An exciting job opportunity has arisen to recruit a Specialist Psychological Practitioner to join our growing Integrated Offender Health Service supporting in the delivery of Primary Mental Health Treatment Requirement orders.

Are you a professional with experience of working in mental health, social care, or education? Are you looking to build your skill and experience of delivering psychological interventions? If so, this could be the job for you!

Health & Justice Vulnerability Service is an exciting NHS England initiative which continues to grow and expand across Birmingham and Solihull. The MHTR team provide support to individuals who have been given a court mandate for psychological intervention as an alternative to a custodial sentence. MHTR work in partnership with Birmingham Magistrates and Crown Court, Probation Services and local Woman's centres to ensure that individuals in receipt of an MHTR have the best opportunity to access and sustain engagement with psychological intervention, with the aim of reducing reoffending. This will be achieved through providing coordinated intervention, support, and risk management across multiple agencies, including health, criminal justice, local authority, substance misuse services, employment services and voluntary sector organisations.

Main duties of the job

You will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team under the supervision of a registered clinical/forensic psychologist. You will support the assessment, formulation, and delivery of psychological interventions to address the range of identified mental health needs. This will involve both individual and group work. Central to the role is working with the wider MDT and partnership agencies, to support psychological understanding of a person's difficulties, which will involve supporting consultations, providing training, facilitating supervision, and conducting evaluations of interventions.

We are looking for people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with, supporting, and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences, including trauma and neglect, and have a history of offending behaviour. This post is best suited to a professional with a background in teaching, counselling, social work, family work or nursing, who has some prior training and experience of delivering psychological interventions. Prior experience of providing support or supervision to a staff group would also be desirable. Due to the partnership working involved, you will also require good organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.

Whilst this post is for a fixed term to meet growing demand within the service, there is potential that this may be extended in the future.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Education (PGCE or equivalent), Social Work, Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, RMN, Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, with significant years professional practice.

Desirable

• Additional Training in Therapeutic Models and/or Risk Assessment

Experience

Essential

• Recognise relevance and application of evidence-based practice and evidence of CPD.
• Experience of working with individuals with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties
• Experience in delivering individual psychological interventions.
• Experience in delivering group psychological interventions. Recent experience in a mental health or criminal justice setting

Skills

Essential

• Ability to reflect on clinical practice/intervention. Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds.
• Understanding the impact of social circumstance, race, ethnicity, culture and gender on personality development. Ability to work effectively with service user representatives.

Desirable

• Experience of working with high risk offenders
• Experience of working with partner agencies

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Thomas Telford House - Ardenleigh Site

Kingsbury Road

Birmingham

B24 9SA

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