Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Clinical and Client Care
* Responsibilities for team and service clinical functioning
* Policy and service development
* Management and supervision
* Teaching and Training
* Record-keeping and Information Governance
* Research and development
* Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
* To travel to clinical venues, training activities and meetings as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
* To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow Trust policies relating to its management.
* To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations of people in distress or in crisis and who may be abusive and to support others involved in such situations.
* To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics or weekend working, within the overall Job Plan.
* To be proficient in the use of IT for purposes such as email, electronic calendar, intranet, video calls and electronic clinical records.
* To be familiar with word processing, database and statistical packages, and to use such packages appropriately as necessary.
* To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic clinical records and report writing, in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
* To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues pertaining to the client group.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
* Proof of address documentation
* Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
* 5 years address history will be needed.
* Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
* Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration.
* Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher.
* Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional body.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Completion of a minimum of two years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with the full range of clinical severity under supervision.
* Post-qualification of working with and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Ability to administer, score and interpret psychometric and neuropsychological tests with appropriate training and supervision.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
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
* Band 7 Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 616.3KB)
* Band 8a Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 760.3KB)
* Important Additional Information For Candidates (please read carefully) (PDF, 160.6KB)
* Privacy Notice for Staff (PDF, 268.6KB)
* Staff Benefits (PDF, 2.5MB)
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