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Bank Trainee Forensic Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	08 August 2024
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£37,338 - £44,962 pro rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 September 2024
Location:	Speke, L24 8RN
Company:	Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6516888/350-SCBank6516888

Summary

Resettle (IIRMS) is an innovative community service, providing an alternative approach to enhancing the lives of service users who have complex needs due to their mental health difficulties and offending histories. We are a true partnership model between Merseycare NHS, the Probation Service and Merseyside Police and are part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway. The model is psychologically informed; providing holistic and systemic intervention and adopting therapeutic community and sociotherapy principles. The service users have struggled to function within society, spending a large proportion of their adulthood in prison. The intervention offers a structured timetable for up to 20 men, 4 days per week over a period of 2 years and is an accredited Enabling Environment, recognised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

The post holder will assist the service lead in conducting offending related therapies and assessments in the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist intervention service for service users, across the
service.

*This is a BANK post*

Shortlisting planned for 13 August 2024

Interviews planned for 19 August 2024


The post holder will deliver psychological intervention to service users, as required and directed by the nominated lead. Needs identified through the process of assessment and formulation and in response to
the views of the intervention team.
To provide specialised advice on the management and intervention of offence related needs, and as part of, a multidisciplinary team. To work under the guidance of the nominated lead and within professional
guidelines.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

To assist the nominated intervention lead with the development, delivery and maintenance of evidence based offending intervention initiatives for a high risk and complex group of individuals, with such initiatives to include individual and group therapy and to account for the development
and refinement of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To provide complex, sensitive and contentious information to service users presenting with a range of offence related risks, medium to high risk for aggression, attending to the principles of motivational interviewing and feedback, and managing personal exposure to highly distressing or
emotional circumstances /material.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for clients referred to the team for offence related difficulties, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests,
self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semistructured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of a service user’s offending difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their
complex problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To deliver psychological intervention to service users, as required and directed by the violence treatment lead. Such intervention to relate to needs identified through the process of assessment and formulation as part of secure forensic services. These are likely to include needs identified
prior to commencement of a violence intervention (e.g., provision of motivational interviewing intervention) and/or those identified at the conclusion of an offending therapy programme by the
treatment facilitator team.
To evaluate and make decisions with regards to the individual intervention and management needs of service users presenting with complex needs that accounts for the complexities and dynamic nature of their presentation, and after liaison with the nominated intervention lead.
These judgements to account for both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have acted as influential setting
conditions for their presentation.

Provision of specialised consultation (including advice and guidance) to multi-disciplinary teams
and other professionals with regards to the effective psychological management, intervention and enhanced understanding of service user’s offending needs, that includes provision of hypotheses and formulations that account for psychological models of understanding.
8. To ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team have access to a psychologically based
framework for the understanding and care of service users, including (but not restricted to) those presenting with violent offending difficulties, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory under guidance of the nominated
psychology lead.
To communicate psychological assessments and formulations via a written psychological report, as and when directed by the nominated psychology lead.


This advert closes on Monday 12 Aug 2024