Psychological Therapist Hmp Aylesbury

Job summary To provide a key role in integrating Psychological Therapist into the mental health team.To provide a comprehensive specialist Psychological Therapist service to service users.To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy as well as offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to other members of the clinical team.To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Offender Health Directorate.To provide clinical supervision to other members of the team when appropriate.To contribute to the reflective practice and critical thinking of the team on a case-by-case basis ( complex case reviews) and in meetings for service improvement.
Main duties of the job Source and make available appropriate evidence based psychologically informed assessment tools.
Including self-rating, rating scales, structured and semi structured interviews and provide appropriate training on their use within the multidisciplinary team to ensure these are embedded as part of a holistic assessment of mental health within the team.To provide specialist psychological assessments to service users within the Prison 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 service users and others involved in the service users' care.To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's mental health and personality problems, 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, and groups, within the Prison, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
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Job description Job responsibilities To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.To integrate with the psychological formulation specialist knowledge of complex mental health disorders.To understand the role of physical treatments for complex mental health disorders, and to offer appropriate advice to the patient, carers and clinicians in the light of such understanding.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 directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all those who use the service.To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice and training to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
Person Specification EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS Essential A good honours degree in Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Doctoral level training in clinical 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.
Evidence of post-qualification specialist training, experience and developing expertise in a specialist area of clinical practice.
HCPC Registered Desirable Pre- or Post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Paid/unpaid relevant to job Essential oDemonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours, experience as a clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist, or an alternative agreed by the Chief Psychologist.
oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings oExperience 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.
oExperience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings and representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care oExperience of working within a secure environment.
oAdvanced knowledge, experience and expertise in at least one specialist area of clinical practice gained through specialist training and supervised practice ( psychotherapy, neuropsychology, risk assessment, clinical supervision).
Desirable oExperience of teaching and training oExperience of working within a prison setting.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES Essential oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
oWell 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.
oSkills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups oDoctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
oPossesses range of clinical knowledge, skills & information technology expertise relevant to post.
oCan demonstrate competence in supervision of junior qualified psychology and MDT staff and professional psychology trainees.
oAbility to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings oAbility 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.
oBroad knowledge of models of assessment, management and treatment of mentally disordered and PD offenders.
oAbility 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 oHigh level of ability to plan and organise clinical service provision to meet service demands, and to maintain high quality professional practice.
oContinually develop specialist knowledge and skills by engaging in relevant study and Continuing Professional Development relevant to the forensic population.
oExcellent IT skills.
Desirable oKnowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups ( people with additional disabilities).
oCan apply psychological knowledge creatively in developing new initiatives.
oAbility to write reports for varied audiences, including courts and purchasers of services.
ATTITUDES, APTITUDES PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS Essential Excellent interpersonal skills.
Team player.
Other Essential Sickness (or attendance) record that is acceptable to the Trust: to be checked at interview.
Declared medically fit by the Occupational Health Department to perform the duties of the post Ability to work in a secure environment, in line with HMPS policy and procedure - to obtain and maintain enhanced security clearance.