About this role
Job summary
Do you thrive on team working and providing collaborative complex formulations and consultation? Would you like to use these to help improve the wellbeing and recovery of individuals who are in the Criminal Justice System? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to join our established Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Service as maternity cover to the Eastbourne and Hastings Probation offices.
The OPD Community Pathways Partnership provides consultation and training to probation staff working with high risk individuals who are screened into the pathway due to identification of personality difficulties or traits.
The wider core OPD pathway provides a 'wrap around' service for people on probation with a wide range of psychological difficulties. It anticipates that pathways for this client group are non-linear, complex and often challenging. The model strives to provide consistency in the form of robust relational engagement between the Person on Probation and the probation officers (known as Community Offender Manager, COMs).
Main duties of the job
You will have extensive experience in working with individuals with personality difficulties, provision of training and in offering supervision/consultation to health and/or criminal justice staff.
Your role is to support the COM with the range of skills and additional knowledge to help manage the challenges of the client group with complex personality presentations. These include providing collaborative consultation and formulation, completed between you, the COM and where applicable, the Person on Probation. You will provide monthly training to the probation team on a variety of aspects of personality difficulties, discuss challenging case presentations and assist staff to reflect on the impact of working with this group of people.
As a team we often drawn on schema and trauma informed approaches and we welcome applicants with an interest in this area. All roles within our team have access to national and local OPD training and continuing professional development is actively encouraged and supported.
About us
At Sussex Partnership we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to as advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.
If you haven't thought about living in Sussex before then you should consider the following:
o Journey from the coast to the countryside in minutes
o Enjoy a lifestyle where there are renowned cycle routes and picturesque walks, including the famous South Downs Way in the South Downs National Park!
o Embrace taking time to discover all the miles of scenic coastline, including Hastings, Bexhill on Sea and Eastbourne
o Easy access to airports - Gatwick and Heathrow are both within 90 minutes of the county, providing links to Europe and beyond
o Brighton and Hove or London are within easy reach via local and national bus routes and national mainline stations
We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Job description Job responsibilities
Requirements:
To be skilled in providing consultation and generating collaborative formulations tailored to the needs of probation staff and passionate about increasing their knowledge and understanding of complex personality difficulties within forensic populations.
To be confident in working autonomously alongside different teams and open to appreciating the benefits and challenges of partnership working.
To be creative in offering training on personality difficulties to your teams, which upskills them in such a way that they the integrate psychologically informed understanding and reflection into their everyday practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent). Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
Knowledge/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 Demonstrate specialist experience gained postqualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours). Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. 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 teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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 Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Eastbourne Probation Office
35 Old Orchard Road
Eastbourne
BN21 1DD
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)