Professional Lead/Consultant Psychologist - Forensic Division

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Willerby; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the United Kingdom seeks a Professional Lead/Consultant Psychologist for their Forensic Division. This key position involves providing professional leadership to psychologists across services, offering expertise in complex cases, and engaging in strategic planning and service development. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in psychological practice and a commitment to continuing professional development. The role includes collaborative work with various departments, embodying the Trust's values of diversity and support for staff development.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Registered psychologist with experience in offending behaviour and trauma.
• Expert knowledge in advanced psychological therapies for difficult cases.
• Significant experience at senior psychological practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee psychological professionals in forensic services.
• Provide clinical oversight and supervision across various cases.
• Represent the forensic division in trust-wide initiatives.

Skills

Leadership skills

Therapeutic techniques

Communication skills

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level in psychology

Current HCPC Registration

Job description

Professional Lead/Consultant Psychologist - Forensic Division

This is a rare opportunity to join our high-performing Forensic Division as a Lead & Consultant Psychologist, at an exciting time as we bring together all psychological professions. A registered psychologist with experience and expertise in offending behaviour, trauma, and a range of mental health and neurodevelopmental difficulties, you have opportunity to work within your chosen areas of specialism.

Providing professional leadership to the Psychological Professionals across all service lines, supporting strategic planning, service development, and quality improvement, this is a key role in shaping care from community to community.

You will hold a small caseload and provide specialist consultation and clinical supervision to psychologists and wider MDT colleagues. We value the different strengths and interests brought by each member, offering you the chance to practice within models of your choice.

You will report professionally to the Associate Director of Psychological Professions and have a network of other lead psychologists and PPs. Strategic and project work will be expected for the development of the psychological professionals and ensuring that psychological thinking is at the heart of all practice.

We value CPD: we have strong links with the University of Hull, as host provider for the DCLinPsyc, and support a wide range of other training pathways, with teaching, training and supervision opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• professionally and strategically lead the psychological professionals in the forensic division, across in-patient, community and prison services, providing clinical oversight to all services.
• provide clinical expertise, expert case consultation and case work with the most complex cases, and clinical supervision of other cases
• undertake delegated tasks from the Associate Director for Psychological Professions.
• be part of the senior leadership of the forensic division and represent the division in Trust-wide and regional projects and forums where required.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information please refer to the job description and person specification document attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in psychology or its equivalent as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan development psychology
• Current HCPC Registration
• Expert theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical area
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities and severely challenging behaviour

Experience

• Significant assessed experience of working as a registered psychologist, to include a significant period of working/clinically specialising at a senior level in the field where the post is held
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Demonstrable experience of working across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships

Skills and Competencies

• Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced level
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.