Job summary
Hampshire & IoW Healthcare are taking active part in an exciting and pioneering 2 year research project. It is a National Multisite Randomised Control Trial (RCT) run by Oxford Health, investigating the effect of Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) for children and adolescents. Potential research subjects will have generated concern about violence and aggression and will have been referred to Community Forensic CAMHS. The opportunity is unprecedented and important. We are collaborating with University College London, the University of Hertfordshire and colleagues across England.
Ours is a cohort of children traditionally not offered talking therapy. The FCAMHS MBT trial will be a national first large-scale investigation to see if one form of talking therapy can help reduce risks of violence and aggression in individuals referred to the team.
Applications are invited for a Band 8a post devoted to the 2-year study as part of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Regional Forensic CAMHS team. As well as being a member of the team providing core business such as consultations and training, you will be trained in MBT tailored to the needs of children supported by Forensic CAMHS, and supported to develop towards becoming an Accredited Mentalization Based Therapist. You will also co-ordinate the data collection and submission for the RCT.
Main duties of the job
As part of the local FCAMHS team, the post holder will contribute to managing the health and wellbeing of children and young people with forensic needs by providing expert clinical consultancy, supervision, formulation, training/education, assessment and intervention in collaboration with and in support of referring agencies.
Specifically, the post holder will facilitate the local FCAMHS involvement with a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) of Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) including:
-Supporting the recruitment of participants for the RCT
-Training in and delivering MBT to participants
-Monitoring own and colleagues' adherence to the RCT protocol
-Gathering and reporting data for the RCT
-Recruiting then supervising the RCT's Assistant Psychologist
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology plus HCPC registration
- Or
- Registered Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Or
- RMN, Dip SW, Dip OT or BSc OT plus accreditation with an appropriate psychological therapy organisation (eg. BABCP, UKCP, ACAT)
- Or
- Qualification from High Intensity IAPT Course (PG Dip) with additional modality training in an interpersonal approach eg. CAT, IPT, CCC
Desirable
- Training & qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Attendance at specialist short/longer courses relevant to the post (eg. MBT or DBT, Trauma Informed Care, CAT, CCC, Group Approaches)
- Recognised post qualification training in clinical supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience in mental health after completing qualification.
- Substantial post-qualification / accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation, and treatment), maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
- A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy, ideally including with the client group served by the post, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy.
- Experience of specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings and client groups including both adults and children.
- Experience of offering teaching, training, and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
- A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision.
- Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context.
- Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
- Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
- A high-level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy, as applied to the client group using this service.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration / accrediting body.
- Experience of conducting formal research, audit, or service evaluation in a healthcare setting
- Post graduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis as practiced within clinical practice settings.
- Experience and demonstrated effectiveness in working with the full range of clinical severity served by the service.
- Experience of the application of Psychological Therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy for specific difficult to treat groups served by the service (e.g. complex comorbidity, physical health problems or disability etc.).
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings and client groups including both adults and children.
- Experience of supervising therapies trainees.
- Experience of working with health practitioners / volunteers.
- Experience of delivering group interventions.
- Lived experience of mental health issues.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Communication / Relationship skills
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Proven ability to establish, maintain and conclude therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Good inter-personal and inter-professional skills and ability to work autonomously as a single discipline practitioner in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- Analytical & Judgement skills
- Ability to use and to understand the results of questionnaires commonly utilized by clinical services, with adaptability and openness to learning to use new ones.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A capacity to reflect upon the therapeutic process and upon one's own part in it.
- An ability to make effective use of clinical supervision and to utilise these skills in contributing to clinical consultation within the team and to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Planning & Organisational skills
- Ability to work within a large geographical area effectively, managing travel arrangements and using creative working solutions.
- Ability to plan and manage a complex workload with competing demands.
- Ability to plan and implement projects.
- Ability to assist or take a lead in specific service development projects.
- People Management / Leadership / Resources
- Skills in clinical supervision of others.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to supervise and support psychological therapists in the locality, undertaking appraisals and managing and supporting staff as and where appropriate.
- IT skills
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to use electronic clinical record systems.
- Experience of software packages.
- Physical skills
- Ability to use a keyboard / computer.
- Able to carry out PMVA physical interventions.
- Mental Effort
- Ability to maintain sustained concentration over considerable time and to be able to manage a high number of competing work demands such as clinical work, meetings, as well as trial-related and organisational targets.
- Ability to meet competing deadlines.
- Emotional Effort
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours on a regular basis.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances and take care of own well- being on a very regular and frequent basis
- Working Conditions
- Ability to manage exposure to upsetting, distressing or challenging behaviours.
- Ability to be able to use a PC.
- Ability to manage a working environment that includes flexible working across a range of venues and locations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology plus HCPC registration
- Or
- Registered Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Or
- RMN, Dip SW, Dip OT or BSc OT plus accreditation with an appropriate psychological therapy organisation (eg. BABCP, UKCP, ACAT)
- Or
- Qualification from High Intensity IAPT Course (PG Dip) with additional modality training in an interpersonal approach eg. CAT, IPT, CCC
Desirable
- Training & qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Attendance at specialist short/longer courses relevant to the post (eg. MBT or DBT, Trauma Informed Care, CAT, CCC, Group Approaches)
- Recognised post qualification training in clinical supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience in mental health after completing qualification.
- Substantial post-qualification / accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation, and treatment), maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
- A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy, ideally including with the client group served by the post, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy.
- Experience of specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings and client groups including both adults and children.
- Experience of offering teaching, training, and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
- A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision.
- Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context.
- Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
- Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
- A high-level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy, as applied to the client group using this service.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration / accrediting body.
- Experience of conducting formal research, audit, or service evaluation in a healthcare setting
- Post graduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis as practiced within clinical practice settings.
- Experience and demonstrated effectiveness in working with the full range of clinical severity served by the service.
- Experience of the application of Psychological Therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy for specific difficult to treat groups served by the service (e.g. complex comorbidity, physical health problems or disability etc.).
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings and client groups including both adults and children.
- Experience of supervising therapies trainees.
- Experience of working with health practitioners / volunteers.
- Experience of delivering group interventions.
- Lived experience of mental health issues.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Communication / Relationship skills
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Proven ability to establish, maintain and conclude therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Good inter-personal and inter-professional skills and ability to work autonomously as a single discipline practitioner in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- Analytical & Judgement skills
- Ability to use and to understand the results of questionnaires commonly utilized by clinical services, with adaptability and openness to learning to use new ones.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A capacity to reflect upon the therapeutic process and upon one's own part in it.
- An ability to make effective use of clinical supervision and to utilise these skills in contributing to clinical consultation within the team and to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Planning & Organisational skills
- Ability to work within a large geographical area effectively, managing travel arrangements and using creative working solutions.
- Ability to plan and manage a complex workload with competing demands.
- Ability to plan and implement projects.
- Ability to assist or take a lead in specific service development projects.
- People Management / Leadership / Resources
- Skills in clinical supervision of others.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to supervise and support psychological therapists in the locality, undertaking appraisals and managing and supporting staff as and where appropriate.
- IT skills
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to use electronic clinical record systems.
- Experience of software packages.
- Physical skills
- Ability to use a keyboard / computer.
- Able to carry out PMVA physical interventions.
- Mental Effort
- Ability to maintain sustained concentration over considerable time and to be able to manage a high number of competing work demands such as clinical work, meetings, as well as trial-related and organisational targets.
- Ability to meet competing deadlines.
- Emotional Effort
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours on a regular basis.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances and take care of own well- being on a very regular and frequent basis
- Working Conditions
- Ability to manage exposure to upsetting, distressing or challenging behaviours.
- Ability to be able to use a PC.
- Ability to manage a working environment that includes flexible working across a range of venues and locations.
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).
