Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity to join the psychology bank at Rampton Hospital in the National High Secure Healthcare Service for Women (NHSHSW) to cover gaps within service until January 2026.
The role will involve providing a comprehensive clinical and forensic psychology service to a named caseload of patients and ward team(s) within the NHSHSW, as part of an integrated trauma informed care pathway.
The post holder will have the opportunity to gain wider post-qualification experience of trauma-informed and gender sensitive psychological provision, as part of an agreed personal development plan. This includes opportunity to develop expertise in the delivery of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, as well as offering advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to other members of the clinical team.
We welcome applications from practitioner psychologists, including clinical, forensic, counselling and health. We will consider applications from candidates who are close to qualification (within six months).
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, and provide advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to other members of the clinical team.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for a more detailed overview of the main duties of the job.
Job responsibilities
1. To provide psychological assessments to patients within the NHSHSW, 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 patients and others involved in the patients care.
2. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessments and interventions with patients on their caseload.
3. To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
4. 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.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
6. 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.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice and training to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
9. To communicate in a skilled, persuasive and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment formulation and treatment plans of patients, and to monitor progress during the course of their multidisciplinary care.
10. To disseminate knowledge and skills in general aspects of forensic clinical psychology.
This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post-holder.
Person Specification
Physical Requirements
* Ability to undertake MVA training and employ these skills when required.
Qualifications - Academic / Craft / Professional
* Good honours degree in psychology, accredited by the British Psychology Society.
* MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology (applicants with equivalent training as a practitioner psychologist (for instance Health and Counseling Psychology) will also be eligible.
* Must be HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
* Chartered status or eligibility for chartered status with the BPS.
* Further relevant post-qualification training/qualifications.
Experience
* Experience of working collaboratively and effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
* Experience of working with people, in gender sensitive ways, who present severe problems and complex needs.
* Experience of exercising clinical responsibility, under supervision, for psychological care and treatment in the context of multidisciplinary care plans.
* Experience of Risk Assessment.
* Experience of working with women in forensic mental health settings.
* Experience of delivering female specific group programmes or interventions.
* Experience of facilitating ward/MDT based supervision and/or reflective practice groups.
Contractual Requirements
* Ability to carry out all mandatory training.
* A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use (due to the remote location of the hospital, reliance on public transport can be challenging).
Values and Behaviours
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork.
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role.
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.
Depending on experience Band 7-8a £27.01-£30.94ph + £4012 pa pro-rata Secure Allowance.
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