HMP Ashfield is a category B male prison with an operational capacity for 412 prisoners. This role offers plenty of variety and contributes enormously to the important work of stabilising and reintegrating those prisoners safely and successfully back into society.
As a member of the Therapeutic Community's Clinical Team, you will conduct group treatment for residents. Reporting and tracking the residents' progress in therapy will be an important part of your job, as will ensuring that their risk of reoffending is minimised. You will participate in/chair Therapy Review Boards and make choices regarding appropriate future steps for residents at the end of their Therapy Journey. You will deliver therapy within the context of a Therapeutic Community and work with the Clinical Team to embed and sustain the Community's Audit Standards. You'll be active in every part of the Community Program and will help to promote clinical thinking in areas like Group Process, Supervision, and Sensitivity. A good awareness and understanding of residents with complex mental health problems, including Personality disorder, is essential.
As part of our team, you’ll help deliver psychological services at HMP Ashfield, including:
* Setting up and facilitating psychotherapy group sessions, with clinical autonomy drawing on a range of models from a group psychotherapy perspective.
* Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options considering highly complex factors concerning historical, criminal, relational, and developmental processes that have shaped the resident and their difficulties.
* Facilitating large community meetings, supporting co‐facilitators and other staff engaged in these processes.
* Contributing to effective risk assessment and resulting risk management of complex, vulnerable, or high-risk prisoners, reporting on treatment and therapeutic progress in relation to criminogenic factors.
* Providing feedback to operational and therapeutic staff regarding the residents in your group(s).
* Communicating complex clinical information in a skilled and sensitive manner including assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of residents to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary treatment.
* Attending appropriate meetings to provide clinical specialist input and advice to the multi-disciplinary team to maintain a treatment environment informed by psychodynamic principles.
* Contributing to the effective implementation of the Democratic Therapeutic Communities accredited core model in the prison setting.
* Ensuring the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service by participating in audit and development activities as required.
* Remaining informed of and critically evaluating current research to support evidence‐based practice in own professional work and contributing this perspective in the multi‐disciplinary team.
* Providing a specialist contribution to the preparation for clinical external audit of the therapeutic community, including preparation of case studies, detailed self-reviews, and liaison with external agencies such as the Community of Communities.
* Acting as a peer‐reviewer consultant to other Therapeutic Communities outside of the prison service.
* Maintaining professional networks with other clinicians and TCs sharing best practice.
* Attending supervision based on psychotherapy knowledge and skills.
* Maintaining Psychotherapy registration as a clinician and as a supervisor.
You will be a qualified/accredited psychotherapist with the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) or BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).
Experience
This is a challenging environment and it is desirable that you will be:
* An experienced and robust practitioner with experience of working in a forensic setting, particularly with those convicted of sexual offences.
* A practitioner with experience of assessment, implementation, and delivery of group work.
* Knowledgeable about TC issues.
Additional requirements
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Able to work collaboratively with prisoners.
* Skilled and experienced in working within a multi-disciplinary team.
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