Bank Trainee Forensic Psychologist

Job overview

Resettle & Reintegrate (Intensive Intervention & Risk Management Services) are innovative community services, providing an alternative approach to enhancing the lives of service users who have complex needs due to their personality related needs and offending histories. We are a true partnership model between Merseycare NHS Trust, the Probation Service and Merseyside Police and are part of the Offender Personality Pathway. The Intervention model is psychologically informed; providing holistic and systemic intervention and adopting therapeutic community and sociotherapy principles. Participants have struggled to function within society, spending a large proportion of their adulthood in prison. The intervention offers a structured timetable for up to 20 individuals, 4 days per week over a period of 2 years. It is an accredited Enabling Environment, recognised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist the service in conducting interventions focused upon emotional wellbeing and offending behaviour , as well as work part of a multi-disciplinary team.

They will have opportunities to develop competencies for Stage II  Forensic Psychology training. They will be supervised by a Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To assist the nominated intervention lead with the development, delivery and maintenance of evidence based offending intervention initiatives for a high risk and complex group of individuals, with such initiatives to include individual and group therapy and to account for the development  and refinement of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.  2. To provide complex, sensitive and contentious information to service users presenting with a range of offence related risks, medium to high risk for aggression, attending to the principles of motivational interviewing and feedback, and managing personal exposure to highly distressing or  emotional circumstances /material.  3. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for clients referred to the team for offence  related difficulties, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests,  self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.  4. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of a service user’s offending difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their complex problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. 5. To deliver psychological intervention to service users, as required and directed by the lead.

6. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment and management plans of service users, and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.  7. To communicate psychological assessments and formulations via a written psychological report, as and when directed by the nominated psychology lead.