Senior Clinical/Forensic Psychologist- Enhanced Support Service

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on prisoners' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non/professional carers. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

This post does not have any budgetary responsibilities.

The post-holder will be required to ensure that outcome data is gathered, to produce audits/ evaluations, which demonstrate the efficacy of the Service to Commissioners as requested/ required.

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• Doctoral Level training in clinical Psychology or Forensic
• specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Knowledge of Psychological theories of Personality Disorder development.
• Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training.

Desirable criteria

• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
• Additional training or accreditation for another therapeutic modality, e.g. schema therapy, EMDR
• Specialised training related to Personality Disorders (e.g. Assessment and/ or Intervention).

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological problems or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with offenders
• Ability to work independently within a framework
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies

Important Information

Applications will be transferred to the TRAC system, by completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.

Please note that all new starters to the trust are subject to a probationary period.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• ESS Psychologist (PDF, 592.5KB)
• Benefits (PDF, 570.7KB)