Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen creating a position for a highly skilled and experienced Consultant Psychologist to join the team. This is a part time role (0.6wte) working as part of our Specialist Services Division across Criminal Justice and Forensic Services.
The post will predominantly work within our community forensic team and liaison and diversion service supervising psychologists within these pathways to provide a much valued and high quality psychological provision.
You will be an integral and key member of divisional management team influencing psychological thinking giving the right candidate the opportunity to apply their skills in a post with leadership responsibilities.
We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and reflective psychologist and leader who has both passion for and experience of working within health and justice settings.
Our teams are based in Lincoln but work countywide and we offer various options as a working pattern including hybrid model and remote working. Some attendance will be required at meetings and other forums therefore the need to be flexible and be able to travel when required.
For further information and to discuss the role and/or to arrange an informal visit we would encourage you to contact Samantha Harris, Trust Lead for Psychology samantha.harris1@nhs.net and/or Rachel Bradley, Service Manager rachel.bradley16@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be expected to contribute to audit, service evaluation and research as part of service development, attending conferences, presenting, and disseminating best practice.
The post offers opportunities for further post-doctoral training and CPD and will be supported by both clinical and professional supervision.
Close academic links with the D.Clin courses would offer additional supervisory and professional opportunities.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be expected to contribute to audit, service evaluation and research as part of service development, attending conferences, presenting, and disseminating best practice.
The post offers opportunities for further post-doctoral training and CPD and will be supported by both clinical and professional supervision.
Close academic links with the D.Clin courses would offer additional supervisory and professional opportunities.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, or Forensic Psychology (or equivalent) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post-doctoral experience and training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice for use within the designated specialty
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
- Eligibility for Chartered Status
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Registration with the BPS and/ or ACP-UK
- Full Member of the BPS Faculty of Forensic Psychology or the Division of Forensic Psychology
- Formal training or evidence of CPD in Clinical Supervision
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist within the designated specialty including evidence of specialist knowledge gained through clinical practice as relevant to criminal justice and forensic settings and complex mental health needs, learning disabilities and autism
- Extensive knowledge of a range of psychological therapies and models and experience of applying them at an individual, group, team, and system level
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment both as a lead professional and, also within the context of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of providing consultation, supervision, and training to non-qualified and qualified mental health staff, including clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists
- Experience of providing consultation, supervision and training to staff from partner agencies
- Experience of active engagement with formal review panels, such as MAPPA or MHA review tribunals
- Experience of leadership of multi-professional teams/ groups.
- Experience of conducting and interpreting neuropsychological assessment
- Experience of leading on service planning and development.
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge and experience of working with behaviours that challenge within the designated specialty.
- Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary, and private sector agencies
- Experience working with commissioned/contracted/sub contracted services.
Skills and competences
Essential
- Ability to develop good working relationships with service users and their families, relatives, carers, and colleagues.
- Ability to contain and work with families, relatives, carers and staff stress, and 'hold' the stress of others, including being able to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to families, relatives, carers, and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and a broad array of behaviours that challenge, ranging from mild to severe
- Ability to analyse highly complex psychological data in order to develop individual psychological formulations within a biopsychosocial framework
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of and across multidisciplinary teams.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological and neuropsychological assessment, intervention and management requiring sustained mental effort, involving tasks demanding intense concentration
- Skills in the use of recognised and evidence-based risk assessments methodologies, e.g. HCR-20, RSVP.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical, clinically sensitive information and/ or contentious information to a wide range of people in a constructive and understandable way.
- Ability to creatively adapt the evidence base for interventions where communication style presents barriers to understanding and/ or expression are present.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism when exposed to highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal threat or the threat of physical abuse.
- Ability to identify and use, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
- Excellent organisational and planning skills.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in professional, academic and public settings, alongside a high level of computer literacy.
- Self-aware and committed to continuing professional development, and able to accept and respond positively to feedback within both clinical and professional supervision
- Warmth and genuineness
- Values consistent with delivering excellent psychological services
- Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation relevant to this service area
- Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel independently throughout the county, without the use of public transport.
- Ability to lift and carry heavy test material
- Police level 2 vetting is required to work within custody and court settings.
- Enhanced prison vetting is required to work within Lincolnshire prisons
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, or Forensic Psychology (or equivalent) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post-doctoral experience and training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice for use within the designated specialty
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
- Eligibility for Chartered Status
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Registration with the BPS and/ or ACP-UK
- Full Member of the BPS Faculty of Forensic Psychology or the Division of Forensic Psychology
- Formal training or evidence of CPD in Clinical Supervision
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist within the designated specialty including evidence of specialist knowledge gained through clinical practice as relevant to criminal justice and forensic settings and complex mental health needs, learning disabilities and autism
- Extensive knowledge of a range of psychological therapies and models and experience of applying them at an individual, group, team, and system level
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment both as a lead professional and, also within the context of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of providing consultation, supervision, and training to non-qualified and qualified mental health staff, including clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists
- Experience of providing consultation, supervision and training to staff from partner agencies
- Experience of active engagement with formal review panels, such as MAPPA or MHA review tribunals
- Experience of leadership of multi-professional teams/ groups.
- Experience of conducting and interpreting neuropsychological assessment
- Experience of leading on service planning and development.
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge and experience of working with behaviours that challenge within the designated specialty.
- Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary, and private sector agencies
- Experience working with commissioned/contracted/sub contracted services.
Skills and competences
Essential
- Ability to develop good working relationships with service users and their families, relatives, carers, and colleagues.
- Ability to contain and work with families, relatives, carers and staff stress, and 'hold' the stress of others, including being able to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to families, relatives, carers, and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and a broad array of behaviours that challenge, ranging from mild to severe
- Ability to analyse highly complex psychological data in order to develop individual psychological formulations within a biopsychosocial framework
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of and across multidisciplinary teams.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological and neuropsychological assessment, intervention and management requiring sustained mental effort, involving tasks demanding intense concentration
- Skills in the use of recognised and evidence-based risk assessments methodologies, e.g. HCR-20, RSVP.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical, clinically sensitive information and/ or contentious information to a wide range of people in a constructive and understandable way.
- Ability to creatively adapt the evidence base for interventions where communication style presents barriers to understanding and/ or expression are present.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism when exposed to highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal threat or the threat of physical abuse.
- Ability to identify and use, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
- Excellent organisational and planning skills.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in professional, academic and public settings, alongside a high level of computer literacy.
- Self-aware and committed to continuing professional development, and able to accept and respond positively to feedback within both clinical and professional supervision
- Warmth and genuineness
- Values consistent with delivering excellent psychological services
- Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation relevant to this service area
- Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel independently throughout the county, without the use of public transport.
- Ability to lift and carry heavy test material
- Police level 2 vetting is required to work within custody and court settings.
- Enhanced prison vetting is required to work within Lincolnshire prisons
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
