HCPC Registered Senior Practitioner Psychologist

NHS; Stafford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is looking for an HCPC Registered Senior Practitioner Psychologist to join their Forensic Intensive Recovery Support Team. The role involves delivering specialist psychological services and supporting individuals in community settings post-forensic inpatient discharge. Candidates should have post-graduate training in psychology, relevant experience with severe mental health issues, and skills in assessment and intervention. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a profound impact in forensic mental health services.

Qualifications

• Experience with severe and enduring mental health difficulties presenting risks.
• Experience within a multi-disciplinary team and with clinical responsibility.
• Experience delivering teaching and training using complex materials.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist psychological services to FIRST users.
• Provide advice and consultation on risk management and care pathways.
• Offer psychological assessment and therapy for complex cases.

Skills

Complex psychological assessment methods

Consultation skills

Intervention management

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical, Forensic or Counselling psychology

Currently registered with HCPC

Job description

Job Summary

The Forensic Intensive Recovery Support Team (FIRST) has an exciting vacancy for an HCPC Registered Senior Practitioner Psychologist within our established multi‑disciplinary community team. This role will expand psychological provision within FIRST, supporting people discharged from forensic inpatient services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver highly specialist psychological services to service users supported by FIRST, ensuring a high‑quality community forensic service.
• Provide expert advice, guidance and consultation to professionals on interventions, risk management and care pathways for service users in forensic inpatient and community settings.
• Communicate complex information confidently and effectively.
• Offer specialist psychological assessment, individual and group therapy for complex presentations.
• Supervise and support psychologically informed care delivered by other staff.
• Plan and deliver training for MPFT and partner organisation staff.
• Undertake and share audit, service evaluation and research.
• Work across forensic inpatient wards, community services, residential placements and custodial settings, attending in person for assessments, treatment or meetings within the northern West Midlands and nationally.

Experience

• Experience of face‑to‑face work with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and a history of behaviour that presents a risk of harm to others.
• Experience of working within a multi‑disciplinary team (MDT) and representing psychology within the context of multi‑disciplinary care.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and intervention, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of delivering teaching and/or training, using a variety of complex multi‑media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Qualifications & Training

• Post‑graduate doctoral level training in Clinical, Forensic or Counselling psychology (or its equivalent), as accredited by the BPS.
• Currently registered with HCPC and eligible for chartered status with the British Psychological Society.
• Post‑qualification training for role of clinical supervisor.
• Experience of working as a qualified psychologist with people with severe and enduring mental health problems who present a serious risk of harm to others.

Desirable

• Post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Post‑qualification training for role of clinical supervisor (e.g. STAR for DClinPsy trainees).
• Experience of co‑production with service users or carers, of training, quality improvement or other service initiatives.
• Experience of working with third sector and/or supported housing providers.
• Skills and knowledge relevant to the implementation of trauma‑informed practice in mental health services.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in the assessment, formulation, treatment and management of people who present a serious risk of violent or sexually harmful behaviour in hospital and community settings.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.

Additional Information

Disclosures, sponsorship and registration requirements are as per NHS Trust policy. For further details, candidates should review NHS Careers and the UK Visas and Immigration website.

Employer Details

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
St Georges Hospital
Stafford
ST16 3SR