Occupational Therapist5

TN United Kingdom; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Leeds, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

6a4064ff8cec

Job Views:

7

Posted:

02.04.2025

Expiry Date:

17.05.2025

Job Description:

Join us for a unique opportunity to work as a Forensic Psychologist in Training across the Yorkshire and Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership (YHPDP). The service has a focus on enabling progressive and trauma-informed ways of engaging people, to help improve the experience and outcomes for individuals who experience the world as profoundly unsafe, which is often associated with the diagnostic label of a ‘personality disorder’. This is a training role. To ensure our successful applicant gains a place on a training programme we are interviewing jointly with Cardiff Metropolitan University. If you decide to apply for this role, please also apply for the PgD programme at the same time noting on the university application that you are applying for this trainee Forensic Psychologist role. Your interview for the course programme will be completed at the same time as interview for this post.

Main duties of the job

To provide a highly specialist psychological service across the Yorkshire and Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership (YHPDP):

1. YHPDP offers a suite of services under the national OPD strategy, jointly commissioned by HMPPS and the NHS. Service users will be under Probation and at high risk of seriously harmful reoffending, likely to be linked to severe personality-based difficulties. The trainee will work across the CORE Offender Management service, Discovery Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS) and Psychologically informed Planned Environment Approved premises (PIPE APs) to enhance the assessment, supervision and risk management of high-risk offenders, including joint casework, and to support the implementation of the OPD Pathway.
2. The post holder will be required to work independently on a day-to-day basis under supervision and subject to review at regular intervals, in accordance with the training route, Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines; clinical supervision will usually be offered by a qualified Forensic psychologist (although other qualified healthcare professionals may also contribute).
3. This is a full-time post. The post holder will be expected to undertake the tasks required to demonstrate competencies for training, within the required timeframes, according to the route.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This course is approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and, upon completion, provides students with eligibility to apply to the HCPC register to practice as Forensic Psychologists in the UK. This role is a 3-year fixed term appointment. Progression to a Full time, permanent band 7 role as a Forensic Psychologist is contingent on successful completion of the training and HCPC registration as a Forensic Psychologist.

Ideally, you will have experience of working within the criminal justice system or secure mental health care.

Duties and Responsibilities

In order to commence the PgD Forensic Practitioner Programme stage 2 training in Forensic Psychology as advertised in this role, candidates will hold a BPS accredited undergraduate degree in Psychology, a BPS accredited Masters degree in Forensic Psychology and have at least 1 years’ experience in applied forensic psychology. You will have an understanding of interpersonal and personality/related difficulties and/or mental health difficulties and how these relate to offending behaviour.

The postholder will be required to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information relating to service users and their carers whilst working in a highly emotive atmosphere. The post holder will have demonstrable organisational and workload management skills and complete work around the core competencies of the qualification. This will include:

1. Supporting the psychologically informed case management of the service users, using psychological knowledge and skills through your relationship with the service users and the staff so to influence the systems around them.
2. Completion of Psychological formulation and assessment.
3. Delivering individual and group-based interventions.
4. Providing consultation and psychologically informed advice to HMPPS colleagues, including attending IPP panels and multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) where appropriate.
5. As a scientist-practitioner, contribute to service development projects, including training, policy development and research. Projects may be presented to conferences or published.
6. Completing all requirements of the PgD programme.

Although the YHPDP office base is in Leeds, the organisation has moved towards increased agile working, so the post holder may work remotely for some of the time each week. The post requires regular travel across the region.

Person specification

Qualifications and registration

Essential criteria: BPS accredited undergraduate psychology degree, which confers eligibility for graduate basis for chartership with BPS AND BPS accredited MSc degree in Forensic Psychology required for registration to Stage 2 of the Forensic Psychology training qualification.

Training

Essential criteria: Minimum of 12 months experience working in a forensic and/or clinical forensic service undertaking direct work with forensic populations. Essential to gain a place on a training course.