Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Criminal Justice & Liaison & Diversion (CJLD) service, creating a position for an Assistant Psychologist to join the team. The role will be working across CJLD with a focus on the Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) pathway along with colleagues in the Probation and Courts Service.
CJLD is intended to improve the health and justice outcomes for adults and children who come into contact with the youth and criminal justice systems where a range of complex needs are identified as factors in their offending behaviour. CJLD is developed to be integrated with the whole range of justice and health, social and voluntary support agencies and take awareness of a range of inter-related projects and programmes and developing initiatives.
MHTR is one of three treatment options available to the court when considering sentencing options. MHTR is designed to help people who experience mental health difficulties and is an opportunity for someone to engage with treatment while still receiving a sentence: a form of diversion within, rather than away from, the criminal justice system but outside custody. This treatment will be delivered by the MHTR pathway, under the direction of the Clinical Psychologist. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of and develop an inclusive, psychologically led service providing psychosocial interventions as part of court ordered community sentences.
Main duties of the job
You will join a dedicated team who make a difference to patients, carers and the teams you work with. You will contribute to the effective running of MHTR pathway by being a motivated and supportive team member. You will deliver evidence-based assessment and intervention and will support the patient's recovery journey. You will show a good balance of initiation and seeking support and direction.
For MHTR this will mean working with agreed case formulations and plans of care, ensuring models of psychological intervention delivered is evidence based and relevant. Liaison and development and maintenance of robust relationships with partner agencies and involvement in overall CSTR process evaluation and development is key therefore ability to work collaboratively is essential.
As this part of the service is in development, there will be a great opportunity under the guidance and supervision of the clinical psychologist to be part of developing this pathway in directing and enabling new ways of working, which cut across traditional professional and cultural boundaries and developing relationships with key internal and external partners.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for more detail. Summary below:
To accept referrals in connection with the MHTR (Mental Health Treatment Requirement) pathway using agreed service protocols and undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological tests, including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, and others involved in the clients care, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist.
To write summary treatment reports for the service regarding service user treatment outcomes.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients problems, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist.
To collate and report audit data to meet the audit requirements of the service.
To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
To work in partnership with other agencies associated with the delivery of the MHTR and to attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for more detail. Summary below:
To accept referrals in connection with the MHTR (Mental Health Treatment Requirement) pathway using agreed service protocols and undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological tests, including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, and others involved in the clients care, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist.
To write summary treatment reports for the service regarding service user treatment outcomes.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients problems, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist.
To collate and report audit data to meet the audit requirements of the service.
To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
To work in partnership with other agencies associated with the delivery of the MHTR and to attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours Degree (minimum 2:1) in Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society
- Entitlement to register with BPS
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist/Research assistant
- Experience of applying psychology in direct work with others
- Experience of using supervision
- Experience of working with people that may at times have the potential to respond to staff with hostility and aggression and being able to respond to hostility and aggression in a professional manner.
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in reports, letters and other health correspondence to clients and their referrers
- Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context
- Ability to communicate with staff and service users at all ability levels
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users who are involved in the Criminal Justice System, including people who may have committed violent and / or sexual offences
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours Degree (minimum 2:1) in Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society
- Entitlement to register with BPS
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist/Research assistant
- Experience of applying psychology in direct work with others
- Experience of using supervision
- Experience of working with people that may at times have the potential to respond to staff with hostility and aggression and being able to respond to hostility and aggression in a professional manner.
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in reports, letters and other health correspondence to clients and their referrers
- Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context
- Ability to communicate with staff and service users at all ability levels
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users who are involved in the Criminal Justice System, including people who may have committed violent and / or sexual offences
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).
