Job overview
North London Forensic Collaborative and the South London Partnership are working together to provide a pan London, specialist, primary care Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) Service for men. This post is hosted by Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust and will hold responsibility for the psychological oversight of the MHTR services provided by Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust, East London NHS Foundation Trust, North East London NHS Foundation Trust and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop this newly commissioned MHTR service to reduce custodial sentences and improve the wellbeing of men in the criminal justice system with mental health needs.
Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) were introduced by the Criminal Justice Act in 2003, recognising that for many individuals who offend, mental health and substance misuse issues underpin their offending behaviour. Treatment requirements offer courts an alternative to short custodial sentences and aim to prevent reoffending by addressing underlying vulnerabilities and improving quality of life. This service aims to increase the use of primary care treatment requirements as part of a community sentence, offering psychologically informed interventions and advice. The MHTR Service will also provide the courts with information and confidence to sentence to robust and effective treatment requirements.
Main duties of the job
This unique role will lead on the model fidelity across London, ensuring shared learning and good practice and clinically representing the service as part of the national delivery of MHTR’s.
We are keen that this role supports our services development and growth as the service is mobilised and becomes an established and accessible community resource for men who are receiving community court disposals.
The postholder will chair the pan-London MHTR Clinical Network and will clinically supervise the five clinical leads responsible for local delivery across London.
Clear supervision lines and service agreements will facilitate a collaborative, stakeholder informed, cohesive service.
Working for our organisation
By joining the North London Forensic Consortium and the South London Partnership you will be joining a large department of psychologists and psychological therapists that provide an array of mental health and OPD services across London, Surrey, Kent and Bucks. Our staff are dynamic and welcoming and the networking and CPD opportunities are central to our services ethos. We have active research forums and promote our services and work through academic and clinical forums. All staff receive regular supervision and are supported with career aspirations and progression.
This post is hosted by CNWL. Click to find out more about working within the psychological professions at CNWL
CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. With us, you will get -
A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.
An opportunity to work for one of the top 10 NHS employers
Flexible working
Variety of work
Access to a variety of CPD opportunities
We encourage staff input and ideas in relation to moving services forward, improving care pathways and meeting the client group’s needs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To hold the position of clinical lead, for the pan-London MHTR service at senior North London Forensic Consortium (NLFC) and South London Partnership (SLP) management and commissioner led meetings and to chair the pan-London MHTR Clinical Network, ensuring learning from local and national best practice and initiating action as appropriate.
2. To be responsible for the good clinical and risk governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of psychologists and psychological therapists of the pan-London MHTR service and provide clinical supervision to the 8b service leads for all the London Trusts providing this service (CNWL, Oxleas, NELFT and ELFT).
3. To lead for the service on interface with the national MHTR programme
4. To engage with key stakeholders to facilitate the operation of Men's MHTR services in London including to communicate service model and policies to external and internal partners and agencies in conjunction with professional and operational managers.
5. To be responsible for the monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of applied psychology and psychotherapy in the MHTR service and for the systematic and effective provision of professional supervision.
6. To be responsible for the good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of the psychologists and psychological therapists of the MHTR service, ensuring model consistency and service specification fidelity across the London Men’s MHTR services and being responsible, alongside service managers/clinical leads, for ensuring the services perform to the required standard for commissioners, NLFC, SLP and NHSE.
Please see attached document for full Job Description and Person Specification.
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