Clinical/Forensic Psychologist
2 days ago
This is a 12-month part-time position covering maternity leave. The role involves providing a comprehensive, highly specialist clinical and forensic psychology service to patients within the Men's Personality Disorder Service, as part of an integrated trauma-informed treatment pathway.
Main Responsibilities- Provide highly specialist psychological assessments to patients within the allocated services, based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from various sources.
- Formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patients' mental health problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients' problems.
- Implement a range of psychological interventions, individual and group, within and across teams, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- Liaise closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team, giving authoritative specialist advice on psychological aspects of care, contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis, and treatment planning.
- Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and provide advice and training to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
- Communicate in a skilled, persuasive, and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of patients, and monitor progress during the course of their multidisciplinary care.
- Disseminate knowledge and skills in both general aspects of forensic clinical psychology, as well as a designated specialist area.
- Represent Rampton Hospital and Psychology on Trust-wide and other committees and groups, as agreed with the Head of Psychology and with a clear brief.
- Develop networks and contacts to update the policy and practice of forensic clinical psychology, particularly as applied to mentally disordered offenders, to support professional and service development.
- Receive regular clinical supervision from a qualified psychologist and, where appropriate, other professional colleagues.
- Deploy skills in the area of professional postgraduate teaching, training, and supervision, particularly of clinical and forensic psychologists.
- Supervise junior psychology staff and professional psychology trainees.
- Provide teaching, training, and supervision to staff and MDT colleagues, and other psychologists.
- Continue to gain experience, and particularly in an agreed specialist area.
- Use theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other MDT colleagues.
- Devise and undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to others undertaking research, to develop service and clinical forensic psychology knowledge base as agreed with the Lead Psychologist.
- Undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, as agreed with the Head of Psychology.
The duties and responsibilities of this post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies, procedures, and practices of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and with the Code of Conduct and Guidance on Professional Practice issued by the British Psychological Society and the Health and Care Professions Council.
Management, Recruitment & Service Development- Contribute to the development, evaluation, and monitoring of the services through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation, and audit as agreed with the Head of Psychology.
- Identify and advise service managers on those aspects of the service where psychological or organizational matters need addressing.
- Help manage the workloads of junior psychologists as directed by the Head of Psychology.
- Conduct individual performance reviews of junior staff by agreement with the Head of Psychology.
- Be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of psychology staff.
Work within the provisions of the Trust Health and Safety Policy.
General Duties- Contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the Head of Psychology.
- Contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the fields of clinical and forensic psychology and related disciplines.
- Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording, and report writing, and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance, in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the Health and Care Professions Council, and Trust policies and procedures.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to both the specific patient group and mental health.
- Ensure that all aspects of professional activity (communication with patients, relatives, colleagues as well as in the assessment, development/delivery of interventions) issues of diversity such as race, culture, identity, gender, and sexuality are sensitively considered and incorporated to reflect individual differences appropriately.
- Ensure that service users are appropriately consulted about relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment enabling such views to be assimilated/incorporated into continued service development and improvement.
- Develop individual formulations and lead team formulation planning, applying theoretical models of the psychology for mental health and offending to observed behavior, cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal patterns, for patients in the allocated services, who present complex clinical cases.
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