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, i ntellectual d isability 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 join ing 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 w orking 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
