Job Purpose Devons Support to Succeed (STS) service combines the existing probation consultation service and the new Intensive Intervention and Risk Management service (IIRMs). The probation consultation arm of the service offers mainly indirect work with probation practitioners and includes: psychological consultation to probation practitioners; devising psychological formulations; workforce development; and limited joint working. It principally aims to enhance probation practitioners practice. IIRMs aims to provide a community based service that delivers individually tailored and psychologically informed interventions directly to people on probation as they transition out of prison and settle in the community. Both services seek to enhance the management of risk of serious harm to others and reduce re-offending, but also to develop psychological wellbeing and social engagement among users. While probation consultation largely offers indirect work with people on probation, the IIRMs service will work directly with clients. The role will consist: 1. Being an autonomous practitioner responsible for your own clinical activity and accountable for observing and interpreting professional and Trust guidelines for professional conduct including accurate record keeping 2. Providing consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies including Band 5 Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Psychologists and others 3. Devising, supervising and formulating a clients presenting difficulties(s), based upon the appropriate theoretical and conceptual frameworks and evidence based practice 4. Delivering individual and group interventions 5. Organising and agreeing each clients intervention plan including risk management and crisis-planning arrangements for people being released from prison into Devon or otherwise i.e. agreeing across agency arrangements for high risk people on probation released to out-of-area Approved Premises and / or IIRMs 6. Overseeing the weekly drop-in, custodial in-reach, referral consultation and joint assessment and clinical aspects of the role 7. Ensuring that frequent case and risk reviews occur and are recorded for all clients 8. Agreeing plans for the management of non-attendance and eventual discharge of individuals engaged in the OPD Pathway 9. Meeting appropriate standards of practice in the quality and timeliness of the service provided. Standards of practice will include those defined by: the British Psychological Society (including the Division of Clinical Psychology); the HCPC; and Devon Partnership Trust 10. Keeping adequate clinical records in accordance with Trust guidance 11. Undertaking risk and other assessments (where relevant) and collaborating on the risk management of individuals together with His Majestys Prison and Probation Service 12. Undertake other responsibilities e.g. quality improvement initiatives or service development / evaluation projects the ensure an ever improving, high quality, professional service 13. Liaise with a range of other services relevant to the STS Service (including health, criminal justice, prison and third sector agencies). 14. Communicating in a clear, professional, skilled and sensitive manner. Duties and Responsibilities Communication & Working Relationships Clients, family and others: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with service users with a mental health, learning disability, challenging behaviour and/or personality disorder who may have specific difficulties in understanding and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed. Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely, collaboratively and supportively with colleagues in the multi-professional integrated psychological consultation and intervention service on a day to day basis. Health, social care, CSJ and third sector staff: To communicate with a wide range of health & CSJ and other staff in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of individuals. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice. Senior managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers in the OPD Pathway and secure directorate to foster a positive approach to the Support to Succeed service and to enable effective negotiation. Planning & Organisation The psychology service: To plan and organise the work of the psychology provision of the Support to Succeed service and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within the commissioned service to DPT, to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities. The multi-disciplinary service: To provide psychology leadership to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of Support to Succeed. The directorate: To work as part of the psychology management structure and contribute to the planning and implementation of service developments. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment & Therapy Assessment & intervention: To provide expert psychological assessment (including risk assessment) and group / individual and support interventions, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of service users, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues. Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of people with personality difficulties, including probation service colleagues, other service providers, and relevant other agencies (e.g. Approved Premises). Policy, Service, Research & Development Responsibility The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines. Supervision and line management structures are in place to support the implementation of Trust policy and professional practice guidelines. Policy & service: To interpret and contribute to the development of policies and procedures for the provision of psychological consultation and intervention service in collaboration with HMPPS and DPT. R&D / audit: To contribute to and support the organisation of the R&D activities of the psychology service, and to undertake a research programme as agreed. To ensure all psychology staff participate in appropriate audit and evaluation of outcomes of the psychology service. Responsibility for Finance, Equipment & Other Resources Responsible for managing resources for psychologists and other assigned staff under the direction of the professional manager. To use resources appropriately, including psychometric tests. Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership & Management Management: Responsible for line management of allocated staff as part of the psychology department structure. Leadership & supervision: To provide leadership as a qualified psychologist and to professionally supervise psychology staff, trainees, assistants and volunteers as required. Other: To ensure high quality consultation, individual / group intervention and joint working within the Support to Succeed service. To provide psychology leadership in the integrated multi-professional service. Information Resources & Administrative Duties To maintain accurate records in accordance with local and professional guidance. To be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication. Any Other Specific Tasks Required To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by psychologists and other colleagues is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership. To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.