Job Description
Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner & works in partnership to provide responsive & dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability & substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiasticPsychological Therapistto join our forward thinking, friendly & expandingHealth & JusticeTeamatHMP Downview.This is a new post developed to expand the therapy provision & joins an established MDT, which includes nursing, psychiatry, assistant psychologists, clinical psychologists & art therapy. By joining our Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients, but who also have the opportunity to have a real impact on promoting health & well-being.
Our motto is“Caring NOT Judging”so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system & other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable & high-quality primary care & mental health services to those who may have offended & those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status & to encourage social inclusion.
PLEASE NOTE ANY CANDIDATE WISHING TO APPLY FOR ANY OF OUR ROLES IN SURREY WILL BE SUBJECT TO VETTING CLEARANCE. WHICH REQUIRES YOU TO HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT IN THE UK FOR A MINIMUM OF 3 YEARS. CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT MEET THIS CRITERIA NEED NOT APPLY.
We are keen to recruit a confident & compassionate Psychological Therapist with tier 3-4 stepped care therapy expertise to join our team. You will be a clinician with experience of working with complex needs & a real passion for providing support to some of the most vulnerable in society. We want to see someone who will work well with a range of professions, both within the established MDT & also with the wider prison staff, respecting & integrating a range of opinions and approaches to provide the best outcome . A clinical interest in trauma informed approaches & working with personality disorders would be advantageous.
CNWL Health & Justice Services provide healthcare in numerous secure & community settings & employ a range of psychologists & psychological therapists with clinical, counselling & forensic trainings. We provide mental health services in multiple sites, across prisons & secure hospitals, with children & adults, men & women and across the range of security categories. Psychologists also lead four specialist Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) services & the Sexual Behaviour Service in the youth estate. Joining a large, forward-thinking Trust will bring successful candidates excellent development opportunities, an exciting career structure, and job satisfaction. Psychologists from across Health & Justice come together for professional & clinical development and supervision and continuing professional development & post graduate training is actively encouraged.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:
- Monthly supervision
- Annual personal development plans/appraisals
- Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.
Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:
- Preceptorship Programme
- Support and guidance with Revalidation
- Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:
- Childcare vouchers
- Health and wellbeing services
- Season ticket loans
- Cycle to work scheme
- Relocation package
The trust also values its staff and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.
All of our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
**Please see main Job Description for more details**
- To provide a comprehensive, specialist psychological therapy service to patients at HMP Downview.
- To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy as part of a stepped care model.
- To provide training, advice and consultation to other staff about the psychological needs of the patients.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Health and Justice Services Directorate.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures.
- To support the team and Service Line.