Senior Psychological Therapist - HMYOI Feltham

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

This post offers a very exciting opportunity to contribute to a high-quality Wellbeing service within HMYOI Feltham. We deliver high quality mental health and therapy services to individuals from a range of cultural and social backgrounds who are serving custodial sentences. We work alongside prison staff and third sector agencies to provide holistic and trauma sensitive care.
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, dedicated and motivated therapist to join us and work within our developing services. There will be a strong focus on trauma-informed psychological approaches (under the REFRESHED framework) and there will be opportunity for direct clinical work as well as working with system. Delivering training and supervision will be part of this role.
This post offers a very exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of REFRESHED, a trauma-informed framework, on Feltham B.
Support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation & training.
Participate in systemic clinical governance.
Offer clinical supervision to assistant, trainee & more junior psychologists &
other staff.
Utilise research skills for audit service development & research within the area served by the team/service.
Provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service to individuals, carers, families & groups, within & across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice & trust care pathways.
Clinically & professionally supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists & junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors & other staff as appropriate.
Provide consultation, mentorship, supervision & advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service & other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/settings as appropriate.
Contribute to the development, evaluation & monitoring of the team’s operational policies & services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation & audit, & to advise both service & professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological &/or organisational matters need addressing.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner. Our Health & Justice motto is “Caring NOT Judging” so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care mental health, intellectual disability, offender personality disorder and substance misuse services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the diverse communities we serve.
Our psychological professions have a strong sense of leadership and a distinct professional identity. There is an emphasis on Continuing Professional Development and developing your skills in line with your career progression goals. As a Trust, we are committed to staff development. We especially welcome applications from candidates with the valuable experience of the diverse social and cultural communities the Trust serves as we are seeking to ensure our psychology staffing has greater diversity and better represents local communities. The successful candidate will be supported to develop their career and flourish as a valued member of the psychology staff group. There are also a number of support systems within the Trust including staff peer networks.

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• The Senior Psychological Therapist role provides a comprehensive, highly specialist, trauma-informed therapeutic service to young adults and prison staff at HMYOI Feltham, including psychological assessment and therapy as well as advice and consultation on young adults’ psychological care to other members of the core team on given landings or units.
• The post involves contributing to the ‘REFRESHED framework through implementation until it becomes ‘normal practice’ in the prison, coordinating and support the team in the process of trauma-informed multi-disciplinary collaborative formulation, and providing clinical supervision, reflective practice, training and support to custodial colleagues and to members of the Healthcare team in their day-to-day management of young adults in the prison.

The Senior Psychological Therapist role provides a comprehensive, highly specialist, trauma-informed therapeutic service to young adults and prison staff at HMYOI Feltham, including psychological assessment and therapy as well as advice and consultation on young adults’ psychological care to other members of the core team on given landings or units.
The post involves contributing to the ‘REFRESHED framework through implementation until it becomes ‘normal practice’ in the prison, coordinating and support the team in the process of trauma-informed multi-disciplinary collaborative formulation, and providing clinical supervision, reflective practice, training and support to custodial colleagues and to members of the Healthcare team in their day-to-day management of young adults in the prison.
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