Job summary
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We are seeking a motivated and skilled Band 7 Psychologist / Psychological Therapist / Psychotherapist to join our integrated mental health team across across HMP Belmarsh, a category A Prison located in South East London. The prison houses around 675 patients with a variety of needs include highly complex, and acute mental health.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established, dynamic, multidisciplinary team within a high-security forensic healthcare setting. The post holder will play a key role in strengthening the services capacity for autonomous clinical practice, contributing to the assessment, formulation, and delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions for a complex and high-risk population.
HoursTuesday - Thursday: 08:00 - 16:00
This position is part- time role working 3 days per week.
Salary
You'll receive a salary of up to £53,000 FTE per annum, depending on experience
How will we support you?
- Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
- Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
- Support from the wider Psychological Therapies team
- Support with ISW training
Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.
Main duties of the job
As a Psychologist / Psychological Therapist / Psychotherapist, your responsibilities will vary.
You will
- Deliver a range of psychological interventions to individuals with complex mental health needs, both on a one-to-one basis and in group settings
- Facilitate group interventions, including low-intensity coping skills groups and psychologically informed groups (e.g CFT and DBT-informed approaches)
- Undertake psychological assessments and develop shared formulations to inform care and treatment planning
- Contribute to multidisciplinary reviews and providing specialist psychological input into risk assessment and risk management
- Offer consultation and guidance to the wider multidisciplinary team to promote psychologically informed practice
The post holder will work closely with the Lead Psychologist, contributing to service development, clinical pathways, and the expansion of therapeutic provision. There will also be opportunities to support the development of group programmes and provide clinical guidance and supervision to junior staff, where appropriate.
If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.
About us
The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. Were the UKs leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.
Practice Plus Groups mission is Access to Excellence. Our core values are;
- we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
- we act with integrity
- we embrace diversity
- we strive to do things better together
Requirements- A doctoral qualification or equivalent in Clinical/Counselling Psychology, or postgraduate training in Psychotherapy
- Registration with the HCPC, or equivalent professional registration/accreditation for psychological therapists (e.g. UKCP or BPC)
- Experience working with individuals with complex mental health needs, ideally within forensic, secure, or other high-risk settings
- Experience delivering group and 1:1 intervention using a range of therapeutic modalities (e.g. CBT, DBT, EMDR)
- Confidence in working across therapeutic models, and applying trauma-informed approaches
Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you're looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will include
conducting comprehensive psychological assessments, providing therapeutic
interventions, developing individualized treatment plans to address the mental
health needs of remanded individuals and supporting the embedding of a Trauma
Informed approach to patient care. By collaborating with multidisciplinary
teams including healthcare and prison colleagues, this role will contribute to
the overall wellbeing of men in prison, support their emotional resilience
during this transitional period, and facilitate access to necessary resources
and support systems to promote better outcomes both during incarceration and
post-release.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical -
- Identify patients
who may benefit from psychological intervention, following mental health
triages and in discussion with the multi-disciplinary team and, where demand
exceeds capacity, prioritise according to clinical need, risk presentation and
release planning in line with agreed service policy;
- Provide comprehensive psychological
assessment, including risk assessment, and develop psychological formulations
to support patients and other members of the MDT in making sense of their
difficulties; contribute, where appropriate, to Mother & Baby board
reviews;
- Identify and deliver appropriate individual
and group interventions to patients in line with the Psychological Therapies
Service (PTS) pathways;
- To monitor
and evaluate psychological interventions using appropriate measures;
- To maintain
accurate clinical records and keep the PTS dashboard up to date with outcomes
data for patient/service and staff outcomes;
- To
communicate both verbally and written, highly complex information concerning
assessment, formulation and intervention plans to patients, professional
colleagues and external agencies, as appropriate;
- Manage
resources appropriately.
- Identify and
provide opportunities for other members of the multi-disciplinary team to gain
understanding of how psychological knowledge can support their work with patients,
through developing psychological formulations with team members, participating
in multi-disciplinary meetings and decision making or other opportunities for
providing consultancy and advice;
-
To attend ACCT reviews and segregation reviews in the prison
as appropriate and to offer psychological opinion about management and appropriate
referrals in that context and, offer psychological understanding into CSIP
plans to support management of patients within the wing by prison staff;
- In liaison
with the Mental Leads and/or Heads of Healthcare, identify and deliver
opportunities for staff learning and reflection, through reflective practice,
debrief and training sessions.
- In liaison
with Mental Leads and/or Heads of Healthcare and the National head of Psychological
Therapies, identify opportunities for and conduct service development projects
in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team;
- Participate
in and contribute to CPD and peer supervision within the wider healthcare team;
- Active
engagement in appropriate practice supervision and keep a log of evidence of
core competencies in line with agreed preceptorship plan.
Teaching, training and supervision
- To provide
regular reflective practice sessions to the mental health team and other ad-hoc
opportunities for reflection on practice, including individual or group
debriefing following incidents;
- To provide
training to other members of the multidisciplinary team in the delivery of trauma
and psychologically informed care and treatment;
- To contribute
to CPD and peer supervision sessions within the wider PTS team;
- To receive
regular clinical supervision from an appropriately qualified and experienced supervisor,
in accordance with the BPS and the HCPC guidelines and, where appropriate, from
other senior professional colleagues
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
- To participate in multi-disciplinary
meetings concerned with the delivery and development of clinical services and
contribute a psychological perspective as appropriate;
- To advise the
Mental Health lead and/or Heads of Healthcare on those aspects of the service
where psychological matters need addressing in line with best practice and
service objectives;
- To contribute
to proposals for and implementation of policy and service development changes
in relation to psychology and psychological therapies within the service
Research, service evaluation & audit
- To utilise
theory, evidence based literature and research to support evidence based
practice in individual/ group work and work with other team members;
- To contribute
to project management, including complex audit, research and service evaluation
projects, with colleagues within the service, to help develop service
provision
Professional -
- To attend regional
and national Psychological Therapies meetings, service development and other
relevant meetings regularly;
- To adhere to
professional/accrediting body codes of conduct, policies and procedures (e.g.
HCPC, BABCP, BPS);
- To be aware
of, adhere to, and where appropriate, contribute to the formulation and review
of Practice Plus Group policies and procedures;
- To maintain
and develop high standards of psychology/psychological therapy practice by
engaging in continuing professional development and co-operative
working/networking with therapists, clinical, counselling and forensic
psychologist colleagues;
- To receive
regular line management supervision by the Head of Healthcare
- To
participate in the organisations annual performance review and personal
development planning process with the clinical supervisor and line manager;
- To keep up to date with legislation,
national directives, policies and NICE guidelines in relation to the work
delivered.
Other
This Job
Description is not exhaustive and may change as the post develops, but such
change will not take place without consultation between the post holder and
their manager. Job descriptions should be reviewed at least annually at the
appraisal meeting.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will include
conducting comprehensive psychological assessments, providing therapeutic
interventions, developing individualized treatment plans to address the mental
health needs of remanded individuals and supporting the embedding of a Trauma
Informed approach to patient care. By collaborating with multidisciplinary
teams including healthcare and prison colleagues, this role will contribute to
the overall wellbeing of men in prison, support their emotional resilience
during this transitional period, and facilitate access to necessary resources
and support systems to promote better outcomes both during incarceration and
post-release.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical -
- Identify patients
who may benefit from psychological intervention, following mental health
triages and in discussion with the multi-disciplinary team and, where demand
exceeds capacity, prioritise according to clinical need, risk presentation and
release planning in line with agreed service policy;
- Provide comprehensive psychological
assessment, including risk assessment, and develop psychological formulations
to support patients and other members of the MDT in making sense of their
difficulties; contribute, where appropriate, to Mother & Baby board
reviews;
- Identify and deliver appropriate individual
and group interventions to patients in line with the Psychological Therapies
Service (PTS) pathways;
- To monitor
and evaluate psychological interventions using appropriate measures;
- To maintain
accurate clinical records and keep the PTS dashboard up to date with outcomes
data for patient/service and staff outcomes;
- To
communicate both verbally and written, highly complex information concerning
assessment, formulation and intervention plans to patients, professional
colleagues and external agencies, as appropriate;
- Manage
resources appropriately.
- Identify and
provide opportunities for other members of the multi-disciplinary team to gain
understanding of how psychological knowledge can support their work with patients,
through developing psychological formulations with team members, participating
in multi-disciplinary meetings and decision making or other opportunities for
providing consultancy and advice;
-
To attend ACCT reviews and segregation reviews in the prison
as appropriate and to offer psychological opinion about management and appropriate
referrals in that context and, offer psychological understanding into CSIP
plans to support management of patients within the wing by prison staff;
- In liaison
with the Mental Leads and/or Heads of Healthcare, identify and deliver
opportunities for staff learning and reflection, through reflective practice,
debrief and training sessions.
- In liaison
with Mental Leads and/or Heads of Healthcare and the National head of Psychological
Therapies, identify opportunities for and conduct service development projects
in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team;
- Participate
in and contribute to CPD and peer supervision within the wider healthcare team;
- Active
engagement in appropriate practice supervision and keep a log of evidence of
core competencies in line with agreed preceptorship plan.
Teaching, training and supervision
- To provide
regular reflective practice sessions to the mental health team and other ad-hoc
opportunities for reflection on practice, including individual or group
debriefing following incidents;
- To provide
training to other members of the multidisciplinary team in the delivery of trauma
and psychologically informed care and treatment;
- To contribute
to CPD and peer supervision sessions within the wider PTS team;
- To receive
regular clinical supervision from an appropriately qualified and experienced supervisor,
in accordance with the BPS and the HCPC guidelines and, where appropriate, from
other senior professional colleagues
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
- To participate in multi-disciplinary
meetings concerned with the delivery and development of clinical services and
contribute a psychological perspective as appropriate;
- To advise the
Mental Health lead and/or Heads of Healthcare on those aspects of the service
where psychological matters need addressing in line with best practice and
service objectives;
- To contribute
to proposals for and implementation of policy and service development changes
in relation to psychology and psychological therapies within the service
Research, service evaluation & audit
- To utilise
theory, evidence based literature and research to support evidence based
practice in individual/ group work and work with other team members;
- To contribute
to project management, including complex audit, research and service evaluation
projects, with colleagues within the service, to help develop service
provision
Professional -
- To attend regional
and national Psychological Therapies meetings, service development and other
relevant meetings regularly;
- To adhere to
professional/accrediting body codes of conduct, policies and procedures (e.g.
HCPC, BABCP, BPS);
- To be aware
of, adhere to, and where appropriate, contribute to the formulation and review
of Practice Plus Group policies and procedures;
- To maintain
and develop high standards of psychology/psychological therapy practice by
engaging in continuing professional development and co-operative
working/networking with therapists, clinical, counselling and forensic
psychologist colleagues;
- To receive
regular line management supervision by the Head of Healthcare
- To
participate in the organisations annual performance review and personal
development planning process with the clinical supervisor and line manager;
- To keep up to date with legislation,
national directives, policies and NICE guidelines in relation to the work
delivered.
Other
This Job
Description is not exhaustive and may change as the post develops, but such
change will not take place without consultation between the post holder and
their manager. Job descriptions should be reviewed at least annually at the
appraisal meeting.
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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
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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).
