Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-FOR7276880
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- FOR Community Therapies
- Town
- LONDON
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 Per annum incl HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist
Band 8A
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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 overview
The East London Community Forensic Service (ELCFS) is seeking a Senior Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist to join our multidisciplinary team. The ELCFS was commissioned following the successful pilot of the Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT) model in East London. We offer support for service users as they leave the inpatient Forensic Directorate to reintegrate and re-establish lives in the community. Borough based multidisciplinary teams include RCs, Social Workers, CPNs, Psychologists, OTs, Family Therapists, Arts Therapists, Drugs and Alcohol Practitioners, Peer Support Workers and Carer Peer Support Workers.
The overarching aims of the ELCFS are 1. to provide inreach support to help service users move safely towards discharge and so reduce length of stay in secure care, and 2. to provide enhanced support in the community, to promote sustained recovery and quality of life in the community, reducing recalls to hospital.
There are various components to the ELCFS model, including: developing service user skills; support in accommodation; accessing education and employment; addressing substance misuse; access to psychological and recovery focused therapies; working with carers; peer mentorship; and the development of care pathways and system relationships. There is a strong focus on service user involvement and collaboration with community organisations.
Main duties of the job
In addition to direct psychological intervention, both individual and group, the role also involves a significant amount of MDT working, including leading on psychological formulation and risk meetings. Band 8a Psychologists across the service are responsible for the supervision and line management of qualified psychologists, other therapists in the team, as well as peer support workers, trainees and students from training courses with established links to the Forensic Directorate.
Psychologists are involved in service development and take up strategic roles in relation to service objective as required. Psychologists will be required to utilise research skills in audit and engage in other research and development activities. There are teaching and training opportunities and established links with University courses across London.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychology or equivalent accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- Evidence of CPD in accordance with BPS recommendations
- Either: Recognized qualification or training in psychotherapy supervision or Clinical supervision training for doctoral clinical /counselling psychology trainees.
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist by the HCPC.
- Post Qualification Training in a Psychotherapy Modality: e.g. SFT, DBT, CFT, EMDR, CBTp, CBT for trauma.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-qualification experience in adult mental health, including experience at highly specialist level in a forensic or rehabilitation specialism, across different settings/levels of security (e.g. inpatient and community; medium and low security)
- Advanced level experience of risk assessments and risk management
- Providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention across a range of care settings including community and inpatient.
- Providing teaching, training and clinical supervision including teaching professional groups outside of psychology.
- Co-produced clinical care, including goal setting, using a Recovery approach
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychology in various teams and working groups
- The use of QI or other improvement methodology in clinical settings
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study, or experience – or a combination of these – to an appropriate level approved by the Head of Psychology and demonstrated by certification, documented supervision logs, management appraisal documentation and/or assessment at interview.
- 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
- Postgraduate level knowledge of research methodology, including research design, and complex statistical analysis: audit 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)
- Ability to effectively manage verbal aggression and the risk of physical aggression from patients or carers
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of National and Government directives relevant to the development and delivery of forensic mental health services.
- Ability to use advanced IT packages
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Bickerdike
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02085104960
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