Job summary
Are
you passionate about making a difference with complex and high-risk individuals
in the criminal justice system?
We
are looking for a skilled and motivated psychological professional to join our
small and friendly Bridging the Gap Team.
Bridging
the Gap is an Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS) to
deliver individually tailored and psychologically informed Interventions to
high risk male and female adults on probation across North Yorkshire and
Humberside.
This
is a unique opportunity to manage a specialist caseload, deliver and evaluate
evidence-based interventions, and contribute to psychologically informed care
planning in a multi-agency context.
Youll
act as a clinical expert within the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD)
pathway, supporting colleagues through consultation, supervision, and training,
while also helping to shape service development and best practice.
The
successful candidate will be required to attend CFT and DBT training and
undergo training to deliver EMDR as part of our intervention offer.
Main duties of the job
Working with adults on probation across North Yorkshire and
Humberside, you will provide specialist psychological
assessment, intervention, and manage risk of serious harm and
reoffending and promote psychological well-being and social
engagement.
You will hold a caseload of clients, support team formulation,
provide clinical supervision and contribute to service
development and staff training.
As part of our intervention offer you will deliver EMDR
About us
Bridging
the Gap is a community-based intervention and risk management service that
seeks to complement, enhance, and work within existing Probation Service
provision. The Service offers a defined programme of psychologically informed
interventions and risk management and provides a direct service to people on
probation.
Always strive to provide excellent service by following best practices and staying true to our values. Along with your main duties, look for ways to improve how we work, bring new ideas and help our organisation grow.
See feedback as a chance to learn, grow and get even better. Equality and diversity are everyone's responsibility and as a proudly anti-racist organisation, you have a key role in helping drive this important work forward.
And, as you would expect, being part of our team means taking care of your own health and safety, as well as your colleagues', following our policies and procedures, taking responsibility and completing any necessary training to grow in your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage a highly specialised caseload of adult probation clients who are
assessed as presenting with complex risk and needs.
To assess and monitor risk and develop interventions to manage risk for
individual clients, and contribute to multi-disciplinary care planning around risk,
in line with organisational and inter-agency policies and procedures.
To evaluate treatment outcomes with clients, selecting appropriately validated
psychometric measures and other assessment techniques.
To convey highly complex and specialist information to clients and significant
others/relevant workers within the Criminal Justice system and other partner
organisations.
To act as a clinical expert in the field of psychological therapy and to
provide advice and consultation on clients psychological care and risk
management to BtG colleagues and stakeholders.
To liaise with professionals from other health and criminal justice services
regarding a clients psychological care. To include building links with Probation
and other services working with clients in the pathway and sharing ideas and
providing support to encourage psychologically informed and consistent support.
To help develop complex formulations for people on probation assessed as
posing a high or very high risk of serious harm based upon a range of theoretical
perspectives.
To provide formal supervision on psychological interventions to BtG colleagues
and trainee therapists as agreed with the clinical lead and as appropriate to the
grade.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines, Bridging the Gap policies
and procedures and the overall framework of the Intensive Intervention and Risk
Management Service. To be accountable for own actions and decisions without
direct or day to day supervision or support.
To contribute to and help develop robust mechanisms for audit, data collection
and clinical governance.
To contribute to the development of psychological intervention skills and
knowledge within the Service and within Bridging the Gap.
To contribute to policy development and service development as appropriate to
the grade and in line with the standards set by the OPD Commissioners.
To ensure client records and other information systems are completed accurately
and within agreed timescales.
To ensure that support undertaken is meaningful, respectful, promotes self-determination and is in line with the individual formulation and Intervention plan.
To contribute to the achievement of annually set individual and team targets.
To participate in regular Line Management and Clinical supervision.
To support and contribute to a positive client-led service culture and philosophy.
To be involved in the development of training to partners involved in the OPD
Pathway.
To maintain accreditation with the appropriate professional body, i.e. HCPC,
attend Compassion Focused Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy training
and undergo training to deliver Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing.
Ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by
managing, processing, and safeguarding personal data in accordance with legal
requirements including conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs).
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage a highly specialised caseload of adult probation clients who are
assessed as presenting with complex risk and needs.
To assess and monitor risk and develop interventions to manage risk for
individual clients, and contribute to multi-disciplinary care planning around risk,
in line with organisational and inter-agency policies and procedures.
To evaluate treatment outcomes with clients, selecting appropriately validated
psychometric measures and other assessment techniques.
To convey highly complex and specialist information to clients and significant
others/relevant workers within the Criminal Justice system and other partner
organisations.
To act as a clinical expert in the field of psychological therapy and to
provide advice and consultation on clients psychological care and risk
management to BtG colleagues and stakeholders.
To liaise with professionals from other health and criminal justice services
regarding a clients psychological care. To include building links with Probation
and other services working with clients in the pathway and sharing ideas and
providing support to encourage psychologically informed and consistent support.
To help develop complex formulations for people on probation assessed as
posing a high or very high risk of serious harm based upon a range of theoretical
perspectives.
To provide formal supervision on psychological interventions to BtG colleagues
and trainee therapists as agreed with the clinical lead and as appropriate to the
grade.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines, Bridging the Gap policies
and procedures and the overall framework of the Intensive Intervention and Risk
Management Service. To be accountable for own actions and decisions without
direct or day to day supervision or support.
To contribute to and help develop robust mechanisms for audit, data collection
and clinical governance.
To contribute to the development of psychological intervention skills and
knowledge within the Service and within Bridging the Gap.
To contribute to policy development and service development as appropriate to
the grade and in line with the standards set by the OPD Commissioners.
To ensure client records and other information systems are completed accurately
and within agreed timescales.
To ensure that support undertaken is meaningful, respectful, promotes self-determination and is in line with the individual formulation and Intervention plan.
To contribute to the achievement of annually set individual and team targets.
To participate in regular Line Management and Clinical supervision.
To support and contribute to a positive client-led service culture and philosophy.
To be involved in the development of training to partners involved in the OPD
Pathway.
To maintain accreditation with the appropriate professional body, i.e. HCPC,
attend Compassion Focused Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy training
and undergo training to deliver Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing.
Ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by
managing, processing, and safeguarding personal data in accordance with legal
requirements including conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs).
Person Specification
Approach & Values
Essential
- Demonstrate a good understanding of and active commitment to
- diversity, inclusion and anti-racism.
- Ability to build and maintain positive relationships while
- maintaining professional boundaries.
- Demonstrate a commitment to supporting clients to take an active
- role in shaping the services they receive.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters or Doctoral level training in clinical/forensic psychology,
- and accredited membership by the HCPC as a Practitioner
- Psychologist or holding post-graduate psychotherapy training with
- BACP or UKCP registration.
- Training should include models of psychopathology, psychological therapies, developmental psychology and an ability to assess and manage risk within a positive risk-taking framework
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in clinical supervision
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy to people
- presenting with a range of difficulties and clinical presentations.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients
- psychological care and treatment as an autonomous psychological
- therapist.
- Experience of work within a forensic setting.
Desirable
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
- Experience of working with individuals demonstrating personality
- difficulties, or traits associated with Personality Disorder in a
- forensic setting.
- Experience of providing teaching, training and/or clinical
- supervision.
- Experience evaluating clinical practice and participating in
- research and clinical audits.
- Experience of housing / homelessness/ offending or mental health
- either as a service user, carer, worker or volunteer
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Able to communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to
- clients
- Excellent verbal and written communication and IT skills, with a
- strong focus on accuracy, attention to detail, to effectively
- communicate in various ways to different stakeholders e.g. social
- media
- Able to self-manage, effectively plan and prioritise tasks and
- consistently deliver results.
- Creative, flexible and imaginative approach to working with people
- with complex profiles/personality difficulties/ a diagnosis of
- personality disorder.
- A good understanding of the principles of the OPD Pathway and
- IIRMS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group, criminal
- justice and mental health.
Desirable
- Hold a valid UK driving licence (or one permitting driving in the UK)
- and access to a vehicle for work purposes.
- Language skills (e.g., Urdu, BSL, etc.).
Person Specification
Approach & Values
Essential
- Demonstrate a good understanding of and active commitment to
- diversity, inclusion and anti-racism.
- Ability to build and maintain positive relationships while
- maintaining professional boundaries.
- Demonstrate a commitment to supporting clients to take an active
- role in shaping the services they receive.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters or Doctoral level training in clinical/forensic psychology,
- and accredited membership by the HCPC as a Practitioner
- Psychologist or holding post-graduate psychotherapy training with
- BACP or UKCP registration.
- Training should include models of psychopathology, psychological therapies, developmental psychology and an ability to assess and manage risk within a positive risk-taking framework
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in clinical supervision
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy to people
- presenting with a range of difficulties and clinical presentations.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients
- psychological care and treatment as an autonomous psychological
- therapist.
- Experience of work within a forensic setting.
Desirable
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
- Experience of working with individuals demonstrating personality
- difficulties, or traits associated with Personality Disorder in a
- forensic setting.
- Experience of providing teaching, training and/or clinical
- supervision.
- Experience evaluating clinical practice and participating in
- research and clinical audits.
- Experience of housing / homelessness/ offending or mental health
- either as a service user, carer, worker or volunteer
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Able to communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to
- clients
- Excellent verbal and written communication and IT skills, with a
- strong focus on accuracy, attention to detail, to effectively
- communicate in various ways to different stakeholders e.g. social
- media
- Able to self-manage, effectively plan and prioritise tasks and
- consistently deliver results.
- Creative, flexible and imaginative approach to working with people
- with complex profiles/personality difficulties/ a diagnosis of
- personality disorder.
- A good understanding of the principles of the OPD Pathway and
- IIRMS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group, criminal
- justice and mental health.
Desirable
- Hold a valid UK driving licence (or one permitting driving in the UK)
- and access to a vehicle for work purposes.
- Language skills (e.g., Urdu, BSL, etc.).
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
