Band 4 ISFL Assistant Psychologist - HMP Eastwood Park

We are seeking a compassionate, motivated psychology assistant to join the Wellbeing Mental Health and Psychosocial Substance Misuse Team atHMP Eastwood Park.

This rewarding role is centred on delivering psychologically informed interventions to women residing on the prison's Incentivised Substance-Free Living (ISFL) Wing. The successful applicant will provide a range of individual and group-based interventions that promote recovery, wellbeing, resilience, and personal growth. You will work closely alongside prison colleagues, including prison officers, healthcare professionals, and substance misuse practitioners, to support individuals in achieving positive and sustainable change.

The Incentivised Substance-Free Living (ISFL) Wing aims to create a safe, supportive, and recovery-oriented environment for individuals seeking to address or maintain abstinence from substance dependence. The unit is founded on principles of safety, rehabilitation, empowerment, and hope, providing residents with the opportunity to focus on their physical, emotional, and psychological wellbeing whilst engaging in meaningful and purposeful activities., As a Psychology Assistant, you will:

Deliver psychologically informed one-to-one and group interventions to support recovery and wellbeing

Support the delivery of trauma-informed and, where appropriate, trauma-focused interventions under the supervision of qualified clinicians

Develop therapeutic relationships that empower individuals to identify goals, build strengths, and maximise their potential

Encourage engagement with recovery, wellbeing, and purposeful activities

Support individuals in planning for their future, including preparation for release and community reintegration

Promote positive mental wellbeing through health promotion activities and awareness events, such as World Mental Health Day

Work collaboratively with prison staff and healthcare colleagues to ensure coordinated and effective care

Support qualified practitioners in the smooth and effective delivery of services

The success of the ISFL relies on strong partnership working between staff, residents, healthcare teams, and treatment providers to create and sustain a positive recovery culture that supports individuals to achieve their goals.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.