Principal Forensic/Clinical Psychologist

18 hours ago

Enfield, United Kingdom 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The North London Forensic Service (NLFS) is currently recruiting Clinical or Forensic Psychologists to our Specialist Community Forensic Team. It is an exciting time to join our service as we continue to embed and develop our community forensic provision, alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues and experts by experience.

NLFS benefits from a large psychology team with a wealth of experience and expertise to absorb. A range of training and CPD opportunities are available, as well as the possibility of contributing within active Research and Quality Improvement Forums.

This role would suit someone with an established career within forensic mental health, looking to develop their leadership skills further and to hold responsibility as the Psychology Lead for the Choices Community Partnership: Specialist Community Forensic Team.

Main duties of the job

Up to WTE Band 8b Clinical/Forensic Psychologist post is available, within the Choices Community Partnership: Specialist Community Forensic Team (CCP: SCFT), with opportunities for flexible and hybrid working. This stream of the SCFT service works with predominantly non-restricted patients who are leaving/have left Forensic Mental Health secure inpatient wards. The predominant base for the roles will be at the Chase Farm Hospital site in Enfield, though travel within community locations within boroughs will be required. The boroughs covered are Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden and Islington.

The post holder will be required to offer an autonomous psychological service, including a range of psychological assessments and interventions, consultation and training as part of a multidisciplinary team within the service. They will also be required to support more junior psychology colleagues and to be involved in service development. An understanding of forensic risk assessment, high level communication skills and an ability to engage well with and convey complex or sensitive information to service users, colleagues and external agencies is essential.

About us

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide a qualified specialist clinical and forensic psychology service to patients under the care of NLFS providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To work with the Consultant Psychology Lead for SCFT to deliver psychology leadership within the Choices Community Partnership stream of the Specialist Community Forensic team, supporting the continued development of the interface between inpatient and outpatient forensic mental health services with respect to psychology provision. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service in order to evaluate the service and provide evidence for further service development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology. OR Doctoral or Masters level training in forensic psychology with full competencies completed. Registration with HCPC.

Desirable

Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, which can include outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence. Experience of working within a forensic setting/service. Experience of teaching and training. Experience of the supervision of qualified psychology staff. Experience of service development.

Desirable

Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. Experience of working in a CMHT. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Skill in the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working with mentally disordered offenders. Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Able to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

Desirable

Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.

Personal Qualities

Essential

Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team. Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team. Able to work autonomously as well as under supervision and with colleagues. Demonstrable leadership and management qualities.

Other Requirements

Essential

Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

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