Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical/Forensic) 7-8a Development Post

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Colchester is seeking a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist. This role involves conducting specialist assessments, providing advice, and supervising Assistant Psychologists. The ideal candidate shares values of compassionate care and will contribute to service development and innovative practices. Join our dedicated team to make a positive impact on mental health services across Essex, ensuring high standards and quality care for diverse service users.

Qualifications

• Must be HCPC registered as a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist.
• Experience in providing psychological assessments and interventions.
• Ability to supervise and support Assistant Psychologists.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist psychological assessments and risk assessments.
• Provide psychological advice and consultation to colleagues.
• Supervise Assistant Psychologists and maintain standards.

Skills

Specialist psychological assessment

Consultation and advice

Clinical supervision

Service development

Research skills

Education

HCPC registered Clinical or Forensic Psychologist

Job description

Job Overview

This can be a development post for a band 7 psychologist, or an 8a post to a candidate with the right experience.

We are looking to appoint an HCPC registered Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to join the Essex Community Offending behaviour Service (ECOS). We are a welcoming multi-disciplinary team, providing a service of excellence for service users across Essex. This post brings a diversity of opportunity, from providing specialist assessments and intervention, to supervising and supporting other members of the team.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Completion of specialist psychological assessment and risk assessment, and treatment of service users referred to the service.
• Providing highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to a service user's formulation, treatment and risk management plans.
• Providing clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists working in the service.
• Supporting psychological aspects of service development, evaluation, research and teaching and maintaining standards in supervision and CPD.
• Regular travel will be required as part of this role.

We recognise the key role that consultation can play in developing our services and being a central part of our psychology offer. The ideal candidate for us will be someone who shares our values about offering compassionate and trauma-informed services. The ethos of the team is one of continuous quality improvement and providing positive experiences in the process of service users being discharged from inpatient settings. We are passionate about co-producing the content of our service offer, and we are looking for candidates who share a passion for service development and innovation. We hope that candidates will bring skills and knowledge to support audit, research, and project development within the service.

About HPFT

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

Trust Values

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

• Welcoming.
• Kind.
• Positive.
• Respectful.
• Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?