Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. To work in partnership with the Clinical Lead and the two other core treatment leads to design, develop and deliver a trauma focused treatment programme ensuring clear leadership, attention to equality, diversity and inclusion, quality, safety and utilising service user experience.
2. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments and treatments of prisoners referred to the team including interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
3. To use the findings of complex assessments to develop psychological formulations of presenting problems and offending behaviours that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors. Treatment priorities to be clearly defined, measurable and in line with risk reduction and improved wellbeing.
4. To communicate, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, the results of the assessment formulation and treatment reviews to the resident, wider multidisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the care of the resident, who may be hostile and antagonistic to receiving this information.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
6. To ensure the development, implementation and evaluation of appropriate group-work programmes in conjunction with the core treatment leads; both structured and unstructured intervention groups as required by the treatment programme.
7. To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.
8. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
9. To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and treating prisoners within the Fens Services at HMP Whitemoor, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
10. To use both designated actuarial and clinical tools, in addition to highly specialist knowledge and expertise to undertake ongoing risk assessment and risk management for individual prisoners and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
11. To work in partnership with other disciplines to help to establish and maintain multi-disciplinary team working and care programme approach.
12. To take a leading role within the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings providing direct input to those meeting and communicating information on psychological assessments, formulations and interventions collected by other psychologists and psychotherapists within the Fens Service, and other core MDT members.
13. To, where appropriate, act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the prisoner's needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the prisoner and all others involved in the network of care.
14. To contribute to prison service process of reviews of prisoners, providing written or verbal reports as appropriate to the specific reviews.
15. To contribute to the wider Offenders with Personality Disorder Pathway by sharing information with other sites and developing services that will provide for these prisoners once they have left the high secure service.
16. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care, working with NHFT, and Social Care & Justice providers.
17. To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that is understandable to the recipients of the reports.
18. To manage the treatment work and service caseloads of psychologists who contribute to the agreed psychological treatment programme.
19. To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
20. To collect and communicate specific information as required by the commissioners and as the NHS E contract dictates of the Offenders with Personality Disorder Pathway.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Either doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
2. Or be a qualified Chartered Applied Psychologist with significant post-Chartership experience and training in at least one model of psychological therapy and an understanding of the implications of attachment theory for clinical practice.
3. Undertaken training in the supervision of Trainee Clinical/ Forensic/Counselling Psychologists.
4. Post qualification training in working with people with complex histories within an attachment focused treatment approach.
Desirable criteria
1. Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
2. Attended relevant Trust/national training on a) Leadership skills b) Management Training.
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Assessed experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist including significant post qualification experience with people with complex needs.
2. Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified applied psychologists.
3. Experience of managing psychology resources for staffing and equipment.
4. Experience of delivering psychological assessment and therapy with complex problems.
5. Experience of using complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management.
6. Experience of managing qualified and unqualified psychologists/other professional therapists including recruitment and retention, professional management procedures, appraisals, sickness absence, maternity leave/paternity leave, annual leave.
7. Experience of supporting staff to develop appropriate care pathways.
Desirable criteria
1. Experience of identifying and addressing barriers to inclusion.
2. Experience of challenging oppressive or disrespectful practices.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
1. Able to establish relationships with individuals who are mistrustful and fearful of rejection.
2. Skills in service improvement.
3. Skills in self-management including time management.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential criteria
1. A high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical, contentious, highly distressing and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
2. Knowledge in and evidence of providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
3. Highly developed understanding of other professional's theoretical perspectives of working within the specialty.
4. Knowledge of a variety of research methods.
Other
Essential criteria
1. Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
2. Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.
3. Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
4. Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
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