Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist
Location
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire | United Kingdom
Job description
The role
This post requires an experienced qualified psychologist with managerial experience and knowledge of complex mental health and forensic needs to support the development and embedding of a trauma-informed mental health service model across HMP .
The role focuses on offering clinical leadership and oversight to the Neurodiversity team and support the Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) in the form of training, reflective practice/ clinical supervision, case consultations & clinical supervision of Assistant Psychologists.
The role also includes core duties such as undertaking psychological assessments, supporting complex multi-disciplinary formulations and delivering psychological interventions for cases of great complexity. Currently, therapeutic expertise across our services includes cognitive-behavioural, schema focused, compassion focused, EMDR, dialectical behaviour and Mentalisation based therapies. Experience of using and reporting structured clinical judgment tools is desirable and a familiarity with relevant psychometric assessments essential. The emphasis is to provide a high quality, psychological service for individuals with complex, long term problems. There is an expectation that you’ll contribute through consultation with the prison to discussions and management of complex patients and feed into prison processes such as the Assessment Care in Custody Teamwork (ACCT) process and the Challenge, Support and Intervention Plan (CSIP). To support the current Talking Therapies and Psychology delivery and assist the integrated mental health team in the overall development of the availability of evidence based therapies.
The role involves the delivery and oversight of both 1:1 and group-intervention as part of the Trauma Informed ‘Making Sense’ Programme.
To deliver teaching and training to healthcare staff and prison staff as required as well as contribute to the training programme for the organization.
To contribute to the development of audit, service evaluation and research profile as appropriate.
Provide expert clinical advice and outstanding evidence based care, listening and acting on patient feedback so that care is personalised and informed by what matters to them.
You will also provide supervision of the day to day delivery of mental health therapies and lead on development of clinical practice and the implementation of the mental health/talking therapies pathway.
About you
Essentials:
• Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology (the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), the completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical/forensic/counselling psychologist for a minimum of 5 years post qualification, with a minimum of at least 2 years at the Senior (highly specialist) level. Highly developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical/forensic psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study, training and supervised experience during a minimum of 5 years as a qualified psychologist.
• Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings and forensic settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
• Relevant post-qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise clinical psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Clinical Psychology Training Course criteria
• Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment commensurate with doctoral level training, including specialist clinical interviewing, behavioural observation, complex psychometric testing and specialist neuropsychological testing.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated or technical; extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient; or that is extremely contentious or challenging.
• Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline i.e., HCPC/BPS
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional body.
• Experience working with psychological Trauma
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