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To provide psychological support to Probation Officers within dedicated local delivery units (LDU) and approved premises in their management of high risk offenders identified as presenting with behaviour consistent with a personality disorder diagnosis. To work alongside probation colleagues to enhance the assessment and supervision of offenders and to support the implementation of the Personality Disordered Offender Pathway, aligned to the National Offender Personality Disorder Strategy.
The role will involve training and workforce development through consultation and training to probation practitioners and probation teams to enable an understanding of the psychological aspects of a client’s risk and the development of psychologically informed formulations and risk management plans.
The post will be within Mersey care NHS Foundation Trust Secure Division Offender Personality Disorder Service/enhanced care service and the role will be professionally connected to the MSU psychology service and report to a Consultant Psychologist and Principal clinical psychologist. The post holder will operate within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the LDU’s policies and procedures and will involve the utilisation of research skills for audit, policy and service evaluation within the area served by the team/service. The post holder will contribute to the operational management group and contribute to service audit and governance processes
Clinical
To provide specialist psychological consultation and formulation to probation practitioners to support them in the management and supervision of and intervention with people on probation.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological problems.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals
To develop skills in and undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
In common with all Clinical Psychologists, to receive regular supervision and management from senior professional colleagues.
To continue to gain wider post qualification experience of Clinical in line with BPS requirements.
To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching and training and to provide supervision to other staff’s psychological work, e.g. staff from other designations, as appropriate.
Research and Service Evaluation
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake appropriate research and project management.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Qualifications : Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
HPC registration as a clinical/counselling psychologist with Chartered Status
Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
Trained in care co-ordination
Evidence of continuing professional development
Knowledge and Experience
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,distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
Teaching, training and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
Research and