About this role
Job summary
Would you like to be part of a psychologically led, informed service working with probation staff to manage service users under probation supervision presenting with complex issues associated with attachment and trauma and with managing relationships?
Would you like to work as a part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team where your opinion counts and your voice is valued and heard?
Do you want to be part of making a real-life difference to service users who are complex and challenging, but where real life changes can be and are made?
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to join the Hampshire & IOW Multiagency Personality Service (HMAPS). This post is offered at either Band 8a or Band 7 with a preceptorship leading to Band 8a on successful completion.
We are a specialised community service commissioned by NHS England (NHSE) and His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). The service comprises of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and Intensive Interventions and Risk Management (IIRMS) service lines.
The service also provides consultation to NHS teams working with individuals likely to have personality disorder / identified personality difficulties and are at high risk of harm to others/offending. Under our IIRMS service, psychological case management, psychoeducational interventions and outreach is provided directly to a caseload of high-risk offenders.
Main duties of the job
HMAPS is a psychologically led multidisciplinary team providing psychological formulation, consultation, and training to the National Probation Service within Hampshire, to support the probation staff with formulation-based psychological ways of working with people under probation supervision who have personality difficulties linked to their offending behaviour.
Intervention aims to expedite the care pathway of offenders in the community and prisons. The aim is to ensure that intervention and management is psychologically informed through both training and supervision. There is a strong focus on provision of training to enhance psychological understanding across the workforce.
The service is based in Ravenswood House, Fareham, but the work is delivered in a range of NHS and non-NHS (e.g., Probation offices) premises across Hampshire. There is a strong commitment to professional development and an understanding that regular clinical supervision and reflective practice is central to the role.
We are looking for either an experienced Clinical/Forensic Psychologist (Band 8a), a Band 7 with the competencies and experience to apply for 8a, or someone who is looking for a development opportunity as part of a preceptorship (Band 7 developing into Band 8a).
The successful applicant will be required to pass Probation Vetting procedures as part of pre-employment checks.
For further information / informal discussion please contact Dr Helen Stanley, Consultant Lead for OPD on : [email protected]
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. Training in Clinical Supervision HCPC Registration Nonclinical psychologists must be able to demonstrate competencies in the above
Desirable
Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and or other fields of applied psychology. Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of practice. Specialist training in personality disorder.
Experience Essential
Experience as qualified psychologist post training. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of settings including outpatient, community, and inpatient settings. Experience of working with personality disorder and ability to maintain 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 directly with staff to provide supervision, reflection, and formulation of client difficulties. Experience of teaching and training.
Desirable
Experience of working in forensic services, inpatient and/or secure services, or with challenging behaviour. Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. Experience of working in Probation and/or Prison.
Additional Criteria Essential
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information. Skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups. Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (ie personality disorder). Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Car driver.
Desirable
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental heath. Enthusiasm for working within forensic mental health services and the personal resilience to do so.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Ravenswood House
Mayles Lane, Knowle
Fareham
Hampshire
PO17 5NA
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)