Band 7 Clinical Forensic Counselling Psychologist
Location: Isle of Sheppey – HMP Elmley
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £48,148-62,504 per annum, dependent on experience
This is a developmental post with an introductory Band 7 Psychologist role to progress into a Band 8a Clinical Forensic Counselling Psychologist on completion of competencies. The current post is based within the Integrated Mental Health Team at HMP Elmley.
Core responsibilities will include supervising qualified psychologists, trainees and assistant psychologists, applying the NICE stepped care model and leading on consultation activity with both operational and clinical staff. There would also be an expectation the post holder would carry a case load and carry out psychological assessment and therapy with complex individual and groups of prisoners.
The role covers being on site at HMP Elmley.
What will you be doing?
Oxleas Forensic Psychological Therapies department is an unusually large, long established and nationally well-regarded specialty. Psychological therapists are highly valued within the wider directorate and trust and occupy a variety of service-wide leadership roles, including as Responsible Clinicians. Staff in the Forensic Directorate report the highest levels of job satisfaction in a Trust recognised for positive employee feedback. The Psychological Therapies team is warm and friendly, whilst also being dynamic and innovative.
Within the psychological therapies department, there is a focus on attachment, trauma and systemic approaches with expert supervision available for several evidence-based therapy modalities such as Mentalisation based Therapy (MBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation therapy (EMDR).
The post holder will supervise pre-qualified psychological therapists.
What do you need?
* Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration
* Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice–based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher
* Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline ie HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional body
* Completion of a minimum of two years full-time (or equivalent part-time) post-doctoral / post qualification supervised experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with the full range of clinical severity under supervision
* Post-qualification of working with and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework
* Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
What next?
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