The Fen’s service are recruiting a band 7 Mental Health Practitioner. This is an opportunity for either an MH Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker to join The Fen’s Service, a specialist trauma focused treatment unit located within a male high‑risk prison.
Our treatment draws on attachment theory and incorporates schema focused therapy, along with a range of short‑term interventions such as EMDR, CBT, CAT and others. Through a combination of individual and group therapies, patients are given opportunities to heal from complex trauma, to improve wellbeing and reduce risk.
We will support you in broadening your therapeutic skills, with specialist funded and in‑house training, and there are opportunities to further your research interests through our links with universities.
The role is a permanent, full‑time position with scope to complete some work from home.
Responsibilities
* Ensure the systematic provision of a high‑quality specialist clinical intervention consistent with the approved theoretical treatment model for prisoners referred to The Fens Unit.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of both the Trust’s and The Fens Unit’s policies and procedures.
* Exercise responsibility for the maintenance and development of good clinical and professional practice.
* Ensure that the delivery of clinical care is reflective of evidence‑based practice and research within the framework of healthcare governance.
* Carry out audit, policy and service development and research activities and/or programmes.
* Propose and implement relevant policy and service development changes in relation to clinical practice within The Fens Unit.
* Develop and deliver specialist clinics that address the holistic needs of this population.
* Develop therapeutic approach within the concept of a cognitive interpersonal theory juxtaposed with sensory‑motor psychotherapy principles.
* Support delivery and management of psychopharmacological interventions where appropriate, within the infrastructure of NICE guidelines.
* Exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the clinical assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and manage and maintain a caseload in line with current standards of practitioner/therapist practice.
* Communicate the results of assessment and interventions to other members of the multidisciplinary team, and to the prisoner, using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills.
* Develop plans for formal clinical interventions and/or management of a prisoner’s mental health and behavioural problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence of efficacy.
* Ensure participation of the clinical model in the development, implementation and evaluation of appropriate interventions, individually and in group.
* Provide specialist professional advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing to the management of prisoners’ symptoms and treatment.
* Ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to the understanding of the prisoner from a nursing perspective, through provision of advice and consultation and dissemination of specialist knowledge pertaining to your relevant profession.
* Use highly specialist clinical/professional knowledge to undertake ongoing risk assessment and risk management for individual prisoners, and provide advice to risk management in line with the OPDP Planning and Delivery Guide and Trust and inter‑agency policies.
* Work in partnership with other disciplines to help establish and maintain trans‑disciplinary team working and care programme approach.
* Take a leading role within trans‑disciplinary team meetings, providing direct input and communicating information on assessments, formulations and interventions.
About the Trust
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, and to support and empower them to lead a fulfilling life.
Equal Opportunities
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 20 May 2026.
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