An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic experienced qualified Psychological Therapist to become part of the integrated mental health and justice pathway team within HMP Norwich .
The successful candidate will be working within day care at HMP Norwich
Day care is designed to support individuals presenting with risks of self‑harm, suicide, and self‑destructive behaviours. Delivered in a safe and therapeutic setting separate from the prison wings, the service provides structured and creative psychoeducational and therapeutic group interventions. These interventions are tailored to individual needs to promote learning, skill development, and sustained behavioural change.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a continually developing service, that offers therapeutic approaches underpinned by DBT, CBT and other psychological approaches. The service offers treatment pathways to address, mood stabilisation, anxiety, relationship management, emotional regulation, personality difficulties and trauma.
Specifically working with men who may self-harm, have attempted suicide, and/or experience high levels of anxiety or trauma/PTSD. The role includes having an active contribution in reducing self-harm, self destructive and violent behaviour, working closely with partner agencies
The successful applicant will require excellent therapeutic skills, cultural competency and be able to be responsive and flexible in working within the busy prison environment.
The role comes with a number of responsibilities including:
Clinical
Supervision & Line Management
Training & Development
Staff Wellbeing & Resilience
Service User Engagement
Service development
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
