Job summary
To support and enhance the psychological care of adults across the Wellbeing Service in HMYOI Feltham. This includes providing mental health assessment and interventions under the supervision of a qualified psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist, and within the overall REFRESHED framework.
Main duties of the job
- To participate in clinical governance and utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the multi-disciplinary team
- To undertake clinically-related administration and project work
- To provide assessments and mental health interventions to clients under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist
- To work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the clinic's policies and procedures
- To liaise with other professional services (OMU, Probation services, CAMHS/CMHTs, Social Care) sharing information where appropriate
- To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
About us
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providingtop quality caredepends on our ability to employ the best people.We're always looking torecruit outstanding peoplewho will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With adiverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To support psychologists in the assessment of adults within HMYOI Feltham. This may include using self-report measures, risk assessment, rating scales, direct and indirect observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. Assessments will involve making judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options, as well as requiring prolonged concentration
- To work in a highly emotive atmosphere with clients with offending histories and / or mental health problems on a regular basis, and be able to communicate sensitive and complex information, whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times
- To attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings
- To support psychologists in preparing for and conducting psychological interventions, both group and individual. To co-facilitate groups with both psychology and non-psychology colleagues when appropriate
- To work closely with senior colleagues to ensure information in relation to risk is collected and communicated sensitively and comprehensively
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording
- To attend and contribute to other prison meetings, and to present the view of Mental Health Team for relevant clinical issues. To ensure any actions taken from these meetings are met or that the appropriate individual to carry out the action is informed
- To ensure that efficient pathways of care are being created for the clients, including collecting collateral information for new clients and making appropriate referrals into the community when they are approaching discharge
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific patient group and mental health.
- To ensure that all aspects of professional activity (e.g. communication with patients, 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To support psychologists in the assessment of adults within HMYOI Feltham. This may include using self-report measures, risk assessment, rating scales, direct and indirect observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. Assessments will involve making judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options, as well as requiring prolonged concentration
- To work in a highly emotive atmosphere with clients with offending histories and / or mental health problems on a regular basis, and be able to communicate sensitive and complex information, whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times
- To attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings
- To support psychologists in preparing for and conducting psychological interventions, both group and individual. To co-facilitate groups with both psychology and non-psychology colleagues when appropriate
- To work closely with senior colleagues to ensure information in relation to risk is collected and communicated sensitively and comprehensively
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording
- To attend and contribute to other prison meetings, and to present the view of Mental Health Team for relevant clinical issues. To ensure any actions taken from these meetings are met or that the appropriate individual to carry out the action is informed
- To ensure that efficient pathways of care are being created for the clients, including collecting collateral information for new clients and making appropriate referrals into the community when they are approaching discharge
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific patient group and mental health.
- To ensure that all aspects of professional activity (e.g. communication with patients, 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.
Person Specification
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or offending behaviour problems and/or other disabilities
Desirable
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision.
- Experience of working in prisons or secure settings.
- Experience of co-facilitating psychosocial groups.
- Experience of working within a team.
- Experience of using computers for databases or data-analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Achieved or working towards an upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology Achieved or working towards entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
- Achieved or working towards entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Further training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Essential
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses service user's particular needs.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
- Experience using IT for databases or data-analysis.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- An ability to establish and sustain engagement with people who have mental health problems and severely challenging behaviours including violence and sexually harmful behaviours.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Knowledge of our business and how it supports patient care.
Desirable
- An interest in working with people with forensic histories, mental health problems.
Other
Essential
- Ability to accept and use clinical supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Ability to work in a secure environment, in line with HMPS policy and procedure - to obtain and maintain enhanced security clearance.
- Application must be clearly tailored to the post and Person Specification
Desirable
- An intention to pursue a career in Clinical/Forensic/ Counselling Psychology
Person Specification
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or offending behaviour problems and/or other disabilities
Desirable
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision.
- Experience of working in prisons or secure settings.
- Experience of co-facilitating psychosocial groups.
- Experience of working within a team.
- Experience of using computers for databases or data-analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Achieved or working towards an upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology Achieved or working towards entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
- Achieved or working towards entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Further training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Essential
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses service user's particular needs.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
- Experience using IT for databases or data-analysis.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- An ability to establish and sustain engagement with people who have mental health problems and severely challenging behaviours including violence and sexually harmful behaviours.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Knowledge of our business and how it supports patient care.
Desirable
- An interest in working with people with forensic histories, mental health problems.
Other
Essential
- Ability to accept and use clinical supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Ability to work in a secure environment, in line with HMPS policy and procedure - to obtain and maintain enhanced security clearance.
- Application must be clearly tailored to the post and Person Specification
Desirable
- An intention to pursue a career in Clinical/Forensic/ Counselling Psychology
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).
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).
