Senior Registered Psychologist – Psychology Services –PIPE – HMP Hindley (Ref: 13667)

Job summary

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Job description

Preparation PIPE Clinical Lead, Senior Registered Forensic or Clinical Psychologist (Band 8) at HMP Hindley

Do you have a passion for reducing reoffending and relational working? Do you enjoy supporting other professionals to deliver positive and boundaried relationships with prisoners to facilitate rehabilitation? Are you passionate about collaborative formulation and supporting prisoners to progress when they have struggled with this? Then we have just the job - NorthWest Psychology Services (NWPS) are seeking a Clinical Lead for a 10-bed main location Preparation PIPE (Psychologically Informed Planned Environment) at HMP Hindley, which is a Category C prison located in Wigan, which is between Manchester and Liverpool.

This role offers a unique opportunity to provide clinical leadership in the only Category C Preparation PIPE in the country. This post is a permanent full-time Senior Psychologist role within the NWPS team with, 0.8 (WTE) based on the PIPE and 0.2 (WTE) in the wider NWPS team. NWPS have a total of 3 PIPEs in our portfolio, and the Clinical Lead at HMP Hindley PIPE will be part of a team involved in clinical PIPE provision.

The post holder will be expected to engage in all necessary duties, including but not limited to mandatory training and reporting requirements, as well as completing duties as required by the PIPE role, including regular attendance at in-person national meetings at various locations and regular in-person group clinical supervision, therefore flexibility to travel is a requirement of this post. The post holder will be based on site on the PIPE at HMP Hindley for most of the working week with limited opportunity for flexible/ hybrid working due to the relational nature of the role. Placement as PIPE Clinical Lead would be collaboratively reviewed with the post holder after a period of not more than 3 years to ensure development needs of both the PIPE environment and the post holder are being met.

To be eligible, the post holder should have two years post registration experience at the point of taking up post. However, applications will be welcomed from psychologists who have a minimum of 18 months post registration experience; although they will not be able to formally take up the post until they have been registered for two years and subject to the necessary pre-employment checks.

The post holder will be working with complex individuals and staff, applying their experience and competence in psychology to reduce the risk of harm and re-offending by providing collaborative formulation, psycho-education, consultancy, supervision and training for staff, undertaking complex risk assessments, conducting research and interventions, both as part of the PIPE Clinical Lead and generic NWPS roles.

This is a non-operational job with line management responsibilities.

PIPE Context:

Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs) are part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway, which is jointly commissioned by the NHS and HMPPS. PIPEs are specifically designed, contained environments where staff members have additional training to develop an increased psychological understanding of their work. This understanding enables them to create an enhanced safe and supportive environment, which can facilitate the development of those who live and work there. They are designed to have a particular focus on the environment in which they operate; actively recognising the importance and quality of relationships and interactions. They aim to maximise ordinary situations and to approach these in a psychologically informed way, paying attention to interpersonal difficulties, for example those issues that might be linked to personality disorder. PIPEs are not treatment interventions - the PIPEs model has been developed as an environmental approach to enhance the delivery of core work within Prison and Probation (community) settings, where additional psychological or ‘psychosocial’ considerations are required.

Principal Clinical Lead Duties:

The post holder will hold a strategic position as Clinical Lead for the PIPE service. They will have a key role in creating and maintaining a healthy psychosocial environment; ensuring that the unit adheres to the theoretical principles of the PIPE model. This will include design, delivery and oversight of the core components of the PIPE model, including group work and the management of group dynamics, delivery of group and individual supervision. It also requires the post holder to work closely with the Operational Lead. The post holder will manage the development of a positive and enabling milieu, ensuring that the delivery of psychosocial aspects of the PIPE service is compliant with policy and delivery arrangements. This will include ensuring the PIPE service works towards and meeting and maintaining the standards set out for the Enabling Environment accreditation.

Responsibilities as Clinical Lead:

The post holder will be managing a wide range of complex dynamics within the environment and host organisation. This will require the post holder to take on a leadership role within the organisation, working effectively alongside operational and strategic leads for the service. The post holder will contribute to staff development by offering training, supporting and providing clinical supervision. They will also participate in individual and group (peer) supervision, provided in a central location by a group analytic consultant each month. The PIPE clinical lead will ensure that the application of the PIPE service supports and adheres to its agreed pathway function.

Attendance at monthly Clinical Lead business meetings (London), monthly individual and group supervision sessions provided externally (Leeds) and quarterly contract review meetings with commissioners is integral to the role. You will also be required to provide a quarterly report for commissioners alongside the PIPE unit Custodial Manager.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties as part of NWPS:

Please see the generic Band 8 Senior Psychologist job description and advert.

Person specification

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Licences

• HCPC registered Forensic Psychologist
• Possess a professional background in Psychology

o Experience in providing clinical supervision
o Completed relevant training in effective models of treatment and best practise
o They are likely to also be a Chartered Psychologist and Full member of the appropriate division of the BPS if the post requires it

• The post holder should have two years post registration experience at the point of taking up post.

Memberships

• HCPC registered Forensic Psychologist
• Possess a professional background in Psychology

o Experience in providing clinical supervision
o Completed relevant training in effective models of treatment and best practise
o They are likely to also be a Chartered Psychologist and Full member of the appropriate division of the BPS if the post requires it

• The post holder should have two years post registration experience at the point of taking up post.

Languages

Written and Spoken English

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £55,457, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £16,065 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

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• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
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• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
• Telephone : 0345 241 5358

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