prisons and are looking for candidates who are interested in working in prison mental health to come and work with us in our Mental Health Hub.

This role includes working across Early Days in Custody, Planned Care, Unscheduled (Crisis Care) and Release and Transfer. The post holder will be required to support the delivery of care currently in the form of this New Models of Care, enabling the service to meet the London Wide service specification standards for Prison Healthcare.

The post holder will lead the therapies team to ensure they work to an agreed operational policy offering a high standard and an integrated triage, assessment and intervention individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems in line with the New Models of Care.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to patients under the care of the Mental Health team and Therapies Service at HMP Pentonville.

The role includes providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

To provide supervision to unqualified psychology staff and to support senior staff to further develop the service. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

About us

BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) andcommunity Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. In Enfield, we provide a full range of child and adult community health services, which over the last few years has been integrating with its mental health services to provide better and more holistic care.

BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which is the lead provider of forensic mental health services; that managed the devolved.

New Models of care budget, it delivers MH care across some of the prisons, and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury. We are rated as 'Outstanding' by the CQC. We also provide one of the largest eating disorder services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

Date posted

10 March 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,903 to £61,996 a year Per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

306-BEH-772

Job locations

HMP Pentonville

Caledonian Road

London

N7 8TT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Person Specification

Person spec

Essential

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology. OR Doctoral level training in forensic psychology with full competencies completed. OR Doctoral level training in Counselling Psychology
Registration with HCPC
Experience of working within a forensic setting/service (ideally prison environment) either in a B7 role, or as a trainee.

Desirable

Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Person Specification

Person spec

Essential

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology. OR Doctoral level training in forensic psychology with full competencies completed. OR Doctoral level training in Counselling Psychology
Registration with HCPC
Experience of working within a forensic setting/service (ideally prison environment) either in a B7 role, or as a trainee.

Desirable

Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).