Clinical/Counselling/Forensic/Health Psychologist

Clinical/Counselling/Forensic/Health Psychologist

The post holder will be required to support the delivery of care currently in the form of New Models of Care, enabling the service to meet the London Wide service specification standards for Prison Healthcare.

The post holder will support the therapies team to ensure they work to an agreed operational policy and offer integrated triage, assessment and intervention to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems in line with the New Models of Care.

To provide a qualified specialist psychology service to patients under the care of the Mental Health team and Therapies Service within the Prison. The role includes providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To provide supervision to unqualified psychology staff and to support senior staff to further develop the service. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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 clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

Consultation, Teaching, Training, and Supervision

1. To provide consultation and training to other professionals within the unit developing understanding of psychological interventions; which will assist with day to day clinical practice.
2. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
3. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the service manager and professional psychology manager).
4. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
5. To provide professional and clinical supervision of junior members of the department including qualified staff and trainees.
6. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or forensic psychology, as appropriate.
7. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Person Specification

Education

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• HCPC registered
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Experience

• Experience of working within a forensic setting/service (ideally prison environment)
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

Skills

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skill in the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working with mentally disordered offenders. Trained in the ADOS/ADI-R Formal training in supervision.

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.

Therapies Lead / Specialist Health Psychologist

£51,883 to £58,544 a year Per annum including HCAS