Senior Clinical or Forensic Psychologist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join our dedicated team as a Senior Clinical or Forensic Psychologist, where you'll provide expert psychological care in secure services. You will work primarily in the autism low secure service and play a crucial role in supporting individuals with complex needs. With a commitment to personal and professional development, we provide a supportive environment along with extensive training opportunities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Discounts with retailers and entertainment venues

Wellbeing support services

Qualifications

• Experience of working with adults with forensic needs in inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with people with autism and learning disability.
• Experience of MDT working.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments and individual and group therapies.
• Supervise others and contribute to training projects.
• Engage in service development and audits.

Skills

Assessment Methods

Therapeutic Approaches

Knowledge of Legislation

Education

Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC

Job description

Job summary

Senior Clinical or Forensic Psychologist (8a)- Full Time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced 8a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to join an established team of Clinical and Forensic Psychologists in the Secure Services at Brooklands Hospital. This is a full-time position primarily based within the autism low secure service, with some hours in the LD medium and low secure services.

The successful candidate will provide clinical and forensic input into the Men's Low Secure Autism and the LD secure services at Brooklands Hospital.

The secure service ethos is to help and support people who present considerable risk to others (as well as themselves) to return to a less restrictive environment and/or the community as soon as possible. The contribution of psychological services is highly valued within the teams and service management and is fully integrated within collaborative multi-disciplinary teams.

Positive Behavioural Support is a key component of our treatment approach and philosophy and the successful candidate will work closely with others on developing new and existing service projects, develop new and existing group programmes and provide support in training others. There is lots of personal and service development opportunity within this role.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will ideally have post qualification experience of working with forensic populations and/or experience of working with people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism who present considerable risk to others.

You will use your psychological skills and experience to provide assessments, individual and group therapies, team formulations, and reflective practice. You may also supervise others (qualified psychologists and non-psychologists) and be involved in training others, such as ward staff and multidisciplinary colleagues. Training others and contributing to and leading on service development projects and undertaking audit and research is an important part of this role.

The psychology department at Brooklands is a well-established and supportive service and the successful applicant will receive support to further develop their skills and knowledge, through good quality supervision and training opportunities. The teamwork from a number of different therapeutic approaches including CBT, CAT, CFT, EMDR and Schema Therapy. We provide a number of well-established and structured offence group programmes as part of the service user's comprehensive treatment pathway.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job description

Job responsibilities

All members of the psychology team receive excellent support, good supervision and opportunities for continuing professional development. There would be support and training provided to the post holder to support the development of their forensic assessment skills and/or therapeutic skills in a model applicable to the service user population.

The service has strong links with local clinical and forensic training doctorate courses and regularly provides placements for trainee clinical and forensic psychologists, supervision for research, and teaching on the courses. There are also strong links with community learning disability teams across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

For detailed information on the role see Job Description and Person Specification attached to the advert.

Job description
Job responsibilities

All members of the psychology team receive excellent support, good supervision and opportunities for continuing professional development. There would be support and training provided to the post holder to support the development of their forensic assessment skills and/or therapeutic skills in a model applicable to the service user population.

The service has strong links with local clinical and forensic training doctorate courses and regularly provides placements for trainee clinical and forensic psychologists, supervision for research, and teaching on the courses. There are also strong links with community learning disability teams across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

For detailed information on the role see Job Description and Person Specification attached to the advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with adults with forensic needs in inpatient/secure settings
• Experience of working with people with autism and learning disability
• Experience of MDT working

Desirable

• Experience of supervising others

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and the legal context of secure services
• Skills in applying knowledge of theory and practice of highly specialised psychological assessment methods and therapeutic approaches

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Commitment to working with offenders with ASD and LD

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with adults with forensic needs in inpatient/secure settings
• Experience of working with people with autism and learning disability
• Experience of MDT working

Desirable

• Experience of supervising others

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and the legal context of secure services
• Skills in applying knowledge of theory and practice of highly specialised psychological assessment methods and therapeutic approaches

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Commitment to working with offenders with ASD and LD

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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Address

Brooklands Hospital

Brooklands Way

Birmingham

B37 7HH

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