CBT High Intensity Therapist

Location: Chelmsford

Salary: £43,742 per annum, plus benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

We are recruiting for a High Intensity/ CBT Therapist at HMP Chelmsford. Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.

The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.

We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment and re-offending.

Role Responsibilities

As a CBT therapist you will work with adults on an individual face-to-face basis or through facilitating therapeutic groups and work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages and should be committed to equal opportunities. Key part of this role is to assess a service user's suitability for, and to deliver a range of Step 3 evidence based interventions in line with NICE Guidelines. The post holder will provide line management to the senior PWP. There will be case management and clinical skills responsibilities. There will also be additional management and leadership duties working in conjunction with the Senior PWP, i.e. report writing and attendance at internal and external MDT meetings.

The post holder will have a team work approach and be flexible and adaptable to the needs of the organisation and will be required to work between locations as agreed. At times you will be the most senior representative on site and you will be in a position of trust and building an excellent relationship with your manager will be a priority, as well as collaborative working relationships with partner agencies.

All prison-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 3-6 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances. Checks will require you to provide information on the below:

• Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
• Your family (parents, parents partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
• Co-residents
• Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service
• Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
• Credit reference checks
• Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that's publicly available on the internet to ensure there's nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
• Other government and overseas agency or police checks.

The Ideal Candidate

Please see below a list of skills and experience needed for this role:

• Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties and people in primary care
• Experience of organising, planning and prioritising own workload
• Knowledge of the criminal justice sector and/or community services
• Experience of managing and developing staff providing both clinical and line management supervision
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive risk assessments, including assessment of risk to self and others.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex and sensitive information, both verbally and in writing
• Inter-personal skills and ability to relate to a diverse range of people
• Understanding the need for evidence based psychological interventions, in particular low/high intensity interventions
• Ability to reflect on and continuously develop own practice
• Ability to work flexibly in order to meet the needs of the service.
• Ability to utilise training and apply to practice

About Us: We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.