Highly Specialist Clinical Practitioner - HMYOI Feltham A

Central andNorth WestLondon NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health,intellectualdisabilityand substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.

In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated,innovativeand enthusiasticHighly Specialist Clinical Practitionerto join our forward thinking, friendly and expandingHealth & JusticeteamatHMYOI Feltham A.

Main duties of the job

Provide a comprehensive specialist therapeutic service to young people at HMYOI Feltham in line with the principles & specifications of the SECURE STAIRS project.

Provide specialist psychological assessment & therapy as well as offering advice & consultation on young people's psychological care to other members of the core team on a given landing or unit.

Coordinate & support the team in the process of multi-disciplinary collaborative formulation.

Develop & facilitate a range of therapeutic groups including weekly community meetings.

Work 'through the gate' on transition & resettlement for young people leaving custody, including meetings following release outside the establishment.

Supervise assistant psychologists, students & graduate psychologists.

Support & participate fully in the work of the HWBT, including attending team meetings, Reflective Practice & Staff Support groups.

Work autonomously within professional guidelines &d the overall framework of the service's policies & procedures.

Utilise research skills for audit, policy & service development & research.

Provide clinical supervision to other members of the team or custodial service when appropriate, including in the event of a serious or significant incident.

Offer training to prison staff & other professional colleagues around therapeutic skills, adolescent mental health & related issues.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential

• Degree in Psychology or a related field, accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) or Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or equivalent professional body.
• For psychology candidates; Doctoral level training in clinical, forensic or counselling 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
• OR A recognised professional post-graduate qualification in Systemic Therapy, Family Therapy, Arts Therapies, Psychotherapy or relevant core mental health professional therapeutic training. oHCPC Registered
• HCPC/UKCP registration or similar bodies

Desirable

• Pre- or Post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Further training in a specific trauma therapy e.g. EMDR, NET, TF-CBT
• Family therapy qualification / training
• Further training in reflective practice
• Further training in forensic mental health or forensic psychology
• Further training in yoga or mindfulness-based approaches.

Experience

Essential

• 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 representing psychology or a given therapeutic discipline within the context of multi-disciplinary care
• Experience/understanding of working with adolescents/young people

Desirable

• Experience of teaching and training
• Experience of working within a secure setting, prison or hospital.
• Experience working with adolescents with complex needs.
• Experience of clinical work in the field of harmful sexual behaviour or sexual health.
• Experience of running reflective practice or staff groups.
• Experience of offering clinical supervision.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the fields of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
• Possesses range of clinical knowledge, skills & information technology expertise relevant to post.
• Can demonstrate competence in supervision of junior psychology and MDT staff
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Broad knowledge of models of assessment, management and treatment of offenders with mental health difficulties.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g. people with additional disabilities).
• Can apply psychological knowledge creatively in developing new initiatives.
• Ability to write high quality reports for varied audiences, including courts and purchasers of services.

About the employer

Central andNorth WestLondon NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through: