88564 - Therapy Manager - Therapeutic Unit, HMP Grendon
Number of jobs available: 1
Detail of reserve list: 12 Months
Region: South East, South West
City/Town: Aylesbury
Building/Site: HM Prison Grendon, HP18 0TL
Grade: SEO
Band: 8
Post Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
Role Type: Psychology
Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities? Yes
Overview of the job
This is a non-operational, prisoner-facing job with functional management and clinical responsibilities. The focus of the work is based on therapeutic community principles, where a dedicated multidisciplinary team is clinically led by the post holder to develop a treatment environment where attitudes and expressions, which would not normally be tolerated in prison, are accepted and used to give feedback to prisoners. This therapeutic dialogue leads to a prisoner’s greater understanding of their usual behavior and is based on psychotherapeutic principles.
The job holder will largely excel in the area of psychodynamic and psychotherapeutic models of treatment, risk assessment, or be a specialist in a specific area such as working with sex offenders, learning disability, or personality disorder. At this level, the jobholder has the responsibility for the key specialist tasks involved in the delivery of a therapeutic community intervention, which includes overseeing the quality of delivery and supervision. They will also provide direction and support for other supervisors.
The job holder will provide clinical leadership in the provision of Psychotherapy within their work area by offering group and individual supervision in the support of Psychotherapists and other clinicians.
This is a specialist clinical job with responsibility for the output and activity for a large team of operational and specialist team members.
The job holder will be working with complex prisoners and prison staff and applying their experience and competence in the area of psychotherapy to reduce the risk of harm and re-offending by undertaking complex treatment intervention with prisoners, conducting or contributing to research, providing consultancy, and delivering training for staff and group interventions for prisoners.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
* Specialise in the clinical delivery and management of an accredited intervention (Democratic Therapeutic Community) ensuring that clinical and operational requirements are in place and fit for purpose.
* Lead and oversee the effective implementation of the Democratic Therapeutic Communities accredited core model in the prison setting.
* Manage the function of the multi-disciplinary clinical team, ensuring staff are competent and equipped to deliver the therapeutic intervention.
* Lead and deliver individual and group clinical supervision to all members of the staff team and develop the clinical abilities of staff who deliver group therapy.
* Support and supervise others in the team delivering supervisory processes.
* Provide a specialist group analytic contribution to the adult male treatment service in the prison setting.
* Manage the tensions between therapeutic and operational imperatives.
* Ensure that the staff group put these principles into practice in the way they communicate with and work with one another.
* Oversee all clinical written documentation and ensure this accurately reflects the work being done and progress being made by individual prisoners.
* Conduct full case reviews on difficult cases and offer authoritative advice on next steps relating to sentence plan.
* Lead on the formulation and implementation of plans for psychotherapeutic treatment or management of residents' mental health problems based on current evidence-based best practice.
* Lead on risk assessment and resulting risk management of complex, vulnerable, or high-risk prisoners.
* Attend weekly clinical, community, staff team meetings, including administrative, assessment, and academic meetings.
* Monitor therapy practice through direct observation and feedback.
* Provide supervision, training, mentoring, and support to trainee psychotherapists.
* Ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking audit and development activities relevant to the service area.
Minimum Requirements
Possess a professional background in one of the following disciplines: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Nursing
Experience in providing clinical supervision
Have undertaken psychotherapy training, including knowledge of psychotherapeutic models and effective models for treatment delivery.
Technical Requirements
Qualified and registered clinician with an associated and relevant professional body, e.g. BACP, BPS, BABCP, UKCP
Qualification and experience in providing clinical supervision (preferably both group and individual)
Must be a Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council and eligible to use a protected title.
Application Process
Selection will be by application form and interview, which may include a presentation.
Interviews to be held at HMP Grendon, dates to be confirmed but likely to be mid-end November 2024.
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