87569 - Senior Counselling Psychologists Youth Custody Service

87569 - Senior Counselling Psychologists Youth Custody Service

Number of jobs available: 3

Detail of reserve list: 12 Months

Region: West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber

City/Town: Stoke-on-Trent, Wetherby

Building/Site: HMYOI WERRINGTON STOKE ON TRENT, ST9 0DX, HMYOI WETHERBY WETHERBY, LS22 5ED

Grade: SEO

Band: 8

Post Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full Time

Role Type: Psychology

To build upon the existing Youth Custody Service (YCS) Counselling Psychology Service, HMPPS Psychology Services are currently recruiting Band 8 Senior Counselling Psychologists for public sector Under 18 Youth Custody Sites: HMYOIs; Werrington and Wetherby and potentially other sites across YCS depending on post and funding availability. Successful applicants will hold a caseload of children in custody and will be responsible for establishing agreements with Universities and appointing, coordinating, managing, and supervising Trainee Counselling Psychologist placements at their respective site and potentially others.

Applicants must have HCPC Registration as a Counselling Psychologist and be Chartered with the BPS with eligibility as a supervisor. Experience of working with adolescents involved in offending is desirable. Once in post, successful applicants will develop a professional service and network across YCS but also be integrated into the wider HMPPS Psychology Service.

Overview of the job

This is a non-operational prisoner facing job.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

• Reviews cases and reconsiders the professional advice given by other psychologists on the potential release of serious prisoners.
• Conducts full case reviews on difficult cases and offers authoritative advice on next steps relating to sentence plan.
• Specialises in delivery of psychology services in settings such as therapeutic community wings.
• Lead and supervise and facilitate group sessions.
• Offers professional opinion to multi-functional teams conducting offender reports e.g. risk reports, parole reports on high risk or vulnerable prisoners.
• Develops and/or strategies such as sex offender or indeterminate sentence prisoner assessment and intervention strategy.
• Delivers and supervises (treatment management) the delivery of more complex programmes e.g. healthy sexual functioning.
• Provides consultancy support to colleagues such as an establishment Senior Management Team (SMT) in relation to psychology services and outcomes.
• Conducts relevant research including data gathering and analysis.
• Act as a "professional witness" in parole board hearings, multi-agency meetings, and other formal settings where psychology input is required.
• Responsible for managing and providing professional supervision to trainee forensic psychology staff.
• Provides supervision, training, mentoring and support to trainee psychologists and where relevant other staff such as interventions staff.
• Ensures staff are developed in accordance with key competencies and gateways and ensuring consistency across the team in the application of policies and procedures affecting staff and offenders.
• Leads on risk assessment and resulting risk management of complex, vulnerable or high risk prisoners.
• Contributes to other offender management processes (usually with more complex cases in work such as Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) assessments and self-harm or personality disorder assessments).
• Provides consultancy role to wider team on their specialist activity.
• Manage own Continued Professional Development (CPD) requirements and maintains professional standards.
• Provide a psychological contribution to the work of areas of the regime such as a therapeutic community.
• Provide psychological reports when requested for life sentence prisoners and to submit within the appropriate time framework.
• Responsible for relevant accreditation audit baselines as detailed in the audit document.

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.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

Mandatory Eligibility Requirements

Qualifications
BPS/HCPC Counselling Psychologist

Licences
Registration as Counselling Psychologist with HCPC

Professional memberships
Chartered with BPS

Languages
spoken and written English

Benefits

• Annual Leave
• Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays
• Pension
• Work Life Balance
• Training

Please note the successful applicant will need to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Security Check for this post.