1x Permanent vacancy for Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist in CAMEO, Specialist Offender Personality Disorder Service
We are recruiting for a Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologists at CAMEO, a Personality Disorder service based at HMP Foston Hall. CAMEO is a specialist, intensive day treatment personality disorder service for high-risk women with complex needs. The service offers a range of psychological interventions, aiming to alleviate distress for the individual, improve emotional regulation and reduce levels of risk. CAMEO is part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPD) and is a partnership service between BSMHFT, HMPPS and Anawim, a third sector Women's charity. Our services are passionate about providing person centered, trauma informed care, and providing the best possible care experience for our service users.
We welcome applications from people interested in working with complex presentations, balancing clinical need with risk management. A core part will be to work alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines sharing psychological knowledge and consistently improving the psychological mindedness of the service. We are looking for people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences and have a history of offending behaviour.
Main duties of the job The people we work with have often experienced significant difficulties throughout their lives and have varying relationships with services due to a complex interplay of factors. We work collaboratively alongside a multidisciplinary team and other partner organisations, to ensure that these factors are held in mind. Balancing the needs of the service user is central to our work whilst also ensuring our staff are supported and feel valued.
We offer model-specific supervision in addition to individual supervision, management supervision and group reflective spaces. Within the directorate there are also colleagues trained in Schema Therapy and Narrative Therapy. As a forensic service, we balance interventions for mental health with offending needs, incorporating structured clinical judgement tools as routine practice within our work.
We value the breadth of skills that Practitioner Psychologists bring, therefore alongside your therapeutic work, you will be supported to develop service provision using quality improvement (QI) and research methodology. We have specific workstreams that focus on shaping the broader system and culture via practice-based changes in areas such as family and carers, challenging health inequalities, and building better trauma informed service provision.
The roles can be emotionally taxing requiring a robustness to manage the complex emotions and processes that occur. Working within Secure Care and Offender Health is challenging yet rewarding.
About us Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Job description Job responsibilities For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical/forensic psychology completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. Eligibility for entry onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists
Experience Essential Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including forensic contexts with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
Desirable Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' clients. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge Essential Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity. Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated or technical extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient or that is extremely contentious or challenging. Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific 'difficult to treat' groups (e.g. personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
Personal Essential Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health problems and associated disabilities Is a 'team player' and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
Other Essential Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively. Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice
Employer details Employer name Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Address HMP Foston Hall Derby DE65 5DN Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
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We welcome applications from people interested in working with complex presentations, balancing clinical need with risk management. A core part will be to work alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines sharing psychological knowledge and consistently improving the psychological mindedness of the service. We are looking for people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences and have a history of offending behaviour.
Main duties of the job The people we work with have often experienced significant difficulties throughout their lives and have varying relationships with services due to a complex interplay of factors. We work collaboratively alongside a multidisciplinary team and other partner organisations, to ensure that these factors are held in mind. Balancing the needs of the service user is central to our work whilst also ensuring our staff are supported and feel valued.
We offer model-specific supervision in addition to individual supervision, management supervision and group reflective spaces. Within the directorate there are also colleagues trained in Schema Therapy and Narrative Therapy. As a forensic service, we balance interventions for mental health with offending needs, incorporating structured clinical judgement tools as routine practice within our work.
We value the breadth of skills that Practitioner Psychologists bring, therefore alongside your therapeutic work, you will be supported to develop service provision using quality improvement (QI) and research methodology. We have specific workstreams that focus on shaping the broader system and culture via practice-based changes in areas such as family and carers, challenging health inequalities, and building better trauma informed service provision.
The roles can be emotionally taxing requiring a robustness to manage the complex emotions and processes that occur. Working within Secure Care and Offender Health is challenging yet rewarding.
About us Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Job description Job responsibilities For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical/forensic psychology completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. Eligibility for entry onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists
Experience Essential Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including forensic contexts with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
Desirable Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' clients. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge Essential Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity. Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated or technical extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient or that is extremely contentious or challenging. Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific 'difficult to treat' groups (e.g. personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
Personal Essential Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health problems and associated disabilities Is a 'team player' and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
Other Essential Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively. Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice
Employer details Employer name Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Address HMP Foston Hall Derby DE65 5DN Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
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