The Swaleside Pathways team is a warm & welcoming team in an exciting, award-winning service. We offer excellent opportunities for engaging in fascinating clinical work as well as excellent training, accreditation, and career development opportunities.
We work jointly with operational colleagues in HMP Swaleside with male high-risk offenders who screen into the OPD pathway (Offender 'Personality disorder'). The service aims to assess, understand, and provide therapeutic intervention for men presenting with complex and challenging difficulties. We achieved the 2023 Health Service Journal Award for our work on Diversity, our wing has achieved 'Enabling Environment' status, and we are working towards the 'Trauma Informed' One Small Thing Award. There is active service user involvement and a commitment to fairness and equality.
This is an exciting opportunity for a clinical, forensic psychologist, or other psychological therapist who is interested in understanding and working with complexity and wishes to further develop their clinical skills in therapeutic approaches. All recruits will receive training, supervision, and support to gain accreditation in specific therapeutic domains (Schema/ MBT/ EMDR/ other) and to develop their practice.
The post holder will be part of the huge Oxleas Forensic Psychological Therapies Team which offers regular excellent opportunities for training, peer supervision, skill development, networking, and career progression.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist psychological service to complex offenders who screen into the OPD Pathway services in HMP Swaleside, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy while offering advice and consultation on offender psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers, working autonomously with professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Oxleas policies and procedures.
Specifically, to work alongside prison, probation, and psychology colleagues in the provision of OPD services within HMP Swaleside, as funded by Dept of Health and Ministry of Justice. This includes assessments and formulation, therapeutic interventions, joint-working with prison staff, case management, advice, consultation, and training. Responsibility for collaborating with an evaluation of the service.
To specialise in a therapy area and work towards gaining accreditation in that area.
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
* To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the clients' care.
* To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
* To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups, within the team.
* 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.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based care plans.
* To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
* To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
* To act as case holding clinician, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents, and others involved in the network of care.
* To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
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.
Person Specification
Training and qualifications
Essential
* Professionally accredited psychological qualification in clinical/forensic/counselling psychology or equivalent other
Desirable
* Doctorate in Clinical/ Forensic/ Counselling psychology
Skills
Essential
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Experience
Essential
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
Employer details
Employer name
Address
HMP Prison Swaleside
Brabazon Rd
Isle of Sheppey
ME124AX
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