Job summary
London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering a pan-London Integrated Community Pathway Service (ICPS) for the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway alongside Probation Service London (PSL) colleagues.
The OPD Pathway programme provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to the multi-agency professionals working with them. LPP also co-delivers OPD services in four prisons in partnership with HMPPS Prison Service staff. The ICPS delivers consultation, training, and joint casework to PSL, and assessment, case management, and therapeutic interventions to service users.
'This role requires you to pass Enhanced Level 1 Probation vetting. If you are successful at interview, an unconditional offer of employment will not be provided until vetting is successfully passed.'
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide psychological input to the East London Integrated Community Pathway Service (ICPS), comprising an Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS) and CORE-OM service. The post holder with be responsible for providing a specialist psychological service to the IIRMS multi-disciplinary team and outpatients presenting with complex personality difficulties and high-risk of offending. They will provide comprehensive and holistic psychological assessment, risk management, and interventions informed by best practice in risk assessment and literature on working with personality disordered offenders, with an emphasis on desistance.
Within the CORE-OM service, the post holder will be responsible for providing a specialist psychology service to Probation Service London, including advising on and providing specialist psychological assessment, risk management, and joint casework. As part of a team, they will provide a consultation and liaison service to the probation service in East London and occasionally more widely across London.
The post holder will contribute to the development and implementation of effective governance frameworks, and to the audit and evaluation of developing services. The post holder will directly contribute to workforce development through both staff consultation and the provision of training to a range of staff including partner agencies and allied health professionals.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Relevant clinical qualification as a psychological therapist within health or social care professions
- Accreditation and registration with the relevant clinical body
Desirable
- Other relevant CPD qualifications, pre- or posttraining. Especially training in working with people with trauma presentations, research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings
- Experience 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.
- Experience of working with clients from a range of cultural and ethnic groups and within a multicultural framework.
- Experience working with those with a diagnosis of personality disorder and/or a history of self-harm and/or trauma.
- Experience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings.
- Experience of teaching and training.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing training, advice, and psychological information and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses).
- Ability to work intensively with people who present challenges in the complexity of their problems and needs including self-harming and suicidal behaviours and violent offending.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Relevant clinical qualification as a psychological therapist within health or social care professions
- Accreditation and registration with the relevant clinical body
Desirable
- Other relevant CPD qualifications, pre- or posttraining. Especially training in working with people with trauma presentations, research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings
- Experience 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.
- Experience of working with clients from a range of cultural and ethnic groups and within a multicultural framework.
- Experience working with those with a diagnosis of personality disorder and/or a history of self-harm and/or trauma.
- Experience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings.
- Experience of teaching and training.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing training, advice, and psychological information and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses).
- Ability to work intensively with people who present challenges in the complexity of their problems and needs including self-harming and suicidal behaviours and violent offending.
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
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).
