Opportunities for Professional Growth, As part of the CNWL, there are various pathways for career development and advancement within a diverse range of mental health services.
Autonomy in Practice, The role allows for exercising professional independence in assessing and treating service users, which can lead to a greater sense of job satisfaction.
Impactful Work, By providing psychological therapy in a prison setting, the role offers the chance to make a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals facing complex mental health issues.
Collaborative Environment, The position involves working alongside a multidisciplinary team, fostering collaboration and sharing of diverse perspectives and expertise.
Contributions to Service Improvement, The role includes participating in reflective practice and critical thinking to enhance service delivery, promoting continuous improvement in psychological care.
Engagement in Research and Development, The opportunity to utilize research skills for audits and service development allows for involvement in evidence-based practices that can influence future policies.
The role of Psychological Therapist at HMP Aylesbury, under the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, involves providing specialized psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions to service users within a prison setting. The therapist will work autonomously, contributing to the overall mental health team by offering expert advice and consultation, conducting comprehensive psychological assessments, formulating treatment plans, and implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions. This position requires collaboration with multidisciplinary team members to enhance patient care, facilitate complex case reviews, and support service improvement initiatives.
Candidates must have a strong academic background in psychology, including a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), along with substantial post-qualification experience in various clinical settings. They should demonstrate expertise in psychological assessment, treatment across diverse client groups, and a commitment to high-quality patient care. The successful applicant will also engage in clinical supervision, risk assessment, and contribute to a culture of reflection and learning within the team, while aligning with the Trust's values of patient-centered service delivery.
Candidates must have a strong academic background in psychology, including a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), along with substantial post-qualification experience in various clinical settings. They should demonstrate expertise in psychological assessment, treatment across diverse client groups, and a commitment to high-quality patient care. The successful applicant will also engage in clinical supervision, risk assessment, and contribute to a culture of reflection and learning within the team, while aligning with the Trust's values of patient-centered service delivery.
Job Overview
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
- To provide a key role in integrating Psychological Therapist into the mental health team.
- To provide a comprehensive specialist Psychological Therapist service to service users.
- To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy as well as offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to other members of the clinical team.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Offender Health Directorate.
- To provide clinical supervision to other members of the team when appropriate.
- To contribute to the reflective practice and critical thinking of the team on a case-by-case basis (e.g. complex case reviews) and in meetings for service improvement.
- Source and make available appropriate evidence based psychologically informed assessment tools. Including self-rating, rating scales, structured and semi structured interviews and provide appropriate training on their use within the multidisciplinary team to ensure these are embedded as part of a holistic assessment of mental health within the team.
- To provide specialist psychological assessments to service users within the Prison based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex 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 service users and others involved in the service users’ care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health and personality problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, and groups, within the Prison, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
- To integrate with the psychological formulation specialist knowledge of complex mental health disorders.
- To understand the role of physical treatments for complex mental health disorders, and to offer appropriate advice to the patient, carers and clinicians in the light of such understanding.
- To liaise closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team, giving authoritative specialist advice on psychological aspects of care, contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment planning.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all those who use the service.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice and training to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A good honours degree in Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, equivalent to that accredited by the BPS.
- Evidence of post-qualification specialist training, experience and developing expertise in a specialist area of clinical practice.
- HCPC Registered
- Pre- or Post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours, experience as a clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist, or an alternative agreed by the Chief Psychologist.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working effectively in multidisc
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