Overview
We are currently seeking a skilled and compassionate Senior Clinical Nurse Therapist to join our unique, dedicated team as part of the OPD Fens services located within a high secure male prison service.
This role provides mental health support in a challenging yet rewarding environment, delivering specialist mental health knowledge, advice, consultation and a range of clinically based interventions to ensure assessments, treatments and ongoing care are delivered within the prison environment.
Responsibilities
* Provide therapy and hold a clinical caseload.
* Develop and deliver specialist clinics addressing the holistic needs of the population, focusing on trauma, personality difficulties and comorbid mental health conditions.
* Provide specialist knowledge and interventions for offenders within the PD pathway (OPDP) using high-quality, evidence-based assessments and interventions.
* Offer specialist advice, consultation, liaison, and education to professionals who work within and in conjunction with the OPDP Fens services.
* Contribute to ongoing review, development, and delivery of Mental Health training and education to other staff, working jointly with staff from a variety of services.
* Liaise and consult with the Fens Services Consultant Psychiatrist, the NHFT Psychiatrist, the primary health care team, and secondary MH teams within the prison.
* Provide specialist advice and consultation regarding the management of moderate and severe mental health conditions, supporting referrals to specialist NHS services where appropriate.
* Work outside of Fens services when required (e.g., residential wings, workshops, health care centre) and attend prisoners with temporary placements in Health Care, Segregation Unit, the Bridge or the Close Supervision Unit as needed.
* Develop and deliver training and education to staff, contributing to the ongoing development of mental health knowledge within the organisation.
* Communicate assessment and intervention results effectively to multidisciplinary team members and non-clinical staff in accessible language.
* Develop formulations and treatment plans for formal interventions and/or management of residents’ mental health and behavioral problems, based on evidence-based frameworks and across the Fen’s.
* Ensure members of the clinical team understand the resident from a psychological perspective through advice, consultation, and dissemination of psychological research and theory.
* Maintain close working relationships with partnership providers and the wider prison, understanding the client group and communicating needs in appropriate meetings and forums.
* To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for psychological assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the role of the outreach lead (at least 50% of the role).
Qualifications and Experience
* Significant working knowledge of personality disorder and trauma, and the behaviours associated with high levels of distress.
* Experience in managing a caseload in line with current standards of psychological practice and agreed team approaches.
* Ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders, including service users who may present as hostile or unwilling to engage.
* Experience in developing formulations and treatment plans and delivering both individual and group therapies.
About Us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver NHS services in inpatient, primary care, and community settings across children’s, adult, and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
Equal Opportunities
To achieve our goal, we recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Additional Information
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the role of the outreach lead.
To manage and maintain a caseload in line with current standards of psychological practice and consistent with agreed team approaches. This will be at least 50% of your role.
To have significant working knowledge of personality disorder and trauma, and the behaviours that come from high levels of distress.
To have close working relationships with our partnership providers and the wider prison, and to have a good understanding and knowledge of the client group and be able to communicate the needs of the Service User group within appropriate meetings and forums.
To hold a clinical caseload and provide individual and group therapy.
To communicate the results of assessment and interventions to other members of the multidisciplinary team including non-clinical staff, and to do so in a way that is accessible to all.
To communicate effectively, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, within difficult situations such as to a service user who may be presenting as hostile and antagonistic and not wanting to receive information.
To develop formulations and treatment plans for the formal interventions and/or management of a resident’s mental health and behavioural problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the Fen’s.
To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to the understanding of the resident from a psychological perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Sep 2025
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