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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
Resettle & Reintegrate (Intensive Intervention & Risk Management Services) are innovative community services, providing an alternative approach to enhancing the lives of service users who have complex needs due to their personality related needs and offending histories. We are a true partnership model between Merseycare NHS Trust, the Probation Service and Merseyside Police and are part of the Offender Personality Pathway. The Intervention model is psychologically informed; providing holistic and systemic intervention and adopting therapeutic community and sociotherapy principles. Participants have struggled to function within society, spending a large proportion of their adulthood in prison. The intervention offers a structured timetable for up to 20 individuals, 4 days per week over a period of 2 years. It is an accredited Enabling Environment, recognised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will assist the service in conducting interventions focused upon emotional wellbeing and offending behaviour, as well as work part of a multi-disciplinary team.
They will have opportunities to develop competencies for Stage II Forensic Psychology training. They will be supervised by a Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To assist the nominated intervention lead with the development, delivery and maintenance of evidence based offending intervention initiatives for a high risk and complex group of individuals, with such initiatives to include individual and group therapy and to account for the development
and refinement of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
2. To provide complex, sensitive and contentious information to service users presenting with a range of offence related risks, medium to high risk for aggression, attending to the principles of motivational interviewing and feedback, and managing personal exposure to highly distressing or
emotional circumstances /material.
3. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for clients referred to the team for offence
related difficulties, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests,
self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
4. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of a service user’s offending difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their complex problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
5. To deliver psychological intervention to service users, as required and directed by the lead.
6. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment and management plans of service users, and to monitor and evaluateprogress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.
7. To communicate psychological assessments and formulations via a written psychological report, as and when directed by the nominated psychology lead.
Person specification
Qualifications
* At least a 2:1 degree in psychology with Graduate Basis for Registration [GBR] or equivalent
* BPS Accredited M.Sc. in Forensic Psychology to merit level or above and/or with a merit or above in the dissertation
* Current registration with and progress in achieving DFP Stage II competencies
Knowledge
* At least one-year previous employment in a paid or honorary assistant/trainee psychologist (or equivalent) position involving direct clinical contact with individuals with complex mental health and/or offending treatment needs
* Knowledge of a range of research methodologies that could be applied in a forensic setting, and competency in the use of statistical packages (e.g., SPSS)
* Understanding of the DFP stage II route and commitment to achieving the competencies and compiling the written evidence required as part of this process
* Evidence of a commitment towards continuing professional development
* Demonstrated progress in achieving DFP Stage II competencies
* Evidence of formal training in the use of Structured Professional Judgement tools (e.g., HCR-20v3)
* Evidence of formal training in the use and interpretation of cognitive/neuro assessments (e.g., the WAIS-IV)
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessment and treatment methodologies
Skills
* Demonstrable skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, treatment and management 24/07/2024 frequently requiring sustained concentration
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and/or nonprofessional groups appropriate to level of competence
values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Other
* Ability to professionally represent the psychology team
* Appropriate health record according to individual needs
* Appropriate professional presentation
* Commitment to team and multidisciplinary working
* Commitment to ongoing personal and professional development/training
* Hard working and self-motivated
* Awareness of confidentiality issues, including the limits of this
* Must have enhanced DBS status [or be eligible for this on application]
* Willing to complete Control and Restraint Training and maintain this level of training
* Willing and able to work flexible hours in order to meet the needs of the service
* Interest in researching clinical outcome measures and in the development of applied psychological research
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Dr Sue Ryan Job title Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist Email address sue.ryan@justice.gov.uk Telephone number 0151 832 3340
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