Clinical Lead

Clinical Lead Go back Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust The closing date is 29 December 2025 The Inspires service is part of the national Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and comprises of 4 services within HMP Swinfen Hall: a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE), a residential treatment (Delta Enabling Environment), a non-residential treatment service (NRTS) and an Enhanced Support Service (ESS) working with service users housed across the prison. Our service users, who are aged between 18 and 28, have histories of trauma and complex presentations. We are looking for 2 Clinical Leads for our residential treatment Service (DEE) and our PIPE services. Our treatment service provides long term psychological interventions for 30 service users who reside on a dedicated prison wing. Our PIPE service provides a psychologically informed environment to support prisoners who are either accessing psychological intervention or have recently completed psychological interventions. This is an exciting opportunity for two experienced Psychologists or Psychotherapists to lead a successful, and innovative service working with young adults in prison. The successful candidate will join a large, multi-disciplinary team providing outstanding opportunities for professional development. You will also benefit from being part of NHFT's Specialist and Secured Services Psychology network. Main duties of the job Your role will involve: Clinical responsibility for all aspects of the service Delivering person centred interventions to young adults in prison Providing clinical supervision and reflective practice for the team Consultation and advice for prison staff Service evaluation and development The services utilise a relational approach and a flexible, person-centred model to meet the needs of individual service users. The team is multi-disciplinary, comprising of psychology, psychotherapy, occupational therapy and creative therapy. You will be expected to provide clinical supervision to the team. This will include contributing to the reflective practice, training and critical thinking of the team and in meetings for service improvement. You will also need to be able to provide core psychological and therapeutic interventions in line with trauma informed care. In doing so, you will be responsible for adhering to relevant service Operational Procedures and Trust policies along with professional ethics and standards. About us NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth. Job responsibilities For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document. Person Specification Application form Registration as Psychologist or Psychotherapist Experience of working in prisons Experience of supervising a range of staff, clinical and operational (prison staff) Experience as a Senior Psychologist/ Psychotherapist (8a) Experience in working with young adultsExperience and trained to deliver 2 specialist psychological therapies eg. CFT, EMDR, DBT, MBT Application Experience providing psychological consultancy within organisations Expertise working with trauma Expertise in working with challenging behaviour 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr