- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or Masters or doctoral level training in forensic psychology and completion of competencies
- Registration with HCPC
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care 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
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience working with service users presenting with psychosis
- Experience of working in a forensic setting
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information
- 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.
- Skill in the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working with long term mental health conditions and/or forensic settings
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
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Clinical / Forensic Psychologist - Enfield, United Kingdom - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
Description
Job summary
Band 7 Clinical or Forensic Psychologist
North London Forensic Service
Looking for somewhere to establish your career in forensic mental health or for a change? The North London Forensic Service (NLFS) is recruiting Clinical or Forensic Psychologists to our inpatient services. There are opportunities to work in medium, low and learning disability services. It is an exciting time to join our service as we continue to embed trauma-informed practices, alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues and Experts By Experience.
With a large psychology team, NLFS benefits from a wealth of experience and expertise. A range of training and CPD opportunities are available, and the opportunity to contribute to active Research and Quality Improvement Forums.
As a Trust, we adopt trauma-informed recovery-based approaches to human distress, including psychosis, substance misuse and complex offending behaviour, using a wide range of therapeutic approaches. Medium to long term work is the norm.
Main duties of the job
3 WTE band 7 posts are available, with options of full/part-time, flexible, hybrid working. Two of the roles will be based on our main site at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, and one of the posts will be a split post also working at a low secure ward in Edmonton/Enfield).
Delivering an autonomous psychological service, incl. assessments/interventions (group and individual), consultation/training, forensic risk assessment using high level communication skills to convey complex/sensitive information to patients, colleagues and external agencies is essential.
Please direct any enquiries to:
LD/A role: Dr Rebecca Williams, Forensic Psychologist ; )
LSU/MSU role: Sara Boulter, Head of Therapies ; ) or Dr Benny Bhanot ()
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. The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars. 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 descriptionJob responsibilities
To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to detained patients within the inpatient services at the North London Forensic Service (including low and medium secure wards). The successful candidate will support the provision of psychological interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team including leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, in addition to contributing to developing research, offering supervision, consultancy training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. The use of research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the North London Forensic Service will also be required.
Person SpecificationEDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
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EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
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SKILLS AND ABILITIES
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