Job summary
To provide a comprehensive, highly specialist clinical and forensic psychology service within the Mental Health Service. To provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention as well as offering advice and consultation regarding service users' psychological care to other members of the clinical team. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within Rampton Hospital.
The post-holder will provide a highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy service to male service users within the Mental Health Service. The post-holder will offer advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the Hospital's policies, procedures and service priorities.
The post-holder will participate fully in multidisciplinary clinical teams, at times leading them. They will develop knowledge and skills in general aspects of forensic clinical psychology and the assessment and treatment of service users who are legally detained as 'mentally disordered' and experience a range of complex mental health difficulties. The post-holder will be capable of conducting projects, working largely independently, with only general briefings and working directly to Trust senior managers.
Main duties of the job
Clinical or Work Practice
To provide specialist psychological assessments
to service users within the Mental Health Service,
based upon the appropriate use, interpretation
and integration of complex data from a variety of
sources including psychological and
neuropsychological tests, self-report measures,
rating scales, direct and indirect structured
observations and semi-structured interviews with
service users and others involved in the service
user's care.
To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a service user's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user's difficulties, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, individual and group, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose difficulties are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To liaise closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team, giving authoritative specialist advice on psychological aspects of care, contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment planning.
About us
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As detailed above and in job description. In summary
To provide specialist psychological assessments to service users within the Mental Health Service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users and others involved in the service users care.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.
Person Specification
shortlisting
Essential
- Qualifications; MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology. Must be HCPC registered and able to demonstrate eligibility for chartered status as a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist.
- Further Training; Advanced knowledge, experience, and expertise in at least one specialist area of clinical/forensic practice gained through specialist training and supervised practice (e.g., psychotherapy, neuropsychology, risk assessment, clinical and forensic supervision). Advanced knowledge, experience, and expertise in men's mental health services and systems gained through specialist training and supervised practice.
- Work Experience; Experience of working effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. Clinical experience developing expertise in forensic clinical psychology practice, specifically applied to psychosis and/or complex trauma. Experience of facilitation of ward and/or multi-disciplinary based supervision groups and/or reflective spaces.
Desirable
- Evidence of training in areas relevant to men's forensic mental health services e.g., trauma informed care, CBTp, CBTt, Schema Therapy, EMDR.
shortlisting
Essential
- MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology. Must be HCPC registered and able to demonstrate eligibility for chartered status as a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist.
Desirable
- Experience of training and supervision of staff and other psychologists.
Skills
Essential
- Record of clinical effectiveness in a forensic service.
- High level of ability to plan and organise clinical service provision to meet service demands.
- Proven ability to work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams
- Research skills
- IT literacy
- Knowledge of legal system and mental health act
- Broad knowledge of psychosocial models of assessment, formulation and intervention relevant to forensic mental health
- Presentation and teaching skils
- Groupwork skills
Desirable
- Experience of dissemination of research/service evaluation eg. publications.
Dispositional attributes
Essential
- Good communication skills
- Commitment and enthusiasm
- Reliable and personal integrity
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Rampton Hospital,
woodbeck
DN220PD
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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