Preceptorship Psychologist (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

As a qualified, HCPC registered Psychologist, your responsibilities will vary. You will

This role will include

conducting comprehensive psychological assessments, providing therapeutic

interventions, developing individualized treatment plans to address the mental

health needs of remanded individuals and supporting the embedding of a Trauma

Informed approach to patient care. By collaborating with multidisciplinary

teams including healthcare and prison colleagues, this role will contribute to

the overall wellbeing of men in prison, support their emotional resilience

during this transitional period, and facilitate access to necessary resources

and support systems to promote better outcomes both during incarceration and

post-release.

Identify patients

who may benefit from psychological intervention, following mental health

triages and in discussion with the multi-disciplinary team and, where demand

exceeds capacity, prioritise according to clinical need, risk presentation and

release planning in line with agreed service policy;

Provide comprehensive psychological

assessment, including risk assessment, and develop psychological formulations

to support patients and other members of the MDT in making sense of their

difficulties; contribute, where appropriate, to Mother & Baby board

reviews;

Identify and deliver appropriate individual

and group interventions to patients in line with the Psychological Therapies

Service (PTS) pathways;

To monitor

and evaluate psychological interventions using appropriate measures;

To maintain

accurate clinical records and keep the PTS dashboard up to date with outcomes

data for patient/service and staff outcomes;

To

communicate both verbally and written, highly complex information concerning

assessment, formulation and intervention plans to patients, professional

colleagues and external agencies, as appropriate;

resources appropriately.

Identify and

provide opportunities for other members of the multi-disciplinary team to gain

understanding of how psychological knowledge can support their work with patients,

through developing psychological formulations with team members, participating

in multi-disciplinary meetings and decision making or other opportunities for

providing consultancy and advice;

To attend ACCT reviews and segregation reviews in the prison

as appropriate and to offer psychological opinion about management and appropriate

referrals in that context and, offer psychological understanding into CSIP

plans to support management of patients within the wing by prison staff;

In liaison

with the Mental Leads and/or Heads of Healthcare, identify and deliver

opportunities for staff learning and reflection, through reflective practice,

debrief and training sessions.

In liaison

with Mental Leads and/or Heads of Healthcare and the National head of

Psychological Therapies, identify opportunities for and conduct service

development projects in collaboration with other members of the

multidisciplinary team;

Participate

in and contribute to CPD and peer supervision within the wider healthcare team;

engagement in appropriate practice supervision and keep a log of evidence of

core competencies in line with agreed preceptorship plan.

Teaching, training and supervision

To provide

regular reflective practice sessions to the mental health team and other ad-hoc

opportunities for reflection on practice, including individual or group

debriefing following incidents;

To provide

training to other members of the multidisciplinary team in the delivery of trauma

and psychologically informed care and treatment;

To contribute

to CPD and peer supervision sessions within the wider PTS team;

To receive

regular clinical supervision from an appropriately qualified and experienced

supervisor, in accordance with the BPS and the HCPC guidelines and, where

appropriate, from other senior professional colleagues;

Management, recruitment, policy and service development

To participate in multi-disciplinary

meetings concerned with the delivery and development of clinical services and

contribute a psychological perspective as appropriate;

To advise the

Mental Health lead and/or Heads of Healthcare on those aspects of the service

where psychological matters need addressing in line with best practice and

service objectives;

To contribute

to proposals for and implementation of policy and service development changes

in relation to psychology and psychological therapies within the service;

Research, service evaluation & audit

To utilise

theory, evidence based literature and research to support evidence based

practice in individual/ group work and work with other team members;

To contribute

to project management, including complex audit, research and service evaluation

projects, with colleagues within the service, to help develop service

provision;

To attend regional

and national Psychological Therapies meetings, service development and other

relevant meetings regularly;

To adhere to

professional/accrediting body codes of conduct, policies and procedures (e.g.

HCPC, BABCP, BPS);

To be aware

of, adhere to, and where appropriate, contribute to the formulation and review

of Practice Plus Group policies and procedures;

To maintain

and develop high standards of psychology/psychological therapy practice by

engaging in continuing professional development and co-operative

working/networking with therapists, clinical, counselling and forensic

psychologist colleagues;

To receive

regular line management supervision by the Head of Healthcare

participate in the organisations annual performance review and personal

development planning process with the clinical supervisor and line manager;

To keep up to date with legislation,

national directives, policies and NICE guidelines in relation to the work

delivered.

Description is not exhaustive and may change as the post develops, but such

change will not take place without consultation between the post holder and

their manager. Job descriptions should be reviewed at least annually at the

appraisal meeting.

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. Were the UKs leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Groups purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If youre looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.

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Experience

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