Psychological Therapist

4 weeks ago

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

**Job Summary**:

- To provide a comprehensive, specialist psychologically informed service to service users of the LPP Offender Personality Disorder Service
- To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
- To provide training, advice and consultation to other staff about the psychological needs of the service users.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within LPP.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures.
- To support the team and LPP.

London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering a pan-London Integrated Community Pathway Service (ICS) for the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway alongside National Probation Service (NPS) colleagues.

The provision of the pathway in the North West Quadrant of LPP is a partnership between BEH and CNWL NHS trusts.

The OPD Pathway programme provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to the multi-agency professionals working with them. LPP also co-delivers OPD services in four prisons in partnership with HM Prison Service staff. The ICPS delivers consultation, training and joint casework to the NPS, and case management and therapeutic interventions to service users.

Clinical
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients, 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, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate, implement and provide ongoing oversight of plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
7. To facilitate cross
- and multi-agency meetings and to offer psychological opinion about clinical risk management and subsequent intervention pathways.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni
- and multi-disciplinary care.
11. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording, and report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance, in accordance with professional codes of practice of required professional accrediting body, and Trust policies and procedures.
12. To work innovatively and in conjunction with colleagues (both LPP and probation staff) to develop appropriate, evidence based and effective services for those on the OPD pathway.

Teaching, training, and supervision
1. To receive regular clinical supervision from a suitably qualified and experienced psychological therapist and, where appropriate, other professional colleagues.
2. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work, as appropriate.
3. To provide professional and clinical supervision of Band 6 psychological therapists, assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee psychologists and psychological therapists.
4. To contribute to the pre
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