Clinical Lead; OPD Services - HMP Highdown

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to lead & develop a newly commissioned Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Service. The service, due to be mobilised in April, will include an OPD outreach service to men within HMP Highdown and a specialist residential Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE) unit for men with learning disabilities. The services form part of the national Men's OPD pathway and will be a national first

You will be joining & establishing a new staff team that will include psychologists, a neurodiversity practitioner, occupational therapists, a Speech & Language therapist, prison officers and an Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner. We are seeking a compassionate & enthusiastic clinical lead who will advocate & support the needs of our complex and neurodiverse population

This is a London Pathways Partnership (LPP) service, with CNWL as the lead provider. LPP is a consortium of 5 NHS Trusts working in partnership to deliver a network of services to complex and high-risk service users in London & the Southeast. LPP deliver integrated services, primarily within the OPD pathway across London community & within several local prisons, thus ensuring a supported prison to community pathway. LPP also have an active staff development programme which may include training & accredited supervision in specialist therapies provision. LPP also actively supports research and has close relationships with academics from several local universities

Main duties of the job

To provide senior clinical leadership & line management of the OPD service at HMP Highdown

To clinically supervise and professionally manage qualified & trainee psychologists
To ensure robust pathway planning for all clients involved in the PIPE and Outreach servic
To provide clinical supervision and/or reflective practice to identified HMPPS staff involved in the OPD service and offer specialist consultation & expertise regarding the treatment and understanding of highly complex cases that pose a risk to self and other
To ensure that all OPD systems, practices and guidance are adhered to and maintained
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research

About us

By joining LPP and CNWL you will be joining a large department of psychologists and psychological therapists that provide an array of mental health and OPD services across London and the home counties. Our staff are dynamic and welcoming and the networking and CPD opportunities are central to our services ethos. We have active research forums and promote our services and work through academic and clinical forums. All staff receive regular supervision and are supported with career aspirations and progression.

Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:

Health and wellbeing services
Season ticket loans
Cycle to work scheme

The trust alsovalues its staff and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.

All of our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.HMP High Down is easily accessible form London and the surrounding areas.

Date posted

03 February 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£61,341 to £70,439 a year per annum inc. Outer HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

333-D-HJ-1242-A

Job locations

HMP High Down

Sutton Lane

Sutton, Surrey

SM2 5PD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Clinical Responsibilities:

To implement, lead and oversee the Clinical Provision within the outreach service and the PIPE which includes the delivery of small groups and workshops, creative sessions, enrichment activities, individual work and community meetings.
To plan, implement, oversee and review individually tailored programmes of intervention using individual and group work approaches for prisoners within the PIPE unit.
To support OPD specific treatment pathways and treatment interventions for all clients referred to and accepted onto the PIPE at HMP Highdown in order to complement sentence planning.
To develop and manage referral processes to ensure safe and fair access and transition into and out of the PIPE service.
To liaise with other professionals within the mental health team, in third sector partner organisations and with other counselling providers and National Probation Staff to ensure robust referral pathways, that compliment sentence planning.
To provide specialist psychological formulation to those referred to the OPD Service at HMP Highdown based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients and others involved in the clients care.
To formulate and implement management plans for those presenting with highly complex needs and/or risk to themselves by employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy and where appropriate, in liaison with National Probation Staff and other interested parties.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for highly complex individual clients who pose a high risk of harm to self and others, and to provide expertise and knowledge to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To communicate in a skilled, persuasive and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment formulation and treatment plans of clients, and to monitor progress during the course of their multidisciplinary care.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, for self and staff you supervise.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording, and report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance, in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group, mental health and within OPD guidance.
To ensure that all aspects of professional activity (e.g. communication with clients, relatives, colleagues as well as in the assessment, development/delivery of interventions) issues of diversity such as race, culture, identity, gender and sexuality are sensitively considered and incorporated to reflect individual differences appropriately.
To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment enabling such views to be assimilated / incorporated into continued service development and improvement.

Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development:

To oversee, promote and maintain the PIPE service as a relational environment that adheres to Enabling Environment standards as defined by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
To contribute to thinking and writing for tender documents for new contracts; specifically in relation to designing OPD service provision but also in relation to overall service design.
To oversee the further consolidation and management of OPD services at HMP Highdown and support other Health & Justice or LPP sites developing similar.
To ensure OPD services are subject to appropriate governance processes. That all reporting of data and OPD KPIs are reported to a high standard which is timely and well managed. That provision of activity and outcome data is reported to commissioners as appropriate for contract monitoring and service evaluation.
To oversee the OPD budget, which is managed and maintained within budgetary constraints.
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To identify and to advise service managers on those aspects of the service where psychological or organisation matters need addressing.
To have oversight of the caseloads and workloads in the PIPE team.
To conduct individual performance reviews of junior staff.
To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of staff.
To design, facilitate and monitor appropriate outcome and evaluation tools for OPD services in HMP Highdown.
To attend key meetings within HMP Highdown to represent the Service and the Trust.
To forge and maintain positive working alliances with prisons governors and prison senior managers to ensure safe and effective service delivery.

Communication:

To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information in an atmosphere where clients can be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive, where adherence to detail and accuracy must be meticulous since the strands of communication can be conflicting, and where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills.
To act in an appropriate dignified and responsible manner with clients, relatives and colleagues, using appropriate language and communication skills which acknowledge cultural differences.
To communicate effectively in supervision and line management of CNWL and HMPPS staff. To encourage the professional development of others by utilising effective communication.
To attend meetings, including at a senior level, and present both verbally and in writing, information about your sector of responsibility and psychological services in a concise and efficient manner.

Training, Teaching & Supervision:

To receive regular clinical supervision from a suitably qualified and experienced senior member of staff and, where appropriate, other professional colleagues.
To ensure own professional development and registration are maintained.
To contribute to LPP and Health & Justice wide training, liaison and consultation programme. Offering education and support to prison staff and others on psychological understanding and interventions.
To develop skills in the area of professional postgraduate teaching, training and supervision, particularly of clinical staff.
To work closely with both psychology and non-psychology colleagues through training and supervision to develop quality services in the defined sector of responsibility.
To provide teaching, training and supervision to staff and colleagues in the multidisciplinary team, and other psychologists.

Policy and Procedures:

The duties and responsibilities of this post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies, procedures and practices of CNWL / Health & Justice Directorate and with the Code of Conduct and Guidance on Professional Practice and working within HCPC guidelines. It is the post-holders responsibility to ensure that they keep up-to-date with these policies and other policy documents.
To work in accordance with Health & Justice Directorate procedures, and with those of local prison/hospital sites, in particular security and health and safety.
To obtain and maintain prison security clearance and work in accordance with security directives from the prison.
To apply equal opportunities principles at all times and participates in training activities and Individual Performance and Development Reviews.

Research and Development:

To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other colleagues in the multidisciplinary team.
To devise and undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to others undertaking research, to develop service and knowledge base and inform national policy relating to the offender personality disorder pathway.
To lead on specific project management, including complex audit and service evaluation.

IT responsibilities (other than those used for research)

To input and maintain appropriate computer and clinical records and statistical data and provide this to Service Managers/ Consultant Clinical Psychologist when necessary.
To engage in relevant computer and IT training as required.
To be responsible for ensuring that those staff you are responsible for/supervise engage in relevant computer and IT training as required and will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Clinical Responsibilities:

To implement, lead and oversee the Clinical Provision within the outreach service and the PIPE which includes the delivery of small groups and workshops, creative sessions, enrichment activities, individual work and community meetings.
To plan, implement, oversee and review individually tailored programmes of intervention using individual and group work approaches for prisoners within the PIPE unit.
To support OPD specific treatment pathways and treatment interventions for all clients referred to and accepted onto the PIPE at HMP Highdown in order to complement sentence planning.
To develop and manage referral processes to ensure safe and fair access and transition into and out of the PIPE service.
To liaise with other professionals within the mental health team, in third sector partner organisations and with other counselling providers and National Probation Staff to ensure robust referral pathways, that compliment sentence planning.
To provide specialist psychological formulation to those referred to the OPD Service at HMP Highdown based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients and others involved in the clients care.
To formulate and implement management plans for those presenting with highly complex needs and/or risk to themselves by employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy and where appropriate, in liaison with National Probation Staff and other interested parties.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for highly complex individual clients who pose a high risk of harm to self and others, and to provide expertise and knowledge to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To communicate in a skilled, persuasive and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment formulation and treatment plans of clients, and to monitor progress during the course of their multidisciplinary care.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, for self and staff you supervise.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording, and report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance, in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group, mental health and within OPD guidance.
To ensure that all aspects of professional activity (e.g. communication with clients, relatives, colleagues as well as in the assessment, development/delivery of interventions) issues of diversity such as race, culture, identity, gender and sexuality are sensitively considered and incorporated to reflect individual differences appropriately.
To ensure that clients are appropriately consulted about relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment enabling such views to be assimilated / incorporated into continued service development and improvement.

Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development:

To oversee, promote and maintain the PIPE service as a relational environment that adheres to Enabling Environment standards as defined by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
To contribute to thinking and writing for tender documents for new contracts; specifically in relation to designing OPD service provision but also in relation to overall service design.
To oversee the further consolidation and management of OPD services at HMP Highdown and support other Health & Justice or LPP sites developing similar.
To ensure OPD services are subject to appropriate governance processes. That all reporting of data and OPD KPIs are reported to a high standard which is timely and well managed. That provision of activity and outcome data is reported to commissioners as appropriate for contract monitoring and service evaluation.
To oversee the OPD budget, which is managed and maintained within budgetary constraints.
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To identify and to advise service managers on those aspects of the service where psychological or organisation matters need addressing.
To have oversight of the caseloads and workloads in the PIPE team.
To conduct individual performance reviews of junior staff.
To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of staff.
To design, facilitate and monitor appropriate outcome and evaluation tools for OPD services in HMP Highdown.
To attend key meetings within HMP Highdown to represent the Service and the Trust.
To forge and maintain positive working alliances with prisons governors and prison senior managers to ensure safe and effective service delivery.

Communication:

To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information in an atmosphere where clients can be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive, where adherence to detail and accuracy must be meticulous since the strands of communication can be conflicting, and where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills.
To act in an appropriate dignified and responsible manner with clients, relatives and colleagues, using appropriate language and communication skills which acknowledge cultural differences.
To communicate effectively in supervision and line management of CNWL and HMPPS staff. To encourage the professional development of others by utilising effective communication.
To attend meetings, including at a senior level, and present both verbally and in writing, information about your sector of responsibility and psychological services in a concise and efficient manner.

Training, Teaching & Supervision:

To receive regular clinical supervision from a suitably qualified and experienced senior member of staff and, where appropriate, other professional colleagues.
To ensure own professional development and registration are maintained.
To contribute to LPP and Health & Justice wide training, liaison and consultation programme. Offering education and support to prison staff and others on psychological understanding and interventions.
To develop skills in the area of professional postgraduate teaching, training and supervision, particularly of clinical staff.
To work closely with both psychology and non-psychology colleagues through training and supervision to develop quality services in the defined sector of responsibility.
To provide teaching, training and supervision to staff and colleagues in the multidisciplinary team, and other psychologists.

Policy and Procedures:

The duties and responsibilities of this post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies, procedures and practices of CNWL / Health & Justice Directorate and with the Code of Conduct and Guidance on Professional Practice and working within HCPC guidelines. It is the post-holders responsibility to ensure that they keep up-to-date with these policies and other policy documents.
To work in accordance with Health & Justice Directorate procedures, and with those of local prison/hospital sites, in particular security and health and safety.
To obtain and maintain prison security clearance and work in accordance with security directives from the prison.
To apply equal opportunities principles at all times and participates in training activities and Individual Performance and Development Reviews.

Research and Development:

To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other colleagues in the multidisciplinary team.
To devise and undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to others undertaking research, to develop service and knowledge base and inform national policy relating to the offender personality disorder pathway.
To lead on specific project management, including complex audit and service evaluation.

IT responsibilities (other than those used for research)

To input and maintain appropriate computer and clinical records and statistical data and provide this to Service Managers/ Consultant Clinical Psychologist when necessary.
To engage in relevant computer and IT training as required.
To be responsible for ensuring that those staff you are responsible for/supervise engage in relevant computer and IT training as required and will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data.

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

oAn honours degree in Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
oDoctoral level training in clinical, counselling or forensic psychology or equivalent, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, equivalent to that accredited by the BPS.
oEvidence of significant post-qualification specialist training, experience and developing expertise in a relevant specialist area of clinical practice.
oHCPC Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
oCompletion of supervisor training course.

Desirable

oOther relevant CPD qualifications, pre- or post-training. Especially training in working with people with trauma and/or neurodiverse presentations, research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Paid/unpaid relevant to job

Essential

oSubstantial assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist in the field of mental health and or criminal justice system post qualification.
oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings
oExperience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
oExperience of teaching and training.
oExperience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
oExperience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings.
oExperience of working within a prison environment and of supporting and developing psychological services in such.
oAdvanced knowledge, experience and expertise in at least one relevant specialist area of clinical practice gained through specialist training and supervised practice (e.g. psychotherapy, neuropsychology, risk assessment, clinical supervision).
oExperience and expertise in in the specialist area of learning disability and/or neurodiversity.
oExperience of leading on projects of service design or improvement.
oExperience of leadership, management and supervision of trainees and qualified staff including those from other disciplines.
oExperience of working together with service users to ensure that they are equal partners in service design, evaluation, research and training
oExperience of working within a multicultural framework

Desirable

Experience of supervision of qualified psychologists
Awareness of institutional dynamics.
Research/publications on relevant issues.
Experience of working indirectly with staff groups
Experience of working within secure environments and/or forensic mental health and of supporting and developing psychological services in such
Experience of delivering group interventions
Experience of using a trauma informed approach

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

oAn honours degree in Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
oDoctoral level training in clinical, counselling or forensic psychology or equivalent, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, equivalent to that accredited by the BPS.
oEvidence of significant post-qualification specialist training, experience and developing expertise in a relevant specialist area of clinical practice.
oHCPC Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
oCompletion of supervisor training course.

Desirable

oOther relevant CPD qualifications, pre- or post-training. Especially training in working with people with trauma and/or neurodiverse presentations, research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Paid/unpaid relevant to job

Essential

oSubstantial assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist in the field of mental health and or criminal justice system post qualification.
oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings
oExperience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
oExperience of teaching and training.
oExperience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
oExperience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings.
oExperience of working within a prison environment and of supporting and developing psychological services in such.
oAdvanced knowledge, experience and expertise in at least one relevant specialist area of clinical practice gained through specialist training and supervised practice (e.g. psychotherapy, neuropsychology, risk assessment, clinical supervision).
oExperience and expertise in in the specialist area of learning disability and/or neurodiversity.
oExperience of leading on projects of service design or improvement.
oExperience of leadership, management and supervision of trainees and qualified staff including those from other disciplines.
oExperience of working together with service users to ensure that they are equal partners in service design, evaluation, research and training
oExperience of working within a multicultural framework

Desirable

Experience of supervision of qualified psychologists
Awareness of institutional dynamics.
Research/publications on relevant issues.
Experience of working indirectly with staff groups
Experience of working within secure environments and/or forensic mental health and of supporting and developing psychological services in such
Experience of delivering group interventions
Experience of using a trauma informed approach

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.

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