Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Addictions Counsellor (Band 6, 0.6 WTE, permanent contract) based at The Hellingly Centre, which is part of Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Forensic Healthcare Service. Our service has developed the Secure Recovery model of care which provides the framework to support service users in their pathway through inpatient services and back to life in the community.
We are looking for someone who is committed to the provision of excellent evidence-based clinical interventions in a forensic setting. You will join dedicated multidisciplinary inpatient teams and a friendly Psychological Professionals (PP) team. The PP team prides itself in being highly supportive, with regular opportunities to think together in team meetings, reflective practice and team days.
You will receive a comprehensive induction, regular supervision, opportunities to shadow or co-work, and opportunities for training.
Main duties of the job
As part of our experienced psychological therapies team, you will accept referrals from all four of our wards, for assessment, individual intervention and for the substance use treatment programme. You will work alongside an experienced addictions counsellor in providing the addictions provision to the Hellingly centre. There is the opportunity to work flexibly with different service user groups and the opportunity to practise in your therapeutic specialism. You will work autonomously with individuals and also co-facilitate on the groupwork programme. You will contribute to complex assessments of mental health need and risk/offending behaviours, and develop formulations of need and risk. You will contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings and discussions bringing a substance misuse perspective. There is the opportunity for innovation and developing areas of particular interest.
About us
We have a thriving, well-funded, friendly and highly skilled psychological professions department. We strive toward compassionate leadership and flexible support. We offer the opportunity to train in, and deliver the very best psychological therapies, in a safe therapeutic environment, with a challenging and often traumatised and marginalised client group.
The Hellingly Centre is a low and medium secure unit for people between the ages of 18-65 who have mental health problems and who have become involved with the criminal justice system. We offer assessment and treatment for people whose conditions cannot safely be treated other than in a secure or supervised environment. There are three medium secure inpatient wards and one low secure ward, housed in a recently built unit in the beautiful surroundings of the Sussex countryside.
Proximity to the South Downs, the sea, the vibrant city of Brighton and Hove whilst only an hour train ride from London!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
- To work as a member of the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist psychological therapy service to clients, their families or carers.
Scope and Authority:
- To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychological therapy service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams as appropriate, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.
- To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
- To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
Key knowledge and skills:
- Qualified and accredited in delivery of a specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment) and professionally registered.
- Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care and NHS settings.
- Experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
- Good inter-personal and inter-professional skills and ability to work autonomously as a single discipline practitioner in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- A capacity to reflect upon the therapeutic process and upon ones own part in it.
- Ability to use electronic clinical record systems.
- Ability to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances and take care of own well-being on a very regular and frequent basis.
- Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust.
Please see the job description for full details of duties, responsibilities and requirements.
For further information or to talk about the post please call 0300 304 0818 and ask to speak to Jane Roberts, Consultant Forensic Psychologist, or Andy Cook, Consultant Clinical Psychologist (or email jane.roberts@spft.nhs.uk or andy.cook@spft.nhs.uk).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
- To work as a member of the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist psychological therapy service to clients, their families or carers.
Scope and Authority:
- To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychological therapy service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams as appropriate, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.
- To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
- To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
Key knowledge and skills:
- Qualified and accredited in delivery of a specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment) and professionally registered.
- Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care and NHS settings.
- Experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
- Good inter-personal and inter-professional skills and ability to work autonomously as a single discipline practitioner in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- A capacity to reflect upon the therapeutic process and upon ones own part in it.
- Ability to use electronic clinical record systems.
- Ability to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances and take care of own well-being on a very regular and frequent basis.
- Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust.
Please see the job description for full details of duties, responsibilities and requirements.
For further information or to talk about the post please call 0300 304 0818 and ask to speak to Jane Roberts, Consultant Forensic Psychologist, or Andy Cook, Consultant Clinical Psychologist (or email jane.roberts@spft.nhs.uk or andy.cook@spft.nhs.uk).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised professional training in a psychological therapy as specified in the appendix
- Professionally registered as specified in the Appendix
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Qualified and accredited in delivery of a specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), across a range of presenting problems maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Demonstrable competence in the delivery of a psychological therapy and a track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
- Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care and NHS settings
- Experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
- Knowledge of the theory, practice and evidence base of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, 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 commitment to continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the appendix
- An ability to work drawing on the evidence base for effective interventions beyond a single model of therapy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised professional training in a psychological therapy as specified in the appendix
- Professionally registered as specified in the Appendix
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Qualified and accredited in delivery of a specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), across a range of presenting problems maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Demonstrable competence in the delivery of a psychological therapy and a track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
- Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care and NHS settings
- Experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
- Knowledge of the theory, practice and evidence base of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, 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 commitment to continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the appendix
- An ability to work drawing on the evidence base for effective interventions beyond a single model of therapy
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).
