Pipe Service Clinical Lead

**PIPE Service Clinical Lead**:
**Band 8a**:
**Main area**
- Clinical psychologist
- **Grade**
- Band 8a
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time
- Flexible working

30 hours per week (Additional hours available in the HVLS service to make up HTE post if desired)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-046-A**Site**
- Bodmin Police Hub
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £48,526 - £54,619 Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
In 2012 the Cornwall Centre for Mental Health and Justice evolved from the Community Forensic Mental Health Team (CFMHT), one of the longest established CFMHT’s in England. The Centre is based on the top floor of Cornwall Police Headquarters in Bodmin, ensuring high levels of sustainable partnership working with other Criminal Justice Agencies across Devon and Cornwall. The Police HQ is a vibrant and positive working environment, encouraging the best of collaborative partnership working. In 2019 further service developments were commissioned and we now provide the Intensive Integrated Risk Management Service (IIRMS) to complement the OPD pathway

**Main duties of the job**:
We are now developing a PIPE in our Approved Premises in Plymouth. The PIPE model works within the whole hostel: staff, residents and all its functions, to develop an enhanced psychologically and socially informed approach to the creation and operation of the hostel environment. The Specialist (8A) Psychologist will be the Clinical Lead and will be jointly responsible for the development of the Approved Premises as a PIPE along with the hostel manager. The Psychologist will lead on developing the relational approach to working with residents through individual and group clinical supervision, staff training, reflective practice groups and developing groupwork and management of group dynamics.

The work of the Centre is challenging and interesting, calling on the full breadth of a Forensic or Clinical Psychologists skillset. We regularly attract students and trainees of all disciplines, as well as interns. The Centre has become the hub for a set of supportive and productive working relationships across Police, Probation and other Public Protection partners. The successful applicant will be joining a community of staff who are enthusiastic, mutually supportive and effective.

The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the wide range of activities of the Centre, including service evaluation projects, service development, CPD and Multi-Agency Public Protection work.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We a