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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and competent Band 8A Psychologist to join an expanding Community Forensic Psychology Service. This is an exciting area of forensic services to work in; forensic community teams across the country are being expanded and invested in, consistent with the NHS Long Term Plan.
The post holder would join a well-established and well respected forensic team: NELFT's low-secure forensic unit, Morris ward, has ranked first in the UK and Ireland according the Quality Network for Forensic Mental Health Services (QNFMHS).
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will provide assessment and evidence-based interventions to service users presenting with complex mental health issues including psychosis, trauma histories and substance misuse, in addition to offending behaviour.
* This job will require direct face to face working with service users. This post will involve travel between sites within the areas served by NELFT.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Doctoral qualification in psychology (clinical or counselling or forensic psychology) accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
* Professional registration with the HCPC
Essential criteria
* Substantial, relevant post-qualification clinical experience in working with serious mental health difficulties including psychosis, personality disorder, and serious offending behaviour
* Experience of psychological clinical work in forensic services (e.g. offender mental health settings; low-secure and/or medium-secure inpatient units; prisons; or community forensic services)
* Experience of offering supervision, teaching, training and consultation.
Benefits
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
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