Clinical/ Applied Psychologist

**Clinical/ Applied Psychologist -Centre for Mental Health and Justice**:**Band 8a**:
**Main area**

Clinical / Applied psychologist ( Centre for mental health and justice)
**Grade**

Band 8a
**Contract**

Permanent
**Hours**

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

**Job ref**

201-22-119-A

**Site**

CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND JUSTICE - COMMUNITY FORENSIC TEAM
**Town**

BODMIN
**Salary**

£47,126 - £53,219 Per annum
**Salary period**

Yearly
**Closing**

Today at 23:59

**Thank you for your interest in working for **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust**:
**Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust prides itself in striving to be an employer of choice.**
- Our Trust objectives are:_
- Improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities by working in partnership and creating opportunities for our citizens.
- Provide safe, high quality, timely and compassionate care and support, in local communities wherever possible, and informed by experience of people who use services.
- Make Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly a great place to work in health and social care.
- Working efficiently so health and care funding give maximum benefits.
- Create the underpinning infrastructure and capabilities that are critical to delivering high quality care and support.

All external appointments to the Trust will be required to attend a full Trust Corporate Induction which will be held at Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin, PL31 2QN.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
- An exciting opportunity to work in Cornwall Foundation NHS Trust’s Centre for Mental Health and Justice. This 8A Clinical/ Applied Psychology post involves delivering and coordinating clinical services to the Community Forensic Service. The post is held within the Centre for Mental Health and Justice which delivers four strands of clinical activity including the Probation focussed Offender Personality Disorder pathway, the Homelessness Vulnerability Liaison Service, the Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion Service and the Forensic Service._- The Community Forensic Team aims to support other services and agencies to manage the risk of harm to others by delivering a Consultation Clinic and Pathway, which will be coordinated by the successful applicant. This pathway involves delivering a range of mental health, adjustment, personality and offending behaviour assessments to service users who’s care is managed by other services of the Trust and sometimes beyond. The work is challenging and interesting, calling on the full breadth of an Applied Psychologists skillset._
- The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the wide range of activities of the Centre, including service evaluation projects, service development, risk management training and Multi-Agency Public Protection work. Applications are invited from those operating at Band 8A currently and those with relevant experience at Band 7._
- To achieve our Trust objectives, we prioritise the development of our staff. To support this, the following opportunities are available:_
- Protected CPD time for registered staff
- Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
- Leadership and Management development programmes
- Coaching and mentoring opportunities
- A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
- Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
- A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
- Individual professional development programmes
- Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:_
- Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
- Free DBS checks where required
- Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme

We are committed to diversity and equality of employment including the employment of current and former service users.

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The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will