Job Description

Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting on behalf of our client for a Violence Reduction Psychotherapist, based in HMPYOI Feltham with travel to London once a month.

We are looking for an organised, resilient psychotherapist to join our committed, specialist team.

The successful applicant will have over a years’ post qualifying experience of facilitating psychotherapy in prisons or a related area. Delivering group and one-to-one structured behavioural change interventions to men aged 18 to 30 years old, serving sentences at HMPYOI Feltham.

We particularly welcome applications from people from Global Majority ethnicities, with lived experience of the criminal justice system, and/or with current enhanced prison security vetting for at least one or two prisons.

The candidate will engage participants in interventions using verbal and non-verbal, creative techniques such as movement, visual arts, creative writing and drama. Using trauma informed, psycho-educational, strengths-based approaches, they will be responsive to risk and safeguarding issues. As part of our multidisciplinary team, they will engage proactively in regular reflective practice, clinical supervision and line management sessions.

This is a part-time 28 hours / week (worked over 4-5 days), 12month FTC (with potential to be extended), offering a salary between £38,430 per annuum based on experience. Travel will be required.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

* Facilitate semi-structured group-based and one-to-one behavioural change interventions over 14 weeks, to men serving sentences at HMPYOI Feltham who present with a risk of violent re-offending

* Analyse complex, sensitive and potentially disturbing information from prison databases; risk and needs assessments regarding the delivery of behavioural change interventions, on a case-by-case basis.

* Build excellent working relationships and communicate effectively with other members of the team, and prison and probation teams.

* Maintain detailed, high-quality records of interventions in accordance with company guidelines

* Target interventions enabling prisoners to improve well-being and tackle violence related behaviour;

* Apply the company’s thematic structure to interventions, using psycho-educational, trauma informed and strengths-based approaches to encourage participants to explore the themes in each session.

* Model and encourage the use of non – verbal, creative methods e.g. visual arts, music and writing

* Identify and share risk and safeguarding information appropriately.

* Write progress reports for each participant's engagement with interventions, for reference; participants parole hearings and sentence planning processes.

* Work with the Service Manager to collect and write up programme monitoring

* Actively participate in relevant internal and external meetings e.g. team meetings, line management meetings, clinical supervision meetings, programme reviews with participants, safer custody, reducing re-offending meetings.

* Exert physical effort in moving equipment and furniture, e.g. when setting up a room for sessions.

Person Specification

* Ability to form professional relationships with men who are serving prison sentences, who present with risks of violent re-offending and face disadvantages such as substance misuse problems, trauma histories, mental health diagnoses, poor literacy and numeracy, gang affiliation. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

* Strong organisational, multi-tasking and team working skills and Microsoft knowledge.

* Ability to work autonomously and maintain the capacity to think clearly and focus on supporting participants in stressful situations.

* Ability to work with participants psychological, non-verbal and symbolic expression and be competent in interpreting these as meaningful communications where appropriate. This includes the ability to translate this knowledge so that it can be used by other professionals in the formulation of risk and needs assessments.

Essential Qualifications and Experience

* Master’s Level in Psychotherapy and State Registration as a Psychotherapist.

* At least one year's post qualifying experience of delivering psychotherapy in prisons or a related area.

* Experience of using trauma informed, strengths based, psycho-educational and creative methods.

* Experience of using Microsoft Office packages; Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

* Experience of liaising confidently and professionally with a range of stakeholders at different levels of seniority and diverse backgrounds.

* Understanding of the specific issues faced by people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Backgrounds in contact with the criminal justice system.

* Strong awareness of appropriate boundaries to be maintained and of personal safety considerations working in prisons.

* Ability to use prison databases; PNOMIS to view and create individual case notes and reports.

If you would like to be considered for this position and have the relevant experience, then please email your CV to (email address removed)

Alternatively, if this role is not for you but you do know somebody who would be interested please refer them. We have a referral bonus scheme and will pay £75, in retail vouchers of your choice, for referrals who are not already known to us.

Due to the high volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within 7 working days, I am afraid your application has been unsuccessful.

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