Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Clinical Lead
The closing date is 27 October 2025
The Inspires service is part of the national Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and comprises of 4 services within HMP Swinfen Hall: a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE), a residential treatment (Delta Enabling Environment), a non-residential treatment service (NRTS) and an Enhanced Support Service (ESS) working with service users housed across the prison. Our service users, who are aged between 18 and 28, have histories of trauma and complex presentations.
We are looking for a Clinical Lead for our ESS service which provides psychological interventions and support for a small number of service users who cause significant disruption within the prison. The successful candidate may be an experienced psychologist or psychotherapist eligible for an 8a post or a more recently qualified band 7 as a preceptorship. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Psychologist or Psychotherapist to lead a successful, and innovative service working with young adults in prison. The successful candidate will join a large, multi-disciplinary team providing outstanding opportunities for professional development. You will also benefit from being part of NHFT's Specialist and Secured Services Psychology network.
Main duties of the job
Your role will involve:
* Clinical responsibility for all aspects of the service
* Delivering person centered interventions to young adults presenting with challenging behaviour
* Providing clinical supervision and reflective practice for the team
* Consultation and advice for wider prison
* Delivering training to wider prison
* Service evaluation and development
The service utilises a relational approach and a flexible, person-centered model to meet the needs of individual service users. The ESS team comprises of a Clinical Lead, a Prison Officer, a mental health nurse and an administrator.
You will be expected to provide clinical supervision to the team. This will include contributing to the reflective practice, training and critical thinking of the team and in meetings for service improvement.
You will also need to be able to provide core psychological and therapeutic interventions in line with trauma informed care. In doing so, you will be responsible for adhering to relevant service Operational Procedures and Trust policies along with professional ethics and standards.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working in prison setting
* Experience of supervising multi-disciplinary teams including Prison staff
Qualifications
* Professional registration
* Trained and experienced in delivering at least 2 psychological therapies
* Able to work autonomously
* Experience of working in OPD services
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.
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
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