Principal Forensic Psychologist & Psychology Lead

Elysium Healthcare Limited; Hornton; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

33 days annual leave + birthday off

Career development and training

Rewards platform Ely-Vate

Blue Light Card access

Life Assurance

Wage access (Stream)

24/7 GP service

Maternity package

Job summary

Farmfield Hospital, part of Elysium Healthcare, is seeking a Principal Psychologist to lead the psychology department in a secure inpatient forensic setting for adult men with complex needs. You will oversee assessments, formulations and diverse interventions, while promoting staff development and clinical governance.

You will supervise Assistant Psychologists and lead recruitment, with opportunities for specialist skill development within a multidisciplinary MDT.

Qualifications

• Successful completion of a Doctorate in either Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology or the British Psychological Society's Stage 2 training in Forensic Psychology, enabling registration with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist.
• Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist and Charterable status with the British Psychological Society.
• Competency in advanced clinical psychological assessment and formulation skills relevant to our service user group.
• Competency as regards risk assessment/management tools and formulation.
• Advanced clinical therapeutic skills, both individual and group-based: Experience with a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches to address a range of complex clinical and/or forensic issues and needs.
• Clinical supervision and delegated line management responsibility for Assistant Psychologists; trainee psychologists (where applicable) and Clinical Associate Psychologists.
• Psychology-led workforce development interventions, including but not limited to facilitating reflective practice and relevant practical knowledge and skills workshops for staff of all disciplines and grades.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, integration and communication of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological testing, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, carers and other relevant stakeholders involved in the service user's care and recovery.
• Lead on formulation of plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of service users' mental health and broader psychosocial needs utilising appropriate, evidence-based clinical frameworks.
• Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Develop and manage groupwork programmes and innovative therapeutic approaches.
• Ensure that appropriate outcome measures are in place.
• Ensure that Psychology practices in the specified area of service maintains the highest standards of professional practice and ethics, complying with clinical governance standards at all times.
• Support the development and delivery of training programmes to aid the development of staff teams in a given service area.
• Provide clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists, as directed by the Lead Psychologist.
• Lead recruitment of psychology staff.

Skills

Assessment & formulation

Risk assessment

Clinical supervision

Leadership

Education

Doctorate in Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychology

HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist

BPS Chartered status

Job description

Farmfield Hospital, part of Elysium Healthcare, is seeking a Principal Psychologist to lead the psychology department in a secure inpatient forensic setting for adult men with complex needs. You will oversee assessments, formulations and diverse interventions, while promoting staff development and clinical governance.

You will supervise Assistant Psychologists and lead recruitment, with opportunities for specialist skill development within a multidisciplinary MDT.