Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist Preceptorship - Secure Services

Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist Preceptorship – Secure Services

Band 7/8a

Main area: Secure Care and Offender Health

Grade: Band 7/8a

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time / Part time (37.5 hours per week)

Job ref: 436-6961182

Site: HMP Foston Hall

Town: Derby

Salary: £46,148 – £60,504 per annum, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59

Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Job overview

1x Permanent vacancy for Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist in CAMEO, Specialist Offender Personality Disorder Service

We are recruiting for a Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist at CAMEO, a Personality Disorder service based at HMP Foston Hall. CAMEO is a specialist, intensive day treatment personality disorder service for high-risk women with complex needs. The service offers a range of psychological interventions, aiming to alleviate distress for the individual, improve emotional regulation, and reduce levels of risk. CAMEO is part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPD) and is a partnership service between BSMHFT, HMPPS, and Anawim, a third sector Women’s charity. Our services are passionate about providing person-centered, trauma-informed care, and providing the best possible care experience for our service users.

We welcome applications from people interested in working with complex presentations, balancing clinical need with risk management. A core part 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 diverse backgrounds with an interest in enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences and have a history of offending behaviour.

Main duties of the job

The people we work with have often experienced significant difficulties throughout their lives and have varying relationships with services due to a complex interplay of factors. We work collaboratively alongside a multidisciplinary team and other partner organisations to ensure that these factors are held in mind. Balancing the needs of the service user is central to our work whilst also ensuring our staff are supported and feel valued.

We offer model-specific supervision in addition to individual supervision, management supervision, and group reflective spaces. Within the directorate, there are also colleagues trained in Schema Therapy and Narrative Therapy. As a forensic service, we balance interventions for mental health with offending needs, incorporating structured clinical judgement tools as routine practice within our work.

We value the breadth of skills that Practitioner Psychologists bring; therefore, alongside your therapeutic work, you will be supported to develop service provision using quality improvement (QI) and research methodology. We have specific workstreams that focus on shaping the broader system and culture via practice-based changes in areas such as family and carers, challenging health inequalities, and building better trauma-informed service provision.

The roles can be emotionally taxing requiring a robustness to manage the complex emotions and processes that occur. Working within Secure Care and Offender Health is challenging yet rewarding.

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

• Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical/forensic psychology 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

• 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.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

Knowledge

• 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.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively, and effectively communicate clinical and condition-related information to clients, their families, carers, and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS).
• 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).

Personal

• Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health problems and associated disabilities.
• Is a ‘team player’ and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives.

Other

• 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.

Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential. 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.

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 the 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 Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name: Carrie Ambrose

Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist

Email address: carrie.ambrose@nhs.net

Telephone number: 0121 301 4535

Please note that the Secure Care and Offender Health (SCOH) psychology service have several vacancies across the division currently out to advert. If you would like to be considered for multiple roles, please submit one application and indicate which other roles you would like to be considered for in your supporting information. We will be interviewing for all posts on the same day(s).

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