Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

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Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist NHS AFC Band 7 Main area Health & Justice Grade NHS AFC Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 333-D-HJ-1933

Site LPP Hub Town London Salary £56,276 - £63,176 per annum incl. HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 08/12/:59

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

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Job overview This is an exciting opportunity for either a newly (or soon to be) qualified band 7 psychological therapist to work in the London Women's Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) Service. This is a London Pathways Partnership (LPP) service, led by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with CNWL NHS Foundation Trust and Together for Mental Wellbeing.

MHTRs aim to reduce custodial sentences, improve wellbeing and address mental health needs associated with offending. MHTRs were introduced by the Criminal Justice Act in 2003, recognising that for many individuals who offend, mental health and substance misuse issues underpin their offending behaviour. This service aims to increase the use of MHTRs as part of a community sentence. The London Women's MHTR Service provides a primary care level service and is also one of three pilot secondary care sites, testing pathways into secondary care services for individuals. The successful individual will have the opportunity to work across both services.

If you would like to know more about this exciting opportunity, please contact Dr Lorna Fallon, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Service Lead ().

Main duties of the job The post-holder will work according to national MHTR guidance, and local procedures.

The role will include:

• Assessment of women prior to sentencing to consider suitability for an MHTR
• Holding a caseload and providing short term psychological interventions for those that are sentenced to an MHTR
• Liaison with stakeholders including probation colleagues, court staff and secondary care mental health services
• Supervision of prequalified staff including trainees and assistant psychologists, and supervision of qualified staff dependent on experience
• Involvement in service research, audits and development

Working for our organisation London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is committed to providing a comprehensive training package to all staff in order to promote continuing professional development. Recent training events have focused on structured professional judgement tools, cultural competency and resilience. The service also provides opportunities for developing specialism in particular aspects of service delivery, e.g. working with women or young people, or promoting trauma informed approaches.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.

Person specification Education and Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or forensic psychology or its equivalent, accredited by the BPS. Training in models of developmental lifespan psychology, psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies
• HCPC Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• OR : A recognised postgraduate qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (or equivalent). Accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP) (via having a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. nursing, psychology, medicine, social work, occupational therapy or evidence of having achieved the Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) route)
• OR: A recorded/registered qualification in counselling or psychotherapy and further post accreditation qualification in a NICE recommended or evidence based therapy (e.g. CBT; EMDR) Accreditation with a Professional Standards Authority recognised Accreditation Body.
• Other relevant CPD qualifications, pre or post training. Especially training in working with people with trauma presentations, research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Training in more than one psychological therapy.

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient 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. Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience working with and delivering psychological therapy to those with a diagnosis of personality disorder and/or a history of self harm and substance misuse and experience of working with complex trauma.
• Experience of delivering brief, primary care, CBT interventions or equivalent
• Experience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings
• Experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural and specialist contexts.
• Experience of working in secure settings, either prison or secure hospitals.
• Experience of working with service users to develop peer facilitated support or treatment initiatives.
• Experience of using a trauma informed approach.

Skills & Knowledge

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in providing training, advice and psychological information and consultation to other professional and non professional groups
• High level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Broad knowledge of models of assessment, management and treatment of mentally disordered and PD offenders.
• 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.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses).
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