The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) programme is a jointly commissioned initiative by NHS England and His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service, aimed at providing a pathway of psychologically informed services for a highly complex and challenging offender group who are likely to have severe personality difficulties and who pose a high risk of harm or a high risk of reoffending in a harmful way.
Our OPD Pathways service offers a consultation and formulation service to offender managers across 9 Surrey and Sussex probation offices. The Intensive Intervention & Risk Management Services (IIRMS) forms part of the wider Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.
You will lead a cross counties service covering Sussex and Surrey, providing professional and clinical leadership to a dedicated and skilled multi-disciplinary and multiagency team. You will also work closely and collaboratively with regional senior probation officers, and Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) provider collaborative colleagues in similar posts. The role will also provide supervision to the Clinical Leads for Brighton and Crawley Primary Care Mental Health Treatment Requirement team (Reflect Service), based at Brighton and Crawley Probation offices.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide professional and clinical leadership to OPD and IIRMS teams providing consultations to offender managers and (in IIRMS) direct clinical support to a high-risk group with offending histories.
2. Ensure contractual KPI performance and reporting, and clinical governance.
3. Take a lead on representing the Forensic CDS and SPFT in negotiations, collaborations and strategy development with the general manager and Probation Service senior colleagues.
4. Deliver comprehensive, accessible and evidence-based training plans.
5. Continually develop and support a competent, skilled and psychologically informed offender manager workforce working with people with offending backgrounds, presenting with high risk/challenging behaviours and complex personality difficulties.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
* Post doctoral / post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to the specific Care Group/Service.
* HCPC Registered as a practitioner Psychologist.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
* Doctoral level knowledge of applied psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct models of psychological therapy and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological practice.
* Assessed extensive experience of working as a qualified psychologist, including significant post qualification experience within the Specific Care Group/Service.
* Demonstrable knowledge of the theory and practice of leadership and management in mental health services.
* Extensive experience of providing successful clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary mental health provider context.
* High level knowledge of national policy frameworks and initiatives and the mental health economy within which the Trust services are provided.
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological practice.
* Experience of the successful professional management of qualified and pre-qualified applied psychologists.
* Experience of successfully representing the profession and/or services in local or regional policy forums, across services or at equivalent level.
* Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated care group.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of severity, across the full range of care settings including out-patient, community, primary-care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Brighton Probation
Lancaster House, 47 Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 9QA
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