Senior Psychological Therapist - HMYOI Feltham

This post offers a very exciting opportunity to contribute to a high-quality Wellbeing service within HMYOI Feltham. We deliver high quality mental health and therapy services to individuals from a range of cultural and social backgrounds who are serving custodial sentences. We work alongside prison staff and third sector agencies to provide holistic and trauma sensitive care.
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, dedicated and motivated therapist to join us and work within our developing services. There will be a strong focus on trauma-informed psychological approaches (under the REFRESHED framework) and there will be opportunity for direct clinical work as well as working with system. Delivering training and supervision will be part of this role., This post offers a very exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of REFRESHED, a trauma-informed framework, on Feltham B.
Support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation & training.
Participate in systemic clinical governance.
Offer clinical supervision to assistant, trainee & more junior psychologists &
other staff.
Utilise research skills for audit service development & research within the area served by the team/service.
Provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service to individuals, carers, families & groups, within & across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice & trust care pathways.
Clinically & professionally supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists & junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors & other staff as appropriate.
Provide consultation, mentorship, supervision & advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service & other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/settings as appropriate.
Contribute to the development, evaluation & monitoring of the team's operational policies & services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation & audit, & to advise both service & professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological &/or organisational matters need addressing.

Working for our organisation
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner. Our Health & Justice motto is "Caring NOT Judging" so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care mental health, intellectual disability, offender personality disorder and substance misuse services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the diverse communities we serve.
Our psychological professions have a strong sense of leadership and a distinct professional identity. There is an emphasis on Continuing Professional Development and developing your skills in line with your career progression goals. As a Trust, we are committed to staff development. We especially welcome applications from candidates with the valuable experience of the diverse social and cultural communities the Trust serves as we are seeking to ensure our psychology staffing has greater diversity and better represents local communities. The successful candidate will be supported to develop their career and flourish as a valued member of the psychology staff group. There are also a number of support systems within the Trust including staff peer networks.
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., · The Senior Psychological Therapist role provides a comprehensive, highly specialist, trauma-informed therapeutic service to young adults and prison staff at HMYOI Feltham, including psychological assessment and therapy as well as advice and consultation on young adults' psychological care to other members of the core team on given landings or units.
· The post involves contributing to the 'REFRESHED framework through implementation until it becomes 'normal practice' in the prison, coordinating and support the team in the process of trauma-informed multi-disciplinary collaborative formulation, and providing clinical supervision, reflective practice, training and support to custodial colleagues and to members of the Healthcare team in their day-to-day management of young adults in the prison.
+ The Senior Psychological Therapist role provides a comprehensive, highly specialist, trauma-informed therapeutic service to young adults and prison staff at HMYOI Feltham, including psychological assessment and therapy as well as advice and consultation on young adults' psychological care to other members of the core team on given landings or units.
+ The post involves contributing to the 'REFRESHED framework through implementation until it becomes 'normal practice' in the prison, coordinating and support the team in the process of trauma-informed multi-disciplinary collaborative formulation, and providing clinical supervision, reflective practice, training and support to custodial colleagues and to members of the Healthcare team in their day-to-day management of young adults in the prison.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.