Highly Specialist Clinical Practitioner - HMYOI Feltham A
| Posting date: | 30 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £53,751.00 to £60,651.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53751.00 - £60651.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 February 2026 |
| Location: | Feltham, TW13 4ND |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-26-0134 |
Summary
Please see job description and specification attached for full details. Clinical: To provide specialist psychological assessments to young people within HMYOI Feltham, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved in the young persons care. To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a young persons mental health and personality difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within the YOI, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans. To integrate, within the psychological formulation, specialist knowledge of complex mental health disorders, models of sexual behaviour and offending. To attend review meetings, safer custody meetings and other prison meetings as appropriate, and to offer psychological opinion about management and appropriate referrals in that context. To liaise closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team, giving authoritative specialist advice on psychological aspects of care, contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment planning. To contribute to the development of a reflective culture within the healthcare team at Feltham, by supporting and participating in relevant activities such as training, Staff Support and Reflective Practice groups. To work with external agencies, such as local authorities, the Police, MAPPA and Youth Offending Teams, to share information appropriately and to contribute to planning and resettlement of young people making the transition from custody to the community, or to the adult estate. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice and training to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To undertake time-limited family therapy work with a select group of children and young people as required.