Please be advised that Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has decided to serve notice on its offender health contracts. Over the coming months, we will work with NHS England to transition these services to Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, which will become the new provider. We still need to recruit for these valued positions and welcome your application. Please note that successful candidates' recruitment and employment would transfer from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, who would then be your new employer.
We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate B7 Counsellor or CBT/EMDR Therapist to join our Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) based in HMP Lincoln. You will join a dynamic multidisciplinary team supporting adults with secondary care level mental health difficulties in a category B local remand prison setting. Our team is committed to implementing psychologically informed care through shared goals and initiatives. Psychology is integrated within the team through Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, Counsellors, and Assistant Psychologists, delivering individual and group therapies, psychoeducation, and stabilization skills. We offer regular CPD, training, development opportunities, and specialist supervision in CBT/EMDR if required.
The psychological team supports service delivery through consultation, training, supervision, and service development. We work closely together in regular psychology meetings to share reflective space and promote learning. Psychologists are part of the leadership team within the service and the wider Trust. You will be supported to attend regular Psychological Therapies Service development meetings, supported by the wider PT service.
This is a full-time position, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with options for flexible working. As an Integrative Counsellor, EMDR/CBT Therapist, you will provide planned recovery-focused care and high-intensity interventions to service users. Your responsibilities will include:
1. Working flexibly and creatively with a dynamic caseload, conducting assessments, developing and sharing CBT/counselling formulations, and delivering CBT therapy, integrative counselling, or EMDR.
2. Contributing to the development, delivery, and evaluation of group interventions.
3. Collaborating as an integral member of the MDT to deliver joint work, promote psychological approaches, and contribute to care plans.
4. Providing supervision and training within your scope of competencies to junior colleagues.
TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues delivering services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire, from over 200 sites including community, acute, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and a major employer in Nottinghamshire. We host national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health. Our employee networks support diversity and inclusion, including EDI groups, Green Champions, and others. We prioritize staff health and wellbeing through in-house occupational health and counselling services. The Trust is committed to environmental sustainability, working towards net-zero emissions.
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