Job summary
The Fen's is an innovative and challenging service forindividualswith chronic histories of traumawho are located in a male high-risk prison. The service is run jointly by NHS and HMPPS. You would be employed by CPFT NHS and enjoy the full NHS employee benefits.
Our treatment draws on attachment theory and incorporates schema focused therapy and sensorimotor psychotherapy (SPI), along with a range of short-term interventions such as EMDR, CBT, CAT etc.Through a combination of individual and group therapies, patients are given opportunities to heal from trauma and neglect, improve wellbeing and reduce risk.
We will support and fund training and accreditation in one of our core treatment models (Schema/EMDR/SPI). There are opportunities for service development, development of managerial and leadership skills as well as opportunities to further your research interests through our links withUniversities.
You will join our diverse, clinical team with a rich range of clinical and forensic experience.
The role is a permanent, full-time position with scope tocomplete somework from home .
"I wanted to change.... You know, it was a trust element....letting them see me warts and all....and that was the hard thing. Breaking down crying...getting the stuff out I needed to. I grew from that...if I don't like myself, how can anyone else like myself. How can I move on if I don't forgive myself... I've got to give myself a chance."Current service user
Main duties of the job
To act as a treatment lead for the Fens Therapeutic Climate, including ongoing development of the core treatment. Taking a lead for responsibility on the need to ensure diversity, inclusion and equalities are central to both the therapies on offer and the supporting therapeutic climate.
This work requires you to be able to work using the evidence base and NICE guidelines to develop innovative treatment for those with personality disorder and complex trauma. You will be expected to demonstrate compassionate leadership in developing and supporting a large multidisciplinary clinical and operational (HMPPS) team working towards an agreed NHS contract.
You will be an active member of the Fens senior management team and work collaboratively with the wider prison agencies and external stakeholders within HMPPS and NHS. You will be expected to take the lead role for a residential setting of 24 beds, providing direction, guidance, supervision and support to the multidisciplinary team.
You will also be responsible for co-leading the delivery of Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights (including discrimination) strategy within the Fens services in joint partnership with staff teams and service user representatives, and how this threads into the therapeutic culture.
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To work in partnership with the Clinical Lead and the two other core treatment leads to design, develop and deliver a trauma focussed treatment programme with ensuring clear leadership, attention to equality, diversity and inclusion, quality, safety and utilising service user experience
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments and treatments of prisoners referred to the team including interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To use the findings of complex assessments to develop psychological formulations of presenting problems and offending behaviours that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors. Treatment priorities to be clearly defined, measurable and in line with risk reduction and improved wellbeing.
- To provide leadership to the Community and Belonging Committee by chairing the meeting and taking a strategic role in actualising the Community and Belonging vision which is to strengthen therapeutic environmental conditions that helps us heal trauma and neglect together. Seeing equal value in all lives, the community and belonging strategy also aims to encourage all residents and staff to emotionally invest in each other and be active citizens who commit their skills and resources to contribute to community life and initiatives that enrich and transform lives, both in and outside the Fens Services.
- To communicate, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, the results of the assessment formulation and treatment reviews to the resident, wider multidisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the care of the resident. who may be hostile and antagonistic to receiving this information. There are almost always significant barriers to men accepting that they meet the criteria for treatment within the Fens High Secure Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Service.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To ensure the development, implementation and evaluation of appropriate group-work programmes in conjunction with the core treatment leads; both structured and unstructured intervention groups as required by the treatment programme. As a result of the evaluation to formulate any necessary changes and adjust the programme.
- To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.
- To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. This to include HMPPS partners and other agencies linked to the OPD pathway and care of the residents.
- To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and treating prisoners within the Fens Services at HMP Whitemoor, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
- To use both designated actuarial and clinical tools, in addition to highly specialist knowledge and expertise to undertake ongoing risk assessment and risk management for individual prisoners and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with the Fens Service Planning and Delivery Guide and with CPFT and inter-agency policies and procedures.
- To work in partnership with other disciplines to help to establish and maintain multi-disciplinary team working and care programme approach.
- To take a leading role within the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings providing direct input to those meeting and communicating information on psychological assessments, formulations and interventions collected by other psychologists and psychotherapists within the Fens Service, and other core MDT members.
- To, where appropriate, act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the prisoners needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the prisoner and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
- To contribute to prison service process of reviews of prisoners, providing written or verbal reports as appropriate to the specific reviews. Such reviews include those that relate to suicidal behaviour (ACCT reviews), lifer treatment progress reviews , Category A reviews and parole reviews as directed.
- To contribute to the wider Offenders with Personality Disorder Pathway by sharing information with other sites and developing services that will provide for these prisoners once they have left the high secure service.
- To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care, working with NHFT, and Social Care & Justice providers.
- To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including prisoners and referrers.
- To manage the treatment work and service caseloads of psychologists who contribute to the agreed psychological treatment programme.
- To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
- To collect and communicate specific information as required by the commissioners and as the NHS E contract dictates. of the Offenders with Personality Disorder Pathway.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To work in partnership with the Clinical Lead and the two other core treatment leads to design, develop and deliver a trauma focussed treatment programme with ensuring clear leadership, attention to equality, diversity and inclusion, quality, safety and utilising service user experience
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments and treatments of prisoners referred to the team including interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To use the findings of complex assessments to develop psychological formulations of presenting problems and offending behaviours that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors. Treatment priorities to be clearly defined, measurable and in line with risk reduction and improved wellbeing.
- To provide leadership to the Community and Belonging Committee by chairing the meeting and taking a strategic role in actualising the Community and Belonging vision which is to strengthen therapeutic environmental conditions that helps us heal trauma and neglect together. Seeing equal value in all lives, the community and belonging strategy also aims to encourage all residents and staff to emotionally invest in each other and be active citizens who commit their skills and resources to contribute to community life and initiatives that enrich and transform lives, both in and outside the Fens Services.
- To communicate, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, the results of the assessment formulation and treatment reviews to the resident, wider multidisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the care of the resident. who may be hostile and antagonistic to receiving this information. There are almost always significant barriers to men accepting that they meet the criteria for treatment within the Fens High Secure Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Service.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To ensure the development, implementation and evaluation of appropriate group-work programmes in conjunction with the core treatment leads; both structured and unstructured intervention groups as required by the treatment programme. As a result of the evaluation to formulate any necessary changes and adjust the programme.
- To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.
- To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. This to include HMPPS partners and other agencies linked to the OPD pathway and care of the residents.
- To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and treating prisoners within the Fens Services at HMP Whitemoor, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
- To use both designated actuarial and clinical tools, in addition to highly specialist knowledge and expertise to undertake ongoing risk assessment and risk management for individual prisoners and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with the Fens Service Planning and Delivery Guide and with CPFT and inter-agency policies and procedures.
- To work in partnership with other disciplines to help to establish and maintain multi-disciplinary team working and care programme approach.
- To take a leading role within the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings providing direct input to those meeting and communicating information on psychological assessments, formulations and interventions collected by other psychologists and psychotherapists within the Fens Service, and other core MDT members.
- To, where appropriate, act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the prisoners needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the prisoner and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
- To contribute to prison service process of reviews of prisoners, providing written or verbal reports as appropriate to the specific reviews. Such reviews include those that relate to suicidal behaviour (ACCT reviews), lifer treatment progress reviews , Category A reviews and parole reviews as directed.
- To contribute to the wider Offenders with Personality Disorder Pathway by sharing information with other sites and developing services that will provide for these prisoners once they have left the high secure service.
- To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care, working with NHFT, and Social Care & Justice providers.
- To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including prisoners and referrers.
- To manage the treatment work and service caseloads of psychologists who contribute to the agreed psychological treatment programme.
- To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
- To collect and communicate specific information as required by the commissioners and as the NHS E contract dictates. of the Offenders with Personality Disorder Pathway.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oEither doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS,
- oOr be a qualified Chartered Applied Psychologist with significant post-Chartership experience and training in at least one model of psychological therapy and an understanding of the implications of attachment theory for clinical practice
- oUndertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Clinical/ Forensic/Counselling Psychologists
- oPost qualification training in working with people with complex histories within an attachment focused treatment approach.
Desirable
- oPost-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- oAttended relevant Trust/national training on a)Leadership skills b)Management Training
Experience
Essential
- oAssessed experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist including significant post qualification experience with people with complex needs
- oExperience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified applied psychologists.
- oExperience of managing psychology resources for staffing and equipment.
- oExperience of delivering psychological assessment and therapy with complex problems
- oExperience of using complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management.
- oExperience of managing qualified and unqualified psychologists/other professional therapists including recruitment and retention, professional management procedures, appraisals, sickness absence, maternity leave/paternity leave, annual leave.
- oExperience of supporting staff to develop appropriate care pathways.
Desirable
- oExperience of identifying and addressing barriers to inclusion
- oExperience of challenging oppressive or disrespectful practices
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oAble to establish relationships with individuals who are mistrustful and fearful of rejection
- oSkills in service improvement
- oSkills in self-management including time management.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- oA high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical, contentious, highly distressing and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- oKnowledge in and evidence of providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- oHighly developed understanding of other professional's theoretical perspectives of working within the specialty.
- oKnowledge of a variety of research methods
Other
Essential
- oWillingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
- oWillingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
- oAbility to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
- oAbility to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oEither doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS,
- oOr be a qualified Chartered Applied Psychologist with significant post-Chartership experience and training in at least one model of psychological therapy and an understanding of the implications of attachment theory for clinical practice
- oUndertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Clinical/ Forensic/Counselling Psychologists
- oPost qualification training in working with people with complex histories within an attachment focused treatment approach.
Desirable
- oPost-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- oAttended relevant Trust/national training on a)Leadership skills b)Management Training
Experience
Essential
- oAssessed experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist including significant post qualification experience with people with complex needs
- oExperience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified applied psychologists.
- oExperience of managing psychology resources for staffing and equipment.
- oExperience of delivering psychological assessment and therapy with complex problems
- oExperience of using complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management.
- oExperience of managing qualified and unqualified psychologists/other professional therapists including recruitment and retention, professional management procedures, appraisals, sickness absence, maternity leave/paternity leave, annual leave.
- oExperience of supporting staff to develop appropriate care pathways.
Desirable
- oExperience of identifying and addressing barriers to inclusion
- oExperience of challenging oppressive or disrespectful practices
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oAble to establish relationships with individuals who are mistrustful and fearful of rejection
- oSkills in service improvement
- oSkills in self-management including time management.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- oA high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical, contentious, highly distressing and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- oKnowledge in and evidence of providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- oHighly developed understanding of other professional's theoretical perspectives of working within the specialty.
- oKnowledge of a variety of research methods
Other
Essential
- oWillingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
- oWillingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
- oAbility to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
- oAbility to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
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).
