Forensic / Clinical Psychologist - Specialist Community Forensic Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for more information:

Communication and Key Working RelationshipsTo be responsible for providing highly specialised psychological assessment and treatment for patients referred the SCFT Caseload.

To maintain professional, courteous and clear communication with patients, colleagues, internal and external stakeholders via all modalities (email, Teams meetings, professionals meetings)

Clients, family and carers:To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in understanding and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.

Multidisciplinary team colleagues:To work closely with colleagues in the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a day to day basis.

Health & social care staff:To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.

Senior managers & professional staff:To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers across Somerset Foundation Trust, South West Provider Collaborative, external stakeholders, etc. to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.To attend identified SWPC workstreams, SCFT team meetings and Somerset FT professionals meetings as appropriate

Key Relationships: SCFT MDT Ash Ward MDT SCFT Lead Psychologist Head of Forensic Service SCFT Operational Service Manager Community Psychology colleagues Inpatient psychology colleagues Other MDTs within the Forensic Service Somerset FT Forensic Locality Leads Criminal Justice agencies, including police and court staff South West Provider Collaborative colleagues Trust staff across professions Trust audit department Service users and their families SWPC commissioners.

Responsibility for Patient / Client Care, Treatment & Therapy To formulate and deliver plans for agreed psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems. This may be for inpatients due to commence a discharge pathway and/ or for patients who had moved into community settings.

To make skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options

To provide expertise and psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients assessments (including the management of risk), formulation, diagnosis, treatment plan and their legal status under the Mental Health Act.

To ensure that all members of the team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

To feedback to the MDT in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care

To monitor and evaluate progress of interventions.

To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.

To fully observe the HCPC (2008) Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics, BPS (1996) Code of Conduct and DCP (1995) Professional Practice Guidelines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Registered with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Eligible for Chartered Clinical Psychologist Status
• Significant experience of working with people with long term mental health problems

Desirable

• Accreditation in NICE approved therapy e.g., CBT or CAT
• Relevant specialist CPD training in psychological therapy with long term mental health problems
• Clinical Supervision training

Experience

Essential

• Competence in core psychological assessment formulation and skills intervention skills
• Competence in neuro-psychological assessment
• Teaching and training psychology to staff and other professionals
• Experience of working in a multi-professional/ multi- agency setting
• Experience of working with Forensic population

Desirable

• Experience of providing a psychological service to inpatient services.

Skills

Essential

• Compassionate - exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively
• Knowledge of the role and functions of other agencies and departments
• Ability to recognise and manage challenging situations in a calm and professional manner

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

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bridgwater

Bridgwater

TA6 5LX

Employer's website

https://www.somersetft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)