Practitioner Psychologist

Job overview

The Inspires service is part of the national Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and comprises of 3 services within HMP Swinfen Hall, a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE), a residential assessment and treatment (Delta Enabling Environment) service for young men with emerging personality traits, a non-residential treatment service and an Enhanced Support Service (ESS) working with service users housed across the prison. Our service users, who are aged between 18 and 28, have histories of trauma.  We are looking for a practitioner psychologist to work within our treatment services.

You will be required to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service; to aid the development of the evidence base on the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway, specifically for young adults.

Main duties of the job

The role will include providing specialist psychological assessments, producing collaborative formulations, treatment planning and delivering individual and group psychotherapeutic interventions as appropriate to your professional qualifications and training.  The service utilises a flexible, person-centred approach to meet the needs of individual service users and a wide range of different interventions and approaches are delivered.  This includes Compassion Focussed Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Mentalisation Based Treatment, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, tree of life groups, sensory integration work, Occupational Therapy, Dramatherapy, and psychodynamic approaches.

You will be expected to provide clinical supervision to Prison Officers who work therapeutically within the DEE team.  This will include contributing to the reflective practice, training and critical thinking of the team and in meetings for service improvement.

You will also need to be able to provide treatment and core psychological interventions in line with trauma informed care.  In doing so, you will be responsible for adhering to relevant service Operational Procedures and Trust policies and professional ethics and standards and will be accountable for professional and clinical actions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.