Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Senior Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Mental Health In-reach Team at HMP Bronzefield.
We are keen to recruit someone with a passion for working with women in custody, and those who have experienced trauma, adversity and offending. In our women’s services, we provide a wide range of therapies (CBT, MBT, EMDR, Psychodynamic counselling, arts therapies) and actively work with partners to provide timely and trauma informed systems of care. You will be helping provide and develop these services at HMP Bronzefield.
We are able to offer this post as a preceptorship for Band 7 to 8a. We can support the successful candidate to progress their career through our well-established mentorship programme. If this is of interest, please do get in touch to discuss further.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. To work as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, supporting a psychological and trauma informed service to the women at HMP Bronzefield and leading on the psychological therapy provision within the team.
2. To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy as well as offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to other members of the clinical team.
3. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Health & Justice Services Directorate.
4. To provide clinical supervision to the team’s psychological therapists, Assistant Psychologists and trainees and other members of the team when appropriate.
5. To contribute to the reflective practice and critical thinking of the team on a case-by-case basis (e.g. complex case reviews) and in service improvement.
6. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
Teaching, Training, and Supervision:
1. To receive and provide regular clinical professional supervision.
2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to applied psychology, in line with a professional development plan and in keeping with service needs (as agreed with the professional lead).
3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other team members’ psychological work as appropriate.
4. To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to client care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
5. To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant applied psychologists, as well as more junior qualified psychologists, psychological therapists and counsellors.
6. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of applied psychology and psychological therapy, as appropriate.
7. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, Leadership, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development:
1. To participate as a clinician in identifying and implementing the development of a high quality, responsible and accessible service, in consultation with the team manager and supervisor.
2. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
3. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
4. To contribute psychological knowledge and expertise to policy and service development through participation, where practical, in regional multidisciplinary meetings and special interest groups, working parties etc that may impact on the functioning of the service.
5. To participate in the management of psychological resources available to the team, in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of service users.
6. To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee applied psychologists, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures.
7. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists and other staff as appropriate.
8. To provide effective leadership and management to staff which promotes high performance standards both individually and as a team, in the achievement of the Trust’s objectives and priorities.
Research and Service Evaluation:
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
3. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
General:
1. To ensure professional registration is maintained, complying with Continuing Professional Development requirements to maintain registration.
2. To ensure the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and where appropriate, external CPD training and development programmes.
3. To maintain an individual professional profile within the care group as direct evidence of clinical practice at an advanced level.
4. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
5. To work within agreed Trust policies and guidelines including adult and child protection guidelines and including health and safety regulations and policies.
6. To receive instructions from, and carry out any other duties as reasonably requested/ delegated by the Team manager and Psychology Lead.
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