The Enhanced Support Service (ESS) is a service model comprising of a small multi-disciplinary team who work intensively with prisoners and staff using an individualised, psychologically informed approach with a small caseload of the most challenging prisoners.

The service aims to reduce the negative impact of violent, suicidal & disruptive behaviour in prisons. This post will work in partnership across prisons, healthcare, probation and psychology services. The team uses detailed assessments and case formulation to develop appropriate collaborative management plans with the prisoner and their keyworker/prison officer(s). They then offer intensive support to facilitate the implementation of these plans through individualised interventions. In addition, the team will promote a wider understanding of the difficulties associated with the prisoner group to facilitate a more psychologically informed environment that can best support the prisoners and their needs.

Main duties of the job

This role is to set up and deliver an enhanced support service within the offender personality disorder pathway as a qualified clinical / forensic psychologist. The service will be within HMP Peterborough female estate.

The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on prisoners' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non/professional carers. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures to:

Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by Northamptonshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Specifically to work alongside prison and health colleagues in the provision of personality disordered offender services within HMP Peterborough.

Include assessments and case management, advice, consultation and training.

Take responsibility for collaborating with an evaluation of the service.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on prisoners psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non/professional carers. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

This post does not have any budgetary responsibilities.

The post-holder will be required to ensure that outcome data is gathered, to produce audits/ evaluations, which demonstrate the efficacy of the Service to Commissioners as requested/ required.

Person Specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Doctoral Level training in clinical Psychology or Forensic
• specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Knowledge of Psychological theories of Personality Disorder development.
• Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training.

Desirable

• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
• Additional training or accreditation for another therapeutic modality, e.g. schema therapy, EMDR
• Specialised training related to Personality Disorders (e.g. Assessment and/ or Intervention).

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological problems or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions

Desirable

• Experience of working with offenders
• Ability to work independently within a framework
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Peterborough

Brightfields Business Hub Orton Southgate

Peterborough

PE2 6XU

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