Clinical/ Forensic Psychologist

Hampshire And Isle Of Wight Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Band 8b Principal Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to join the Ashford Low Secure Unit and the Forensic Community Learning Disabilities Team. The role leads psychological services within an innovative team accredited by QNFMHS and QNLD, using Good Lives Model, PBS and adapting DBT to support trauma-informed, person-centred care.

The post involves strategic development, delivering interventions, complex formulations and risk

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or forensic psychology (BPS accredited).
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Non-Clinical Psychologists will need to demonstrate the above competencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological support to designated teams in assessment and treatment of people with learning disability and challenging/offending behaviours.
• Oversee and coordinate service development; deliver a range of psychological interventions.
• Advise on formulation, psycho‑logical intervention and risk to NHS colleagues and external agencies.

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or forensic psychology (BPS accredited)

HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist

Supervision of other psychologists training/experience

Job description

Job summary

HIOW NHS FT seeks a Band 8b Principal Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to join Ashford Low Secure Unit and the Forensic Community Learning Disabilities Team (FCLDT). Our specialist service supports people with learning disabilities who pose a risk of offending or have contact with the criminal justice system. We aim to reduce reoffending, promote safer communities and prevent unnecessary secure admissions/custody. The role offers the opportunity to lead and develop psychological services within an innovative team accredited by QNFMHS and QNLD. Our approach includes the Good Lives Model, psychological formulation, Positive Behaviour Support and adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, promoting trauma-informed, person-centred care. Working with senior management and MDTs, you will contribute to strategic development, deliver psychological interventions, complete complex formulations and risk assessments, and collaborate with partner agencies to support safe transitions between inpatient and community care. The post would suit a psychologist experienced or interested in learning disabilities and forensic practice. We offer supervision, training, development and career progression.

Main duties of the job

To provide psychological support to designated teams / service areas in the assessment and treatment of referred people with learning disability and associated challenging or offending behaviours. To work alongside colleagues to enhance the assessment and treatment of people admitted to low secure service, or at risk of admission, due to behaviours of concern, as well as treatment for offenders with learning disability who require psychological interventions.

The post-holder will oversee and co-ordinate service development and direct delivery of the range of psychological interventions in line with the current evidence base and best practice. To ensure the appropriate delivery of assessment, treatment and outcomes for referred people with learning disability and associated challenging or offending behaviours.

To provide advice and consultation on formulation, psychological intervention and risk to non-psychologist NHS colleagues, external agencies and non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Services policies and procedures.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Essential Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or forensic psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Non Clinical Psychologists will need to be able to demonstrate the above competencies.

Desirable Qualifications

• Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of assessment and/or psychological intervention e.g. DBT, trauma focused therapy, accredited offending behaviour work.
• Leadership/Management training.
• Trauma informed care training.

Essential Experience

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical/forensic psychologist.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to individuals, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of working with individuals with complex health problems.
• Skills in the application of interventions for individuals with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour and/or offending histories.
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with individuals and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to constructively manage situations and people at times of conflict.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists and/or psychological therapists.
• Ability to work collaboratively with senior managers and staff in service delivery and developments.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical/forensic psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
• Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• IT skills including email, word processing and basic databases.
• Interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
• Ability to meet travel requirements of the post.

Desirable Experience

• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of working within learning disability settings.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of managing staff.
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and severely challenging behaviours etc).
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Tatchbury Mount, Calmore, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 2RZ, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/

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