Psychological Therapist - HMP Send

Job overview

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

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Psychological Therapist to join our forward thinking, friendly & expanding Mental Health Team at HMP Send where we provide a wide range of therapies and actively work with partners to provide timely and trauma informed systems of care.

You will be joining an established MDT, which includes nursing, psychiatry, assistant psychologists, clinical psychologists, art therapy, occupational therapy and neurodiversity practitioners and you will be contributing to meeting the needs of our diverse population, providing high quality group and individual therapies and helping develop and promote our inclusive and trauma informed pathways of care.

We are keen to recruit a confident & compassionate Psychological Therapist, with expertise of delivering high intensity therapy, to join our team. You will be a clinician with experience of working with complex needs & a real passion for providing support to some of the most vulnerable in society. We want to see someone who will work well with a range of professions, both within the established MDT & also with the wider prison staff, respecting & integrating a range of opinions and approaches to provide the best outcome.

A clinical interest in trauma informed approaches & working with complex psychological needs would be advantageous.

By joining CNWL’s Health & Justice Directorate you will be joining a large department of psychologists and psychological therapists that provide a variety of mental health and OPD services across London, Surrey, Kent and Bucks. Our staff are dynamic and welcoming and the networking and CPD opportunities are central to our services ethos. We have active research forums and promote our services and work through academic and clinical forums.

All staff receive regular supervision and are supported with career aspirations and progression.

Clinical

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients, 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 clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.

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, within 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 evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and 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 consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.

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…