Psychological Therapist/Practitioner Psychologist - Health in Justice

Job summary

Your role will involve making a positive difference to the lives of people in prison at HMP Long Lartin.

This is a Category A men's prison in Worcestershire. You will be joining an integrated mental health and substance misuse team, who are passionate and dedicated to improving the psychological wellbeing of the population here. We are looking for someone who enjoys MDT working.

Part of your role will be to provide psychological therapy for mental health challenges as per the Stepped Care Model. This will be on an individual basis holding a caseload, as well as the delivery of group work. You will be supervised and supported by the incumbent Clinical Psychologist. Other parts of the role will involve providing consultation and formulation to colleagues, and facilitation of monthly reflective practice groups.

You will work with the Clinical Psychologist, Team Manager, and Psycho Social Lead to ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to psychologically informed ways of thinking about service users. There will be opportunities to develop and deliver training to the team as well. Other additional tasks and projects may include involvement in research, evaluation, and audit activity.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for HCPC registered practitioner (clinical, counselling, or forensic) psychologists or appropriately accredited (BABCP or core professional registration with e.g. NMC) psychological therapists who are passionate about social justice and reducing health inequalities.

Given the challenges of working in a prison environment, we are looking for people who have experience of working in a prison or other forensic setting, although this does not need to be as a registered practitioner. You will have experience of delivering assessments and evidence-based interventions.

You will enjoy working independently and have the skills to develop excellent working relationships with service users, and colleagues, including Partner Agencies. You will support the shared aims of Inclusion and HMPPS to work towards creating more trauma informed environments and services within prisons. The psychology team is very supportive and MPFT has lots of CPD and development opportunities.

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.

At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can we offer you:

• Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent
• The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
• Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programmes
• Innovative research training programme entitled STARS (Supporting the Advancement of Research Skills)
• NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes

and more.