Clinical Psychologist - London, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust
East London NHS Foundation Trust
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The East London Community Forensic Service (ELCFS) is seeking a Senior Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist to join our multidisciplinary team. The ELCFS was commissioned following the successful pilot of the Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT) model in East London.

We offer support for service users as they leave the inpatient Forensic Directorate to reintegrate and re-establish lives in the community.

The service covers the boroughs of Hackney Newham Tower Hamlets and those in North East London Foundation Trust.

Borough based multidisciplinary teams include RCs, Social Workers, CPNs, Psychologists, OTs, Family Therapists, Drugs and Alcohol Practitioners, Peer Support Workers and Carer Peer Support Workers.

The overarching aims of the ELCFS are 1.

to provide inreach support to help service users move safely towards discharge and so reduce length of stay in secure care, and 2.

to provide enhanced support in the community, to promote sustained recovery and quality of life in the community, reducing recalls to hospital.

There are various components to the ELCFS model, including:

developing service user skills; support in accommodation; accessing education and employment; addressing substance misuse; access to psychological and recovery focused therapies; working with carers; peer mentorship; and the development of care pathways and system relationships.

There is a strong focus on service user involvement and collaboration with community organisations.


The East London Community Forensic Service is multidisciplinary service, for service users in the process of and following discharge from the Forensic inpatient service.

The overarching aims of the ELCFS are 1.

to provide inreach support to help service users move safely towards discharge and so reduce length of stay in secure care, and 2.

to provide enhanced support in the community and so promote sustained recovery and quality of life in the community, reducing recalls to hospital.

The ELCFS service model places a strong emphasis on Recovery, service user involvement, and co-production.

The model stresses the importance of working across the care pathway from inpatient to community, and there is an emphasis on building relationships with community services to work collaboratively to address the needs of the population.


In addition to direct psychological intervention, both individual and group, to service users who have been discharged from the forensic directorate, the role also involves a significant amount of MDT working, including leading on psychological formulation and risk meetings.

Band 8a psychologists across the service are responsible for the supervision and line management of qualified psychologists, other therapists in the team, as well peer support workers, trainees and students from training course with established links to the forensic directorate.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve


Our values are:

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
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