Principal Psychological Therapist

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Health and Justice Services Directorate of CNWL NHS Foundation Trust is passionate about working with committed staff to provide an excellent service to those in prison, often a vulnerable and poorly served group.

We aim to deliver quality, patient-focused care and are recruiting to a new role; a highly motivated, innovative & enthusiastic Senior Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to join our expanding Mental Health Teams within the Surrey prisons. You should have a passion for working with people in custody, those who have experienced trauma and adversity and you should be able to work with enthusiasm with the staff teams and systems around them. This post will be within the female estate (0.6 wte) and will be based at HMP Bronzefield.

Psychologists and psychological therapists in H&J have excellent development opportunities, and an exciting career structure. High quality supervision and continuing professional development are integral to our approach and to our intent to support and retain an excellent team. Focused training which contributes to your own development and to our service need will be supported

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.

Leadership of psychological services within integrated mental healthcare teams.
Strategic oversight and leadership experience - strong communication skills.
Provision of psychological assessment, intervention and treatment for residents. Provision of advice and consultation to colleagues using psychological awareness. Working with complexity & delivering compassionate care in the context of risk and safety planning.
Clinical supervision and professional management of qualified psychologists & therapists. Passion for supporting and developing others and able to provide containment and clinical development.
The post will be supervised by a Consultant Psychologist and will be based in HMP Bronzefield. The post holder will provide psychological leadership and supervision responsibility within the prison mental health teams, attending weekly meetings and holding clinical caseloads. There may be occasional requests for travel to other sites for meetings & cover.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:

- Monthly supervision
- Annual personal development plans/appraisals
- Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.

Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:

- Preceptorship Programme
- Support and guidance with Revalidation
- Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies

Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:

- Health and wellbeing services
- Season ticket loans
- Cycle to work scheme
- Relocation package

The trust also values its staff and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.

All of our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.

Please see attached Job Description for the full lists of responsibilies

**Clinical**:
To develop psychological pathways, assessment processes and treatment interventions across all levels of our trauma informed pathways.
To liaise with other therapists within the mental health team, in third sector partner organisations and with other counselling providers within the prison to ensure robust referral pathways and appropriate division of cases.
To provide specialist psychological assessments to those referred to services based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients and others involved in the clients’ care.
To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health and personality problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups in the prison, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulatio

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