Clinical Lead

Transformationunitgm; Swinfen; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust located in the UK is looking for two Clinical Leads for its residential treatment services within HMP Swinfen Hall. The ideal candidates will have experience as Psychologists or Psychotherapists, focusing on delivering psychological interventions to young adults with trauma histories. The role involves clinical supervision, developing person-centered interventions, and leading a multidisciplinary team. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional development are included.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Flexible working options

Supportive multi-disciplinary team

Qualifications

• Experience of working with young adults in prison environments.
• Experience delivering psychological therapies such as CFT, EMDR, DBT, MBT.
• Experience supervising clinical and operational staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical supervision and reflective practice for the team.
• Deliver person-centered interventions to young adults in prison.
• Evaluate and develop service delivery.

Skills

Psychological consultancy experience

Work with trauma

Supervisory skills

Education

Registration as Psychologist or Psychotherapist

Experience as a Senior Psychologist/Psychotherapist (8a)

Tools

Trauma-informed care techniques

Job description

Employer Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site HMP Swinfen Hall Town Lichfield Salary £64,455 - £74,896 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/12/2025 08:00

Clinical Lead

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Job overview

The Inspires service is part of the national Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway and comprises of 4 services within HMP Swinfen Hall: a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE), a residential treatment (Delta Enabling Environment), a non‑residential treatment service (NRTS) and an Enhanced Support Service (ESS) working with service users housed across the prison. Our service users, who are aged between 18 and 28, have histories of trauma and complex presentations.

We are looking for 2 Clinical Leads for our residential treatment Service (DEE) and our PIPE services. Our treatment service provides long‑term psychological interventions for 30 service users who reside on a dedicated prison wing. Our PIPE service provides a psychologically informed environment to support prisoners who are either accessing psychological intervention or have recently completed psychological interventions. This is an exciting opportunity for two experienced Psychologists or Psychotherapists to lead a successful, and innovative service working with young adults in prison. The successful candidate will join a large, multi‑disciplinary team providing outstanding opportunities for professional development. You will also benefit from being part of NHFT’s Specialist and Secured Services Psychology network.

Main duties of the job

Your role will involve:

• Clinical responsibility for all aspects of the service
• Delivering person‑centred interventions to young adults in prison
• Providing clinical supervision and reflective practice for the team
• Consultation and advice for prison staff
• Service evaluation and development

The services utilise a relational approach and a flexible, person‑centred model to meet the needs of individual service users. The team is multi‑disciplinary, comprising of psychology, psychotherapy, occupational therapy and creative therapy.

You will be expected to provide clinical supervision to the team. This will include contributing to the reflective practice, training and critical thinking of the team and in meetings for service improvement.

You will also need to be able to provide core psychological and therapeutic interventions in line with trauma informed care. In doing so, you will be responsible for adhering to relevant service Operational Procedures and Trust policies along with professional ethics and standards.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

Person specification

Application form

• Registration as Psychologist or Psychotherapist
• Experience of working in prisons
• Experience of supervising a range of staff, clinical and operational (prison staff)
• Experience as a Senior Psychologist/ Psychotherapist (8a)
• Experience in working with young adults
• Experience and trained to deliver two specialist psychological therapies e.g. CFT, EMDR, DBT, MBT

Application

• Experience providing psychological consultancy within organisations
• Expertise working with trauma
• Expertise in working with challenging behaviour

You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility.

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part‑time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re‑check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly, the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.

Please note that all new starters to the trust are subject to a probationary period.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.