Specialist Treatment Manager - Psychology Services Group - HMP Highpoint (Ref: 13868)

Job summary

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Job description

Psychology Services Group are expanding to develop a specialist treatment management service to support the delivery of the accredited programme Building Choices, alongside other rehabilitative activity in prisons. This is an exciting development for you to join a growing team delivering a service to help reduce reoffending and protect the public, embedded in a clinical service. You will be managed through the psychology line, and supported in your professional development.

The Specialist Treatment Manager will have responsibility for the quality oversight, facilitation and delivery of Accredited Programmes and related interventions in custody which address offending behaviour. This will include moderate and high intensity, offered in group or individual formats, as well as provision for those presenting with learning difficulties and challenges. It may also include oversight of wider related offending behaviour interventions

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• To co-ordinate, monitor and review the planning and preparation for delivering programmes including management of referrals and waiting lists for offending behaviour programmes, communicating with applicants and those involved in their sentence management.
• Responsible for ensuring facilitators are properly selected and trained then providing professional supervision including session monitoring to support the development of skills and maintain the integrity of service delivery. This includes the continuous assessment and support of Groupworkers and other facilitator staff in the development of the skills required to deliver programmes to monitor and identify individual performance and development needs through Treatment Management processes, working with the Programme Manager regarding performance.
• To provide advice, information, training and consultancy as required to staff, prisoners and external organisations to ensure that eligibility and suitability criteria are understood and to support multi-disciplinary approach to reducing reoffending.
• Assist in facilitating accredited programmes or one to one work as required.
• Responsible for overseeing, allocating and reviewing assessments for the relevant programme, to support effective clinical decision making and maintaining an ongoing review of participants’ risks, needs and responsivity, ensuring their needs are met throughout their completion of offending behaviour programmes.
• Responsible for the selection and composition of groups, considering risks and responsivity needs and ensuring national guidelines on the assessment and selection of offenders are followed to ensure that only those offenders who require the programme are selected.
• Work collaboratively with the Forensic Psychology Service, the Programmes Manager, local SLT, other multi-disciplinary teams and national OBP team.
• Chair Post Programme reviews in partnership with the Programme Manager
• Respond to any local queries or complaints about the delivery of the programme and maintain records in line with management manual(s) guidance and local protocols
• Contribute to the function and activities of the Accredited Intervention Management (AIMs) team and attend regular meetings (minimum of 10 per year).
• Contribute to local programme Awareness Training.
• Take responsibility for their own Continued Professional Development (CPD).

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

Preparation for the technical element will be sent to interviewees in advance of interview.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Licences

Are you trained in the delivery of an accredited Interventions Services programme? Please upload a Word Document listing the accredited Interventions Services programmes you are trained in.

Memberships

Have you delivered every element of an accredited Intervention Services programme at least twice to an excellent standard? Please upload a Word Document listing which accredited Interventions Services programmes you have delivered; please indicate how many courses of each programme you have delivered.

Languages

Written and spoken English

Behaviours

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

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

• Evidenced ability to maintain and uphold accredited programme standards, in line with the evidence for effective interventions.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,803, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £11,530 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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Selection process details

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• 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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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

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

Recruitment team

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