Senior Clin, Couns or Forensic Psychologist OR Senior Psychotherapist

Job summary
Join us for a unique opportunity to develop your clinical and leadership skills across the Yorkshire and Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership (YHPDP). The service has a focus on enabling progressive and trauma-informed ways of engaging people in difficult situations, to help improve the experience and outcomes for individuals who experience the world as profoundly unsafe (often associated with the diagnostic label of a 'personality disorder') and the staff working with them. Ideally, you will have experience of working within the criminal justice system or secure mental health care.

The YHPDP team includes psychologists, psychotherapists, occupational therapists, housing workers and probation staff. They are a regional service and part of Leeds 'Personality Disorder' services. The team work collaboratively with probation staff to develop risk management plans and support service users to seek the most appropriate treatment for their needs. The aim is to enable thoughtful, compassionate and therapeutic risk management delivered in partnership with colleagues from the Probation Service, with the ultimate aim of reducing reoffending, increasing psychological well-being and developing a workforce with the additional competencies for working effectively with this group. The team draw on an eclectic range of psychological theory to best enable non-psychological practitioners to understand behaviour which may often challenge working alliances.

Main duties of the job
To provide a highly specialist psychological service across the consultation and formulation (Core OM) strand of the Yorkshire and Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership. The YHPDP Core OM service provides a consultation and formulation service across the Yorkshire and Humberside region to support the implementation of the Offender Personality Disorder strategy. The function of the role is:

• To work across the team in a manner that is formulation-based, trauma-informed, and builds the capacity of the wider team to work in a psychologically- and trauma-informed way.
• To provide line-management and/or clinical supervision to members in the multidisciplinary team, including Probation Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists or Trainees.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
• This post is a specific role within the team to provide the Core OM consultation service within the Offender Management in Custody model; providing consultation, formulation and workforce development opportunities to Prison Offender Managers and other staff in relation to their OPD caseload specifically within HMP Millsike and HMP Doncaster.

The YHPDP office is in Leeds there is an expectation that there will be some hybrid working, so the post holder may work remotely for some of the time each week. The post requires regular travel across the region, including to HMP Millsike and HMP Doncaster.

About us
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.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job responsibilities
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team View email address on meeveem.com

Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

Qualifications
Essential

• Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) or at least Masters level in Forensic psychology by course accredited by the BPS and HCPC registration; Or Masters or above in a psychotherapy and accredited as a psychotherapist with UKCP or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council)
• Additional significant post qualification training relevant to the service and job role outlined in the job summary.
• Formal training in supervision of others.

Skills
Essential

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle

Experience
Essential

• Significant post qualification experience in an area of practice relevant to the service specified in the job summary, to include assessment of risk.

Values
Desirable

• Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
• Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
• Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).