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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the role of the outreach lead.
To manage and maintain a caseload in line with current standards of psychological practice and consistent with agreed team approaches. This will be at least 50% of your role.
To have significant working knowledge of personality disorder and trauma, and the behaviours that come from high levels of distress.
To have close working relationships with our partnership providers and the wider prison, and to have a good understanding and knowledge of the client group and be able to communicate the needs of the Service User group within appropriate meetings and forums.
To hold a clinical caseload and provide individual and group therapy.
To communicate the results of assessment and interventions to other members of the multidisciplinary team including non-clinical staff, and to do so in a way that is accessible to all.
To communicate effectively, using the highest level of interpersonal andcommunication skills, within difficult situations such as to a service user who may be presenting as hostile and antagonistic and not wanting to receive information.
To develop formulations and treatment plans for the formal interventions and/or management of a residents mental health and behavioural problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the Fens.
To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to the understandingof the resident from a psychological perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
We are currently seeking a skilled and compassionate Senior Clinical Nurse Therapist to join our unique, dedicated team as part of the OPD Fens services located within a high secure male prison service.
This unique role offers the chance to provide mental health support in a challenging yet rewarding environment providing specialist mental health knowledge advise, consultation and a range of clinically based interventions ensuring that assessments, treatments and ongoing care as required is delivered within the prison environment.
The post will involve managerial responsibilities and working alongside the MDT and Service Manager ensuring continuity of care and close working relationships with our partners in NHFT.Tasks may involve you working outside of the Fens services including the residential wings, workshops, the health care centre and, at times, may involve attending prisoners who are temporarily based in Health Care, Segregation Unit, the Bridge or the Close Supervision Unit.
The post holder will develop and deliver specialist clinics that address the holistic needs of this population focussed on specialist needs related to trauma, personality difficulties and comorbid mental health conditions.
The post holder will provide specialist knowledge and interventions for the offenders within PD pathway (OPDP) using high quality, evidence-based specialist assessments and interventions. To ensure the provision of specialist advice, consultation, liaison, and education to professionals who work within and in conjunction with the OPDP Fens services.
To provide therapy and hold a clinical case load.
You will contribute to the ongoing review, development, and delivery of Mental Health training and education to other staff. To work jointly with staff from a variety of other services.
To liaise and consult with the Fens Services Consultant Psychiatrist, the NHFT Psychiatrist, the primary health care team, and secondary MH teams within the prison.
To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding the management of moderate and severe MH conditions, supporting referrals to specialist NHS services where appropriate.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the role of the outreach lead.
To manage and maintain a caseload in line with current standards of psychological practice and consistent with agreed team approaches. This will be at least 50% of your role.
To have significant working knowledge of personality disorder and trauma, and the behaviours that come from high levels of distress.
To have close working relationships with our partnership providers and the wider prison, and to have a good understanding and knowledge of the client group and be able to communicate the needs of the Service User group within appropriate meetings and forums.
To hold a clinical caseload and provide individual and group therapy.
To communicate the results of assessment and interventions to other members of the multidisciplinary team including non-clinical staff, and to do so in a way that is accessible to all.
To communicate effectively, using the highest level of interpersonal andcommunication skills, within difficult situations such as to a service user who may be presenting as hostile and antagonistic and not wanting to receive information.
To develop formulations and treatment plans for the formal interventions and/or management of a residents mental health and behavioural problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the Fens.
To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to the understandingof the resident from a psychological perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
We are currently seeking a skilled and compassionate Senior Clinical Nurse Therapist to join our unique, dedicated team as part of the OPD Fens services located within a high secure male prison service.
This unique role offers the chance to provide mental health support in a challenging yet rewarding environment providing specialist mental health knowledge advise, consultation and a range of clinically based interventions ensuring that assessments, treatments and ongoing care as required is delivered within the prison environment.
The post will involve managerial responsibilities and working alongside the MDT and Service Manager ensuring continuity of care and close working relationships with our partners in NHFT.Tasks may involve you working outside of the Fens services including the residential wings, workshops, the health care centre and, at times, may involve attending prisoners who are temporarily based in Health Care, Segregation Unit, the Bridge or the Close Supervision Unit.
The post holder will develop and deliver specialist clinics that address the holistic needs of this population focussed on specialist needs related to trauma, personality difficulties and comorbid mental health conditions.
The post holder will provide specialist knowledge and interventions for the offenders within PD pathway (OPDP) using high quality, evidence-based specialist assessments and interventions. To ensure the provision of specialist advice, consultation, liaison, and education to professionals who work within and in conjunction with the OPDP Fens services.
To provide therapy and hold a clinical case load.
You will contribute to the ongoing review, development, and delivery of Mental Health training and education to other staff. To work jointly with staff from a variety of other services.
To liaise and consult with the Fens Services Consultant Psychiatrist, the NHFT Psychiatrist, the primary health care team, and secondary MH teams within the prison.
To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding the management of moderate and severe MH conditions, supporting referrals to specialist NHS services where appropriate.
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