Job summary
Health and Justice Services part of the Specialist Service Network for GMMH are looking to recruit a committed and dynamic psychological therapist to work within the Integrated mental health team (IMHT) working into HMP Styal.
The IMHT comprises of multi-disciplinary professional's, including Mental health Nurses, a Psychiatrist, Psychologists, an Art therapist, PWP's and health care support workers, all providing mental health support to women across the prison estate.
The post holder would be expected to work with a caseload of clients providing detailed assessments and psychological therapy, often spanning several months. As such the post holder will need accreditation and experience in a range of psychological interventions. Psychological assessment and intervention will be driven by a strong understanding of developmental and complex trauma and the impact this has on offending, mental health, interpersonal behaviour, and personality presentation. The post-holder will also support the development and facilitation of model specific group intervention, such as DBT and CFT informed groups.
As a therapist, the role would also incorporate the clinical supervision and support of PWP staff and will work closely with the practitioner psychologist to provide psychological advice and support to IMHT, HMPPS staff and other stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
To work with individual service-users and others involved in their care to support improved psychological health and well-being and more generally to contribute to a reduction in the risk of offending behaviour.
To complete psychological assessments to develop idiosyncratic and nuanced psychological and model specific formulations in order to inform future therapy and intervention.
To carefully consider service-user's interpersonal interactions, management of emotional regulation, past traumatic experiences and consideration of how this is linked to their mental health and behavioural presentation within custody. And to incorporate this within assessment and intervention.
To provide individual therapy, which is driven by detailed assessment and a strong working formulation of psychological need.
To contribute to the multi-professional understanding of service-user presentation and support the development of a psychologically informed environment.
It is important that the post holder can exercise autonomous professional responsibility. The post is placed in a challenging but rewarding environment and therefore it is essential that the post holder is able to demonstrate the ability to work within a similarly demanding environment.
About us
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over6,400members of staff, who deliver services from more than160locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work with individual service-users and others involved in their care to support improved psychological health and well-being and more generally to contribute to a reduction in the risk of offending behaviour.
To complete psychological assessments to develop idiosyncratic and nuanced psychological and model specific formulations in order to inform future therapy and intervention.
To carefully consider service-users interpersonal interactions, management of emotional regulation, past traumatic experiences and consideration of how this is linked to their mental health and behavioural presentation within custody. And to incorporate this within assessment and intervention.
To provide individual therapy, which is driven by detailed assessment and a strong working formulation of psychological need.
To contribute to the multi-professional understanding of service-user presentation and support the development of a psychologically informed environment.
It is important that the post holder can exercise autonomous professional responsibility. The post is placed in a challenging but rewarding environment and therefore it is essential that the post holder is able to demonstrate the ability to work within a similarly demanding environment.
To support the development of psychologically informed ways of working with individual service-users and by supporting staff within the IMHT and the wider establishment.
To contribute to the development and delivery of training to both GMMH and HMPPS staff and other partnership agencies where needed.
To promote a developed and applied understanding of offender behaviour including personality complexity, attachment, and trauma.
To contribute to effective risk management strategies that ensure liaison with all relevant stakeholders in an individuals care, and service-user involvement where possible.
To take an active role in the process of multi-disciplinary risk assessment, utilizing relevant assessment tools.
To support consultation and formulation process with HMPPS staff, documenting formulations and recommendations as appropriate.
To communicate any changes to a service-users risk profile in a timely manner, both operationally and clinically and to report adverse incidents and ensure documentation is detailed and up-to-date.
To provide supervision to junior staff including IMHT PWPs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work with individual service-users and others involved in their care to support improved psychological health and well-being and more generally to contribute to a reduction in the risk of offending behaviour.
To complete psychological assessments to develop idiosyncratic and nuanced psychological and model specific formulations in order to inform future therapy and intervention.
To carefully consider service-users interpersonal interactions, management of emotional regulation, past traumatic experiences and consideration of how this is linked to their mental health and behavioural presentation within custody. And to incorporate this within assessment and intervention.
To provide individual therapy, which is driven by detailed assessment and a strong working formulation of psychological need.
To contribute to the multi-professional understanding of service-user presentation and support the development of a psychologically informed environment.
It is important that the post holder can exercise autonomous professional responsibility. The post is placed in a challenging but rewarding environment and therefore it is essential that the post holder is able to demonstrate the ability to work within a similarly demanding environment.
To support the development of psychologically informed ways of working with individual service-users and by supporting staff within the IMHT and the wider establishment.
To contribute to the development and delivery of training to both GMMH and HMPPS staff and other partnership agencies where needed.
To promote a developed and applied understanding of offender behaviour including personality complexity, attachment, and trauma.
To contribute to effective risk management strategies that ensure liaison with all relevant stakeholders in an individuals care, and service-user involvement where possible.
To take an active role in the process of multi-disciplinary risk assessment, utilizing relevant assessment tools.
To support consultation and formulation process with HMPPS staff, documenting formulations and recommendations as appropriate.
To communicate any changes to a service-users risk profile in a timely manner, both operationally and clinically and to report adverse incidents and ensure documentation is detailed and up-to-date.
To provide supervision to junior staff including IMHT PWPs.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oA qualification in health care at graduate level in nursing, social work or allied health profession. PLUS, post- graduate diploma (or equivalent) in a psychological therapy with professional registration to a relevant governing body (The Health and Care Profession Council [HCPC], the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies [BABCP], other relevant governing body).
- oA post-graduate diploma in a psychological therapy modality and accreditation with (The Health and Care Profession Council [HCPC],the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies [BABCP], other relevant governing body).
Desirable
- oPost qualification training in a specialised area of psychological practice (e.g EMDR, Systemic, CAT, DBT etc).
- oSupervision Training.
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of developing assessments, formulations and therapeutic intervention to people presenting with complex mental health, personality difficulties or offending behaviours.
- oExperience of applying cognitive behavioural therapy approaches/ other psychological therapy modality.
- oExperience of using trauma focused interventions.
- oExperience of using psychometric measures.
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
- oExperience of conducting high quality risk assessments and implementing risk management plans.
- oExperience of working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
- oExperience of providing supervision to other professionals.
- oExperience of teaching and training to other professionals
- oExperience working within a custodial setting or secure environment or with offenders.
- oExperience of working within a trauma informed environment.
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge and awareness of the factors that contribute to offending behaviour, complex personality presentations, emotional dysregulation and interpersonal difficulties.
- oKnowledge of psychological treatment approaches for working with those presenting with complex presentations and difficulties.
- oBe able to provide effective liaison with colleagues in the wider system, as well as other statutory / non statutory services relevant to the client and their ongoing needs. Contribute when required, to team research and development activities.
- oEvidence of CPD as recommended by a professional registration body.
Desirable
- oKnowledge of policy and legislation in relation to service specialism and of relevant mental health legislation
- oAwareness of CPA and stepped care approach in mental health care and provision.
Skills and abilities
Essential
- oCommunicate directly with clients, partners and families and other healthcare professionals, complex and potentially emotive information
- oDemonstrate skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- oDemonstrate well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- oAbility to organise time effectively.
- oAbility to use own initiative and to work under supervision where appropriate.
- oAbility to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other professionals.
- oAbility to promote and advocate for a psychologically informed way of working.
- oTo show resilience within a challenging working environment and have awareness of own professional and personal limitations.
Desirable
- oSkills in organising and facilitating groups for the provision of psychological interventions.
- oSkills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
Other requirements
Essential
- oThere is an occasional requirement to travel across the wide footprint of the Trust to attend meetings and events relevant to the role.
- oTo support the wider Health and Justice psychology provision by providing short-term support or assessment to other establishments across the GMMH prison footprint.
- oThe post holder will be supported with the security vetting to enable them to work within the setting.
Desirable
- oExperience of working within a multicultural framework.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oA qualification in health care at graduate level in nursing, social work or allied health profession. PLUS, post- graduate diploma (or equivalent) in a psychological therapy with professional registration to a relevant governing body (The Health and Care Profession Council [HCPC], the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies [BABCP], other relevant governing body).
- oA post-graduate diploma in a psychological therapy modality and accreditation with (The Health and Care Profession Council [HCPC],the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies [BABCP], other relevant governing body).
Desirable
- oPost qualification training in a specialised area of psychological practice (e.g EMDR, Systemic, CAT, DBT etc).
- oSupervision Training.
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of developing assessments, formulations and therapeutic intervention to people presenting with complex mental health, personality difficulties or offending behaviours.
- oExperience of applying cognitive behavioural therapy approaches/ other psychological therapy modality.
- oExperience of using trauma focused interventions.
- oExperience of using psychometric measures.
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
- oExperience of conducting high quality risk assessments and implementing risk management plans.
- oExperience of working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
- oExperience of providing supervision to other professionals.
- oExperience of teaching and training to other professionals
- oExperience working within a custodial setting or secure environment or with offenders.
- oExperience of working within a trauma informed environment.
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge and awareness of the factors that contribute to offending behaviour, complex personality presentations, emotional dysregulation and interpersonal difficulties.
- oKnowledge of psychological treatment approaches for working with those presenting with complex presentations and difficulties.
- oBe able to provide effective liaison with colleagues in the wider system, as well as other statutory / non statutory services relevant to the client and their ongoing needs. Contribute when required, to team research and development activities.
- oEvidence of CPD as recommended by a professional registration body.
Desirable
- oKnowledge of policy and legislation in relation to service specialism and of relevant mental health legislation
- oAwareness of CPA and stepped care approach in mental health care and provision.
Skills and abilities
Essential
- oCommunicate directly with clients, partners and families and other healthcare professionals, complex and potentially emotive information
- oDemonstrate skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- oDemonstrate well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- oAbility to organise time effectively.
- oAbility to use own initiative and to work under supervision where appropriate.
- oAbility to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other professionals.
- oAbility to promote and advocate for a psychologically informed way of working.
- oTo show resilience within a challenging working environment and have awareness of own professional and personal limitations.
Desirable
- oSkills in organising and facilitating groups for the provision of psychological interventions.
- oSkills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
Other requirements
Essential
- oThere is an occasional requirement to travel across the wide footprint of the Trust to attend meetings and events relevant to the role.
- oTo support the wider Health and Justice psychology provision by providing short-term support or assessment to other establishments across the GMMH prison footprint.
- oThe post holder will be supported with the security vetting to enable them to work within the setting.
Desirable
- oExperience of working within a multicultural framework.
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).
