Senior Forensic Psychologist

2 weeks ago

Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Job Title: Adult Principal Practitioner Psychologist

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Adult Principal Practitioner Psychologist to join our team in the Forensic Mental Health and Psychiatric Intensive Care Specialities. The successful candidate will play a key role in the development and provision of psychological services to adult inpatients of the Cwm Seren LSU and PICU in Carmarthen.

Main Responsibilities
  • Lead on the provision of specialist psychological assessment and intervention to clients admitted to the Cwm Seren LSU and PICU in Carmarthen.
  • Work therapeutically with individuals, groups, families, and significant others to meet the full range of referred needs.
  • Contribute to service development, care and treatment planning, and provide consultation, training, and supervision to multidisciplinary teams.
  • Ensure that all members of the treatment team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the Service.
  • Act as a Specialist Resource for clinical-forensic psychological risk evaluation and management.
Requirements
  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in Applied Psychology as accredited by the BPS, including clinical psychometrics and cognitive/neuropsychological assessment.
  • HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
  • Knowledge of the full range of evidence-based psychological interventions from low to high intensity, including guidelines for their appropriate use.
  • Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the fields of Applied Psychology.
  • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
  • Knowledge and/or qualifications relating to work within Forensic mental Health and Acute Mental Health.
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions relevant to the Service's client groups.
  • Knowledge and advanced skills in risk assessment methodology and risk management.
  • Knowledge and skills in Resource Based Therapies (e.g. solution-focused, motivational, positive interventions).
  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and Mental Health.
  • Accredited, specialist training in a therapeutic modality e.g CBT, DBT, MBT.
Experience
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course.
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
  • Significant experience of conducting and interpreting cognitive/neuropsychological assessment and clinical psychometrics.
  • Significant experience of providing teaching, training and clinical supervision to qualified psychologists and other staff working in Mental Health.
  • Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
  • Experience of multiagency/partnership working.
  • Specific experience of assessing and treating within inpatient services.
Language Skills
  • Ability to speak Welsh (level 1) is desirable.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£59,857 to £69,553 a year per annum pro rata.

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