Psychological Therapist/Practitioner Psychologist

Job summary

The Inspires service is part of the national Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and comprises of 3 services within HMP Swinfen Hall, a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE), a residential assessment and treatment (Delta Enabling Environment) service for young men with emerging personality traits 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. Our service is expanding to include an outreach service that will provide assessment and therapeutic interventions for service users across the prison who are not yet ready or are unable to access the residential service. As a result, our team is expanding and we are looking for additional practitioners.

You will be required to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service; to aid the development of the evidence base on the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway, specifically for young adults.

Main duties of the job

The role will include providing specialist psychological assessments, producing collaborative formulations, treatment planning and delivering individual and group psychotherapeutic interventions as appropriate to your professional qualifications and training. The service utilises a flexible, person-centred approach to meet the needs of individual service users and a wide range of different interventions and approaches are delivered. This includes Compassion Focussed Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, tree of life groups, sensory integration work, Occupational Therapy, Drama Therapy, and psychodynamic approaches.

You will be expected to provide clinical supervision to Prison Officers who work therapeutically within the DEE 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 treatment and core psychological interventions in line with trauma informed care. In doing so, you will be responsible for adhering to relevant service Operational Procedures and Trust policies and professional ethics and standards and will be accountable for professional and clinical actions.

About us

As a health and wellbeing organisation here at team NHFT we are dedicated to continually innovate and strive to make a difference to our community and those working for our Trust, we aim to serve the people of Northamptonshire and surrounding areas with safe, quality care . We deliver this from an understanding of our local healthcare needs, economy and the changing demands of our community.

Our mission , making a difference for you, with you was chosen by our staff and stakeholders. It means in everything we do and through every service we provide, we want to make a positive difference in people's lives - for those we care for , those we work with and those who work with us . Everyone is part of our team.

Our core strategy is to be an employer of choice , a great place to work and be known for a diverse and inclusive culture whose staff feel valued . We provide a range of NHS services including physical, mental health and specialty services provided in hospital settings and out in the community within schools, GP clinics and patients own homes.

Job description

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

Essential

Essential

Experience of working within the criminal justice system

Desirable

Desirable

oEvidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by relevant professional body. (

Desirable

Desirable

oKnowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups ( personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).

Essential

Essential

oExperience of providing treatment and core psychological interventions in line with trauma informed care.

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