Senior Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist

East London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in East London is seeking experienced Senior Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologists to join their thriving psychology department. The successful candidates will deliver psychological care, supervise colleagues, and contribute to service development in a diverse community setting. This role offers a competitive salary of £64,156 to £71,148 per annum, with opportunities for professional development and supervision of trainees.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology or equivalent.
• Experience providing specialist psychological assessments and treatment.

Responsibilities

• Provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
• Provide psychological consultation to multi-disciplinary team.
• Maintain professional development and adhere to guidelines.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Psychological intervention

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Research methodology knowledge

Cultural awareness

Supervision experience

Organizational skills

Education

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology

Pre-qualification training in applied psychology

Job description

Senior Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist

We are seeking two experienced and dynamic senior psychologists to join our large and thriving psychology department in the forensic service at ELFT. Both vacancies are in our medium secure service; one in our High Dependency Unit, and the other on an established treatment ward.

The successful candidates would join existing multidisciplinary teams to provide psychological care to service users to promote their recovery, reduce the risk of harm to others, and to support their progression and discharge back to the community. They would also act as line managers and supervisors to colleagues, contribute to service development, and be part of our large psychology department with access to good quality supervision and CPD opportunities. Our links with doctoral programmes also means there are opportunities to supervise trainee psychologists and contribute to taught content on clinical and forensic psychology doctoral programmes.

Based in the heart of East London, we provide services to a very diverse local population, and we are therefore particularly keen to hear from candidates who represent these communities that we serve.

Main duties of the job

• Provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention to service users in the forensic directorate.
• To provide psychological consultation to the wider multi-disciplinary team
• To provide senior psychological support and supervision to staff within the psychology department and to take an active role in service development.
• To be responsible for maintaining own professional development and for working within service guidelines, policies and procedures.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology, or equivalent qualification such as Statement of Equivalence, leading to eligibility for Chartered status, or Depending on training needs, may hold a professional qualification in psychology and be undertaking further training to complete requirements for a Statement of Equivalence
• Pre-qualification training in a relevant field of applied psychology

Knowledge and Skills

• Awareness of diversity, and skills and commitment to provide a service that is appropriate to a diverse population
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment
• Skills in working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Skills in delivering psychological interventions in individual and/or group formats, adapted to meet the needs of the individual or group
• Skills in effective oral and written communication of complex and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide range of recipients both within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce letters, reports, and associated documentation appropriate to its readership, and to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance
• Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professionals and carers
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own work
• Postgraduate level knowledge of research methodology, including research design, and complex statistical analysis; audit skills
• Ability to plan and deliver teaching and training sessions; high level presentation skills
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (complex needs, personality disorder, dual diagnosis, substance misuse, offending)
• Fluency in a second language
• Knowledge of the legal framework in which forensic services operate, and of other agencies and systems involved in the treatment /management and care of mentally disordered offenders
• Knowledge of the evidence base for psychological interventions with the forensic client group Ability to use multi-media presentation materials
• Knowledge and skills in applying Quality Improvement methodology to service improvement projects.

Experience

• Experience of providing specialist psychological assessments and treatment interventions to patients with complex problems
• Experience of working with a variety of patients reflecting a wide range of clinical severity
• Experience of involving service users in the co-production of service delivery
• Experience of teaching, training, and supervision
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
• Experience of working in a range of care settings, including outpatient, inpatient and community
• Experience of working in a forensic specialism

Other

• Ability to produce high quality professional results to specified deadlines and other time constraints
• Ability to effectively manage verbal aggression and the risk of physical aggression from patients or carers
• Ability to effectively manage frequent exposure to highly distressing /emotional circumstances
• Ability to concentrate and remain in constrained positions for substantial periods during patient contact, teaching/supervision, team meetings, preparation of written work, etc.
• Ability to recognise, contain and work with organisational and personal stress
• Ability to work creatively, co-operatively, reliably and consistently both as an independent practitioner and in multi-disciplinary and team settings
• Respectful approach to patients, carers, colleagues, and others
• Willingness to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally

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.

£64,156 to £71,148 a yearper annum Inc HCAs