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Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health care to those people living in Birmingham and Solihull who are experiencing mental health problems.
The Trust serves a culturally and socially-diverse population of over a million spread over 172 square miles, and have an income of over £230 million, making our Trust one of the largest mental health foundation trusts in the country. they also provide services to people who live further afield because of some of the specialised services we provide.
The Trust has over 4000 dedicated staff who are continually working to help people get better and challenge the stigma associated with mental illness. The Trust operates from over 50 sites in a variety of settings, from community based mental health teams through to acute wards and day centres.
Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist - HMP Foston Hall
Closed for applications on: 30-Apr-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 30-Apr-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- HMP Foston Hall
- Town
- Derby
- Postcode
- DE65 5DN
- Major / Minor Region
- Birmingham & The Black Country
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Secure Care and Offender Health
Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
8A Practitioner Psychologist - Enhanced Support Service (ESS) at HMP Foston Hall
We are recruiting to 1xWTE Band 8A Practitioner Psychologist for ACCESS, the Enhanced Support Service at HMP Foston Hall, Derby. We are looking for enthusiastic, robust, resilient, creative, and innovative candidates interested in working with people who have complex presentations, encompassing risk, personality difficulties and mental health.
ACCESS is part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway and is a partnership between HMP Foston Hall, Practice Plus Group, and HMPPS Psychology Services. The service aims to support prisoners at HMP Foston Hall presenting with highly complex needs which are causing them significant distress and preventing them from progressing in their sentence in some way. More specifically, it is for service users who cannot access or are not responding to existing strategies and interventions to manage their behaviour, indicating the need for a higher level of support. ACCESS aims to work collaboratively with service users and/or the professionals involved in their care, to promote stability, psychological wellbeing and positive coping through the provision of intervention and support.
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As a result, ACCESS aims to support individuals to engage meaningfully with the regime as well as mainstream services, activities and support as required. Through the provision of staff support, ACCESS also aims to improve the competence, confidence and attitudes of professionals working with complex prisoners, some of whom may present with Personality Disorder and/or mental health needs. We welcome applications from motivated people with leadership skills and experience, who are interested in working with complex presentations, balancing clinical need with risk management. A core part of these roles will be to work alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines sharing psychological knowledge and consistently improving the psychological mindedness of the service. We are looking for people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with, supporting and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences, including trauma and neglect, and have a history of offending behaviour.
Working with this client group can be emotionally taxing requiring a robustness to manage the complex emotions and processes that occur. You will have appropriate access to clinical supervision and support. You will be line managed by a Consultant Psychologist/Strategic Clinical Lead in the Secure Care and Offender Health (SCOH) directorate within Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT).
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation. Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
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Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case by case basis.
Please note, if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust.
All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your first week with us.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.
If applicable to your role, the Trust will require you to sign up for the DBS Update Service. The subscription will cost you £13 a year but the Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Browse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 1. It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical/forensic psychology completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Eligibility for entry onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including forensic contexts with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
- Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ clients and those who present with challenging behaviours
- At least 2 years post qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Psychology Training Courses criteria.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working within prison setting and/or within women’s specific services.
- Experience within a leadership role (e.g. leading / co-ordinating the day-to-day management of a service or team).
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Well developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study, training and supervised experience during a minimum of 18 to 24 months as a Specialist Clinical/Forensic Psychologis
- Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.
- Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific ‘difficult to treat’ groups (e.g. personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
Desirable criteria
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
personal
Essential criteria
- Ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health problems and associated disabilities.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism, and to reflect on and manage own emotions and those of others, when faced by challenging behaviour, including frequent verbal abuse and occasional threatened physical abuse.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
- Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Enderdeep Garcha
- Job title
- Registered Forensic Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01283584311
- Additional information
Successful applicants are subject to enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services and to HMPPS vetting where appropriate to the post.
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