Clinical Psychologist and Forensic Lead
1 month ago
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Forensic or Clinical Psychologist to lead our dedicated Forensic CAMHS team.
About the RoleThe Regional Forensic CAMHS team champions trauma-informed interventions for young people with a range of needs, often including a combination of mental health, neurodiverse, and forensic presentations. Our aim is to help teams understand risk from a psychological perspective and assist in changing lives for vulnerable young people.
Main Duties- Maintain and further develop links with key agencies across the region.
- Provide a clinical/forensic psychology service to young people across the South West region.
- Develop and undertake psychological assessments, formulations, and interventions with this client group.
- Provide advice to psychologists and other professionals working with young people in local CAMHS services, Children's Social Care, Youth Offending settings, and secure settings.
- Liaise closely with psychologists and other professionals working in specialist services.
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
- Utilize research skills for audit, policy, and service development.
- Provision of clinical supervision for staff, trainees, and volunteers employed by or attached to the service.
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits, including flexible working, the NHS pension scheme, a generous annual leave allowance, and a commitment to career development. We are proud of our skilled, diverse workforce and as an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from all backgrounds. Working in Somerset enables you to enjoy the idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty, and stunning coastlines while still being a stone's throw away from bustling city centers like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter and only two hours away from London.
Key ResponsibilitiesClinical- Provide comprehensive psychological/specialist assessment based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources, including psychological and neuropsychological tests, personality and risk assessment, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and other individuals involved in the client's care.
- Offer specialist assessments specific to your professional discipline where appropriate.
- Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems and employing methods of proven efficacy.
- Establish, maintain, and end purposeful, therapeutic relationships with young people and their families. Practice will be creative and underpinned by specialist knowledge of and skills in evidence-based and psychosocial interventions.
- Provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters, and families.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and provide advice on risk to the multi-disciplinary team relevant to your discipline, including understanding and responding to safeguarding issues.
- Consult with and provide specialist mental health and psychological guidance to families, school staff, and other relevant professionals directly involved with the care of the young person.
- Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner verbally and in writing highly complex and sensitive information in a manner appropriate to a range of settings and audiences, including complex, highly emotive situations.
- Promote equality of outcome for clients that reflect their mental health needs and those of ethnicity, gender, culture, physical health, and age.
- Promote social inclusion and physical and mental well-being using evidence-based practice, underpinned by the principles of hope and recovery, health promotion, and relapse prevention.
- Be responsible for own work and interventions with highly complex presentations as an autonomous practitioner and seek consultation appropriately from supervisor and colleagues.
- Exercise independent clinical professional judgment in complex clinical cases and difficult clinical situations, referring to team members when necessary.
- Monitor, evaluate, and record progress during intervention, assessing and re-evaluating as necessary, within the framework of the Care Programme Approach (CPA), including outcome measures.
- Work collaboratively within the Regional Forensic CAMHS Service and with other teams in England to undertake a range of procedures and practices underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practice.
- Be responsible for maintaining and influencing professional standards in relation to government policy, frameworks, and Trust directives.
- Manage their own diary, balancing competing priorities and demands.
- Follow safeguarding protocols and processes as part of their daily practice.
- Write reports summarizing complex information to guide clinical care.
- Undertake evidence-based risk assessments, including Structured Professional Judgment instruments, and report effectively.
- Provide day-to-day leadership, supervision, and coordination of the work of less senior staff within the team as appropriate.
- Provide advice, consultation, and training and clinical supervision to other members of the Service/other agencies for the provision of psychologically based/specialist interventions to help improve clients' functioning.
- Provide training to the Regional Forensic CAMHS team and staff in other agencies that is in line with the level of the post.
- Contribute to team leadership and to work with senior colleagues to help develop and improve the service.
- Encourage a culture of evidence-based practice in all parts of the service.
- Participate regularly in the agreed systems for supervision.
- Professionally supervise psychology staff, trainees, and volunteers.
- Participate annually in the agreed system of appraisal.
- Monitor and support other staff's programmes of care for young people.
- Supervise trainees and volunteers and other less senior staff.
- Respond to identified needs in the staff team for training and teaching in psychological/specialist skills as agreed within the job plan.
- Provide pre- and post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to clinicians as appropriate and agreed within the annual job plan.
- Maintain and develop skills in professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.
- Utilize theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in service delivery, individual work, and work with other clinicians.
- Undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
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