Main area: Secure Care and Offender Health
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Fixed term: 1 year (Secondment can also be considered)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 436-6739842
Employer: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Thomas Telford House - Ardenleigh Site
Town: Birmingham
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 04/12/2024
Band 6 Specialist Psychological Practitioner - Ardenleigh Site
Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
An exciting job opportunity has arisen to recruit a Specialist Psychological Practitioner to join our growing Integrated Offender Health Service supporting in the delivery of Primary Mental Health Treatment Requirement orders.
Are you a professional with experience of working in mental health, social care, or education? Are you looking to build your skill and experience of delivering psychological interventions? If so, this could be the job for you!
The Health & Justice Vulnerability Service is an exciting NHS England initiative which continues to grow and expand across Birmingham and Solihull. The MHTR team provides support to individuals who have been given a court mandate for psychological intervention as an alternative to a custodial sentence. MHTR works in partnership with Birmingham Magistrates and Crown Court, Probation Services, and local Women’s centres to ensure that individuals in receipt of an MHTR have the best opportunity to access and sustain engagement with psychological intervention, with the aim of reducing reoffending. This will be achieved through providing coordinated intervention, support, and risk management across multiple agencies, including health, criminal justice, local authority, substance misuse services, employment services, and voluntary sector organisations.
Main duties of the job
You will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team under the supervision of a registered clinical/forensic psychologist. You will support the assessment, formulation, and delivery of psychological interventions to address the range of identified mental health needs. This will involve both individual and group work. Central to the role is working with the wider MDT and partnership agencies, to support psychological understanding of a person’s difficulties, which will involve supporting consultations, providing training, facilitating supervision, and conducting evaluations of interventions.
We are looking for people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with, supporting, and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences, including trauma and neglect, and have a history of offending behaviour. This post is best suited to a professional with a background in teaching, counselling, social work, family work, or nursing, who has some prior training and experience of delivering psychological interventions. Prior experience of providing support or supervision to a staff group would also be desirable. Due to the partnership working involved, you will also require good organisational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
Whilst this post is for a fixed term to meet growing demand within the service, there is potential that this may be extended in the future.
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing, and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive, and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Education (PGCE or equivalent), Social Work, Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, RMN, Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, with significant years of professional practice.
* Additional Training in Therapeutic Models and/or Risk Assessment.
Experience
* Recognise relevance and application of evidence-based practice and evidence of CPD.
* Experience of working with individuals with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties.
* Experience in delivering individual psychological interventions.
* Experience in delivering group psychological interventions. Recent experience in a mental health or criminal justice setting.
Skills
* Ability to reflect on clinical practice/intervention. Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds.
* Understanding the impact of social circumstance, race, ethnicity, culture, and gender on personality development. Ability to work effectively with service user representatives.
* Experience of working with high-risk offenders.
* Experience of working with partner agencies.
Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process, you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however, all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
Please note, if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust.
All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your first week with us.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.
If applicable to your role, the Trust will require you to sign up for the DBS Update Service. The subscription will cost you £13 a year, but the Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.
Relocation expenses may be reimbursed subject to eligibility. The policy provides for reimbursement up to £8,000.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
For successful internal applicants from within BSMHFT the post can be offered as a secondment. For an informal discussion please contact Danielle Tierney.
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