Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 7 days ago

Derby, United Kingdom Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

8A Practitioner Psychologist - Enhanced Support Service (ESS) at HMP Foston Hall

We are recruiting to 1xWTE Band 8A Practitioner Psychologist for ACCESS, the Enhanced Support Service at HMP Foston Hall, Derby. We are looking for enthusiastic, robust, resilient, creative, and innovative candidates interested in working with people who have complex presentations, encompassing risk, personality difficulties and mental health.

ACCESS is part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway and is a partnership between HMP Foston Hall, Practice Plus Group, and HMPPS Psychology Services. The service aims to support prisoners at HMP Foston Hall presenting with highly complex needs which are causing them significant distress and preventing them from progressing in their sentence in some way. More specifically, it is for service users who cannot access or are not responding to existing strategies and interventions to manage their behaviour, indicating the need for a higher level of support. ACCESS aims to work collaboratively with service users and/or the professionals involved in their care, to promote stability, psychological wellbeing and positive coping through the provision of intervention and support.

Main duties of the job

As a result, ACCESS aims to support individuals to engage meaningfully with the regime as well as mainstream services, activities and support as required. Through the provision of staff support, ACCESS also aims to improve the competence, confidence and attitudes of professionals working with complex prisoners, some of whom may present with Personality Disorder and/or mental health needs. We welcome applications from motivated people with leadership skills and experience, who are interested in working with complex presentations, balancing clinical need with risk management. A core part of these roles will be to work alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines sharing psychological knowledge and consistently improving the psychological mindedness of the service. We are looking for people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with, supporting and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences, including trauma and neglect, and have a history of offending behaviour.

Working with this client group can be emotionally taxing requiring a robustness to manage the complex emotions and processes that occur. You will have appropriate access to clinical supervision and support. You will be line managed by a Consultant Psychologist/Strategic Clinical Lead in the Secure Care and Offender Health (SCOH) directorate within Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT).

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical/forensic psychology completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. Eligibility for entry onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including forensic contexts with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity. Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' clients and those who present with challenging behaviours At least 2 years post qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Psychology Training Courses criteria.

Desirable

Previous experience of working within prison setting and/or within women's specific services. Experience within a leadership role ( leading / co-ordinating the day-to-day management of a service or team).

Knowledge

Essential

Well developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study, training and supervised experience during a minimum of 18 to 24 months as a Specialist Clinical/Forensic Psychologis Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity. Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups. Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific 'difficult to treat' groups ( personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).

Desirable

High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies

personal

Essential

Ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines. Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health problems and associated disabilities. Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism, and to reflect on and manage own emotions and those of others, when faced by challenging behaviour, including frequent verbal abuse and occasional threatened physical abuse.

Other

Essential

Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice

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