Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Task and Responsibilities
To travel to clinical venues, training activities and meetings as appropriate and across the Trust when required.

To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group and follow trust policies relating to its management.

To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations of people in distress or in crisis and who may be abusive and to support others involved in such situations.

To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics or Saturday working, within the overall Job Plan.

Working closely with professional and operational leads in the forensic and offender healthcare directorate, to be responsible for the delivery of a psychology assessment and intervention service in prison healthcare across Forensic and Offender Healthcare.

To liaise closely with Oxleas’ wider inreach mental health services to ensure psychological provision is available, when appropriate, to people with emotional, interpersonal and forensic / violence and aggression treatment needs across Forensic and Offender Healthcare

To support the Trust’s ambition to deliver great care, out of hospital and achieve zero delays.

Providing oversight of the clinical model and ensuring adherence to model integrity including throughout assessments and interventions.

Being the point of contact at secondary care mental health services and facilitate movement of clients between those services and others and providing support to clinicians within those services as necessary.

Developing and overseeing a system for forensic psychology consultations to the wider secondary care teams and other staff across the Forensic and Offender Healthcare directorate as appropriate.
 

To line manage and supervise psychological therapists, lived experience practitioners and pre-qualified psychological therapists who are directly employed by the William Morris Centre, and to liaise with the line managers of those employed in split posts.

To develop service user involvement and lived experience practitioner roles in the service.

Responsibility for quality and performance of the psychological therapies offer, overseeing completion of quarterly and annual monitoring reports as well as clinical audits.

To be responsible to the operational lead for workforce planning, including staff engagement, fair recruitment, professional appraisal, and staff continuing professional development activities.

To work closely with the administrator, psychological therapists, and operational leads to ensure there are efficient administrative systems in place to effectively manage referrals, waiting lists, and recording of clinical activity and outcomes.

To support the budget holder for the service to manage the specialty within the specified budget.

To initiate audit, policy and service development and research activities within the service to ensure the delivery of a reflexive, high quality, and financially efficient service with a sound basis in evidence-based treatment and best clinical practice.

To effectively foster and develop relationships with both internal and external partners in the criminal justice system, primary and secondary care services and non-statutory third sector organisations.

To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the prison populations.

The postholder will be an authentic, compassionate, and inspiring leader who acts as a role model and champions the Trust’s vision and values.

The postholder will build a service where people feel valued, developed, and supported and where the Oxleas values are role-modelled.

The postholder will be responsible for enabling all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
 
To support the clinical lead in contributing service development, and to attend relevant meetings and clinical forums.

To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry, in those parts of the service for which the post-holder has management or leadership responsibility.

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a senior psychological practitioner according to professional and Trust guidelines.

To maintain own Continuing Professional Development in line with registered body and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements.

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.

To comply with the registered body Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics/Standards of Proficiency.

To ensure that all psychological practitioners for whom the post-holder has leadership or management responsibility, maintain professional standards and continuing professional development.

Maintaining standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating bodies e.g., the UKCP, BABCP & HCPC etc.

Ensuring all aspects of confidentiality relating to both the service and individuals are maintained.

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.  

Proof of right to work documentation 

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation 

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. 

Address History: 

5 years address history will be needed.  

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. 

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants