Job summary
- Main area
- Health and Justice
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 301-LG-24-6277597-A
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tamworth Probation Office
- Town
- Tamworth
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
**This post comes with a Welcome to MPFT bonus of 20% of the starting salary. 10% to be paid on appointment, and the further 10% paid following 12 months in post**
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 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 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.
We invite applications from Clinical or Forensic Practitioner Psychologists from diverse backgrounds to join the team, as part of our expanding Health and Justice Services. Whilst this is a part-time post, additional hours may be available for anyone looking for full time hours.
Please watch the following YouTube link to learn more about OPD services:
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of responsibilities please view the Job Description and Person Specification attached.
In Summary;
· 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.
· 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 formulations with individual staff, or with groups of staff, in conjunction with the Probation colleagues.
· To support and advise probation staff in developing plans for interventions with, and/or management of, people on Probation with personality difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, based upon case consultation and/or formulation, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of forensic settings, community and other health settings.
· To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis, management and treatment plan.
· To supervise other applied psychologist(s), including Assistant Psychologists and clinical or forensic psychology trainees.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent), as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post graduate level training in Forensic or Counselling Psychology (MSc or Doctoral level) as accredited by the BPS.
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional areas of specialised areas of psychological practice.
Desirable criteria
- Member of British Psychological Society
- Additional post graduate level training in one or more therapeutic treatment approaches e.g. cognitive therapy, systemic/family therapy, and psychodynamic therapy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified psychologist with people with severe and enduring mental health problems; including offering assessment and clinical interventions for a wide range of presenting problems including personality disorder. To include experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems who have come into contact with the justice system and who have committed violent and sexual offences.
- Substantial experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings and multi-agency settings
- Experience of working with the criminal justice system with up to date knowledge of relevant legislation.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing clinical consultation services to other professional staff.
- Experience of working in the NHS.
- Experience of working in a HMPPS setting.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of: • - the psychological needs of people with severe and enduring mental health problems • - current best practice when working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems who are at risk of offending, and • - wider clinical issues as evidenced by CPD log as recommended by the BPS.
- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management and their application within forensic community and/or inpatient contexts.
- High level skills in the assessment and management of risk.
Desirable criteria
- Up to date knowledge of: • - the psychological needs of people with personality difficulties • - current best practice in criminal justice system interventions with people who have committed violent and sexual offences.
- Demonstrated skills in providing liaison consultation and clinical supervision to professional and non-professional groups in health and non health settings.
- Leadership and management skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Melanie Davies
- Job title
- OPD Strategic Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07976 862668
- Additional information
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