- To provide a comprehensive, specialist psychological therapy service to patients of Offender Care and to the men of HMP Woodhill.
- To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
- To provide training, advice and consultation to other staff about the psychological needs of the patients.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Offender Care Directorate.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust's policies and procedures.
- To provide comprehensive psychological assessments of patients within the prison using a structured and semi-structured clinical interview, psychometric instruments, and other assessment methods as appropriate.
- 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, and 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, with and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To provide interventions for individuals presenting with a range of complexity, from common mental health problems to severe and enduring problems.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and the consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To attend seclusion and segregation reviews, recovery team meetings and safer custody meetings in the prison as appropriate and to offer psychological opinion about management and appropriate referrals in that context.
- 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 support clients nearing release in accessing statutory and voluntary community services where appropriate.
- To promote self-help, self-management and healthy lifestyles enabling people to build their emotional health and capacity to deal with life events.
- To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA 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.
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording, and report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance, in accordance with professional codes of practice of the relevant governance body and Trust policies and procedures.
- To work innovatively and in conjunction with colleagues (both mental health and prison staff) to develop appropriate, evidence based and effective services.
- To receive regular clinical supervision from a suitably qualified and experienced psychological therapist and, where appropriate, other professional colleagues.
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work, as appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant practitioners and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee practitioners.
- o provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. This is likely to be focused particularly around personality disorder, self-harm and substance misuse.
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Job overview
Main duties of the job
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings
Working for our organisation
There's a place for you at CNWL
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY RESULT AREAS
Clinical:
Teaching, training and supervision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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