Clinical Lead (Forensic Liaison and Partnership Team)

NHS Jobs; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in the United Kingdom seeks a Clinical Lead for Forensic Liaison and Partnership Team to lead highly specialised single-case assessments, formulations, and consultations with service users and treating teams within a psychological framework.

You will develop detailed formulations, contribute to risk assessment and management during transitions from secure to community settings, and maintain professionalism when faced with distressing material while building strong professional

Qualifications

• Highly specialised psychological skills for single-case formulations and risk assessment.
• Ability to inform safe, effective future care through theoretical models.

Responsibilities

• Autonomously undertake highly specialised single case assessments and formulations.
• Develop case formulations using diverse theoretical models to inform management.
• Advise colleagues on evidence-based management plans and monitor outcomes.
• Contribute to risk assessment and management for transitions from inpatient to community settings.
• Maintain professionalism when exposed to distressing material.
• Develop strong liaison with secure services and community partners.
• Communicate complex client formulations and treatment plans to colleagues.

Skills

Autonomous assessments

Case formulations

Risk assessment

Interdisciplinary liaison

Professional communication

Job description

Clinical Lead (Forensic Liaison and Partnership Team)

• 1. To work autonomously in undertaking highly specialised single case assessments, formulations and consultations with the service user and/or treating teams to develop an understanding of the persons presentation, symptoms and related management difficulties within a psychological framework.


• 2. To utilise highly specialist psychological skills to develop case formulations that provide detailed psychological understanding of the persons presentation, symptoms and related management issues taking into account different theoretical models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that will inform safe and effective future care and management.


• 3. To make highly skilled decisions in advising colleagues and partners, in the development of evidence-based management plans for service users and to sensitively monitor the efficacy of the management plans through regular consultations with staff, adjusting and refining psychological formulations and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses during transition from secure to non-secure care.


• 4. To utilise highly specialist psychological skills to contribute to risk assessment and management to support transitions from inpatient to community settings.


• 5. To maintain a high level of professionalism despite regular exposure to highly emotive, distressing and disturbing material.


• 6. To develop excellent working relationships with secure service and community colleagues and partners that will underpin effective liaison, communication and learning.


• 7. To communicate in a manner that is accessible and meaningful to colleagues, this will include complex information concerning client formulation and management/treatment plans.