Highly Specialist Clinical Practitioner - HMYOI Feltham A

Job Overview

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.

In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Highly Specialist Clinical Practitioner to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMYOI Feltham A.

This vacancy is recruiting for two posts: one 0.4 WTE permanent position and one 37.5-hour fixed-term maternity cover. Please indicate in your supporting statement which position you are interested in.

By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but who also can have a real impact on promoting health and well-being. Our healthcare services work to a 7-day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is always managed and maintained to the highest of standards.

Our motto is “Caring NOT Judging” so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a comprehensive specialist therapeutic service to young people at HMYOI Feltham in line with the principles & specifications of the SECURE STAIRS project.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment & therapy as well as offering advice & consultation on young people’s psychological care to other members of the core team on a given landing or unit.
• Coordinate & support the team in the process of multi-disciplinary collaborative formulation.
• Develop & facilitate a range of therapeutic groups including weekly community meetings.
• Work ‘through the gate’ on transition & resettlement for young people leaving custody, including meetings following release outside the establishment.
• Supervise assistant psychologists, students & graduate psychologists.
• Support & participate fully in the work of the HWBT, including attending team meetings, Reflective Practice & Staff Support groups.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines &d the overall framework of the service’s policies & procedures.
• Utilise research skills for audit, policy & service development & research.
• Provide clinical supervision to other members of the team or custodial service when appropriate, including in the event of a serious or significant incident.
• Offer training to prison staff & other professional colleagues around therapeutic skills, adolescent mental health & related issues.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:

• Monthly supervision
• Annual personal development plans/appraisals
• Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.
  
  

Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:

• Preceptorship Programme
• Support and guidance with Revalidation
• Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
  
  

Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:

• Health and wellbeing services
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• Relocation package *subject to meeting criteria*
  
  

The trust also values its staff, and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see job description and specification attached for full details.

Clinical:

• To provide specialist psychological assessments to young people within HMYOI Feltham, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved in the young person’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a young person’s mental health and personality difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within the YOI, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
• To integrate, within the psychological formulation, specialist knowledge of complex mental health disorders, models of sexual behaviour and offending.
• To attend review meetings, safer custody meetings and other prison meetings as appropriate, and to offer psychological opinion about management and appropriate referrals in that context.
• To liaise closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team, giving authoritative specialist advice on psychological aspects of care, contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment planning.
• To contribute to the development of a reflective culture within the healthcare team at Feltham, by supporting and participating in relevant activities such as training, Staff Support and Reflective Practice groups.
• To work with external agencies, such as local authorities, the Police, MAPPA and Youth Offending Teams, to share information appropriately and to contribute to planning and resettlement of young people making the transition from custody to the community, or to the adult estate.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice and training to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• To undertake time-limited family therapy work with a select group of children and young people as required.
  
  

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• Degree in Psychology or a related field, accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) or Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or equivalent professional body.
• For psychology candidates; Doctoral level training in clinical, forensic or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, equivalent to that accredited by the BPS
• OR A recognised professional post-graduate qualification in Systemic Therapy, Family Therapy, Arts Therapies, Psychotherapy or relevant core mental health professional therapeutic training.
• HCPC Registered
• HCPC/UKCP registration or similar bodies
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Pre- or Post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Further training in a specific trauma therapy e.g. EMDR, NET, TF-CBT
• Family therapy qualification / training
• Further training in reflective practice
• Further training in forensic mental health or forensic psychology
• Further training in yoga or mindfulness-based approaches.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity 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 representing psychology or a given therapeutic discipline within the context of multi-disciplinary care
• Experience/understanding of working with adolescents/young people
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching and training
• Experience of working within a secure setting, prison or hospital.
• Experience working with adolescents with complex needs.
• Experience of clinical work in the field of harmful sexual behaviour or sexual health.
• Experience of running reflective practice or staff groups.
• Experience of offering clinical supervision.
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the fields of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
• Possesses range of clinical knowledge, skills & information technology expertise relevant to post.
• Can demonstrate competence in supervision of junior psychology and MDT staff
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Broad knowledge of models of assessment, management and treatment of offenders with mental health difficulties.
• Ability to work intensively with people who present challenges in the complexity of their problems and needs, including sexual and violent offending and self-harming and suicidal behaviours
• A commitment to developing specialist knowledge and skills by engaging in relevant study and Continuing Professional Development relevant to the forensic population.
• Excellent IT skills.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g. people with additional disabilities).
• Can apply psychological knowledge creatively in developing new initiatives.
• Ability to write high quality reports for varied audiences, including courts and purchasers of services.