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), 12 month FTC (with potential to be extended), offering a salary between £38,430 per annum 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 who present with a risk of violent reoffending in prison and/or on release.
• Analyse complex, sensitive and potentially disturbing information from prison databases; programme participants, to undertake dynamic risk/needs assessments regarding the delivery of behavioural change interventions.
• Build working relationships and communicate effectively with members of the team, and prison and probation teams.
• Maintain detailed, high-quality records of interventions in accordance with company guidelines.
• Target interventions towards enabling men to improve their wellbeing and tackle issues related to violent behaviour; relationship problems/gang affiliation, substance misuse, adverse childhood experiences and racial trauma.
• 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 sessions.
• Model and encourage the use of non–verbal, creative methods, using visual arts, music, movement and writing as part of the interventions.
• Identify and share risk and safeguarding information appropriately with professionals.
• Write progress reports at the end of participant’s engagement, for reference during; e.g participants parole hearings and sentence planning processes.
• Work with Service Managers to collect and write up programme monitoring information/participant feedback and the Senior Leadership Team.
• Actively participate in relevant internal and external meetings; team meetings/line management meetings/clinical supervision meetings, programme reviews with participants, safer custody and reducing reoffending meetings.
• Exert physical effort in moving equipment and furniture, e.g. when setting up a room for group or one to one work.
• Assist in the development of resources and materials, promoting the interventions.

Person Specification

• Ability to form professional relationships with men serving prison sentences who present with risks of violent reoffending. Who face disadvantages such as substance misuse, trauma histories, mental health, poor literacy and numeracy or gang affiliation. 
• Strong organisational and multitasking skills.
• Ability to work autonomously, maintaining the capacity to think clearly and focus on supporting participants in stressful situations.
• Ability to maintain appropriate boundaries with participants, managing personal safety whilst working in prisons. 
• Ability to work with participants psychological, non-verbal and symbolic expression, be competent in interpreting these as meaningful communications where appropriate. Including the ability to translate this knowledge so that it can be used by other professionals.
• Ability to attune to and process transference/countertransference feelings, working with emotional projections.
• Basic artistic skills in using a variety of art materials and media in a variety of styles.

Essential Qualifications and Experience 
 

• Good honours degree (2.2 or above) in psychology or equivalent.
• Training at Master’s Level in Psychotherapy and State Registration as a Psychotherapist.
• At least one years’ post qualifying experience of delivering psychotherapy in prisons or a related area.
• Experience of using trauma informed, strengths based, psycho-educational and creative methods when facilitating interventions.
• Experience of using Microsoft Office packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint. 
• Experience of liaising confidently and professionally with a range of stakeholders at different levels of seniority and from diverse backgrounds. 
• Experience of working effectively within a team, with a busy and varied workload. 
• 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 whilst working in prisons.
• A strong understanding of the principles of confidentiality and of instances when this should be breached. Knowledge and experience of the charity sector.
• Knowledge and experience of using design and publicity software such as Canva, MailChimp.
• Creative skills in assisting with the design of publicity materials and planning content for newsletters and social media posts.
• Ability to use prison databases e.g. PNOMIS to view and create individual case notes and reports.
• Ability to provide support and training for colleagues and other professionals.

If you would like to be considered for this position and have the relevant experience, then please respond TODAY!

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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