Clinical Lead (Forensic Liaison and Partnership Team)

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness opportunities

Flexible working

Job summary

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust in Stoke-on-Trent is seeking a highly experienced psychologist to join the Forensic Liaison Partnership team on the Mental Health Rehabilitation pathway. You will conduct specialist single case assessments, provide formulations, and supervise community teams involved with patients transitioning from secure care.

Applicants must be HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist and have substantial experience with severe and enduring mental health

Qualifications

• Honours degree in psychology.
• British Psychological Society membership.
• Post-graduate doctoral training in clinical or forensic psychology accredited by the BPS.

Responsibilities

• Carry out highly specialised single-case assessments, formulations and consultations with service users and treating teams.
• Provide consultation, supervision and support to community teams taking on patients from secure care.
• Develop evidence-based management plans, advise colleagues and partners, and monitor and refine formulations through transition.
• Contribute specialist psychological input to risk assessment and management for transfers from inpatient to community settings.
• Build working relationships with secure service and community colleagues and partners.
• Communicate complex formulations and management plans in an accessible way.
• Maintain professionalism despite regular exposure to emotive and distressing material.

Skills

Excellent communication

Risk assessment & management

Clinical supervision

Education

Honours degree

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

Job description

This 16-month fixed-term post sits in the new Forensic Liaison Partnership team on the Mental Health Rehabilitation pathway at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust. The psychologist provides specialist single case assessments and formulations, and consults and supervises community teams taking on people from forensic services. The focus is smoother transitions from secure care, so that community services feel able to support this group. Applicants need HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist and substantial experience with severe and enduring mental health problems.

What the job involves

• Carry out highly specialised single case assessments, formulations and consultations with service users and treating teams
• Provide consultation, supervision and support to community teams taking on patients from secure care
• Develop evidence-based management plans, advise colleagues and partners, and monitor and refine formulations through transition
• Contribute specialist psychological input to risk assessment and management for transfers from inpatient to community settings
• Build working relationships with secure service and community colleagues and partners
• Communicate complex formulations and management plans in an accessible way
• Maintain professionalism despite regular exposure to emotive and distressing material

What’s required

Qualifications

• Honours degree
• British Psychological Society membership
• Post‑graduate doctoral training in clinical or forensic psychology accredited by the BPS (or pre‑1996 equivalent)

Registration & licences

• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist

Experience

• Substantial experience working as a qualified psychologist with people with severe and enduring mental health problems
• Experience of assessment and clinical interventions across a wide range of presentations, including personality disorder

What’s offered

• Wellness opportunities
• Flexible working