Clinical Lead

We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic Applied Psychologist to work in South Staffordshire, to deliver an OPD service for people with complex personality difficulties in the justice system.

You will be joining a team that includes a Senior Probation Officer, Specialist Probation Practitioner, and an Assistant Psychologist. You will be responsible for providing clinical leadership for the South Staffordshire OPD service, leading on case identification, case con sultation and formulation, workforce development and joint casework. Through these clinical activities, you will support Probation Service staff to work with complex, high-risk people on probation with trauma histories and personality difficulties, in a psychologically informed way, with the aim of building robust therapeutic relationships, increasing engagement, and reducing the risk of future harm to self and others.

You will be joining an established and friendly group of OPD Clinical Leads, for whom clinical supervision, peer support and continuing professional development are an integral part of clinical practice.

You will be responsible for providing clinical leadership for the South Staffordshire OPD service, leading on case identification, case consultation and formulation, workforce development and joint casework. Through these clinical activities, you will support Probation Service staff to work with complex, high-risk people on probation with trauma histories and personality difficulties, in a psychologically informed way, with the aim of building therapeutic relationships, increasing engagement, and reducing the risk of future harm to self and others.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
Supporting your career development and progression

Excellent NHS Pension scheme

Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Options for flexible working

Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave

Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources

If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients

Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate

Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates

Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k

Free car parking at all trust sites

Free flu vaccinations every year

Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Clinical
- To work with service users and staff of the Probation Service within Probation Service premises including local area offices and Approved Premises. To work with service users and other professionals in community settings, mainly Probation Delivery Units. To work with service users and staff in institutional settings including prisons, special hospitals and other secure facilities.

Working within a highly specialised clinical field to deliver case consultations that help Probation staff understand an individual’s behaviour, presentation and problems. To deliver case consultations using a psychological framework to develop a provisional hypothesis or theory about the onset, motivation and maintenance factors in relation to the Person on Probation’s behaviour and functioning. To deliver consultations that help Probation Service staff to predict how an individual will respond to sentencing, treatment and management plans, and provide a rationale for the sequence and dosage of treatment across the entire OPD pathway.

Working within a highly specialised clinical field to develop case formulations in specific cases in order to help Probation staff develop a deeper understanding of an individual’s behaviour, presentation and problems. To develop case formulations using a psychological framework to develop a hypothesis or theory about the onset, motivation and maintenance factors in relation to a person’s behaviour and functioning. To develop formulations that provide testable hypotheses and predict how an individual on Probation will respond to sentencing, treatment and management plans, and provide a rationale for the sequence and dosage of treatment across the entire pathway.

To work in partnership with staff employed by the Probation Service to deliver joint case work within the service. To determine suitability for PROSPER (West Midlands IIRMS) via joint case work either face to face in the community, or potentially whilst the service user is still in prison.

To undertake case consultations and case formulatio