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Occupational Therapist and Group Work Practitioner, West Yorkshire
Client: Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: b4514c61a1c3
Job Views: 7
Posted: 03.03.2025
Expiry Date: 17.04.2025
Job Description:
This is a training role for a Forensic Psychologist in Training across the Yorkshire and Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership (YHPDP). The service focuses on enabling progressive and trauma-informed ways of engaging individuals who experience the world as profoundly unsafe, often associated with a diagnostic label of ‘personality disorder’. To ensure our successful applicant gains a place on a training programme, we are interviewing jointly with Cardiff Metropolitan University. If you decide to apply for this role, please also apply for the PgD programme at the same time, noting on the university application that you are applying for this trainee Forensic Psychologist role.
Main Duties of the Job:
1. Provide a highly specialist psychological service across the YHPDP.
2. Work across the CORE Offender Management service, Discovery Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS), and Psychologically Informed Planned Environment Approved Premises (PIPE APs).
3. Enhance the assessment, supervision, and risk management of high-risk offenders, including joint casework.
4. Work independently on a day-to-day basis under supervision and subject to regular review.
5. Undertake tasks required to demonstrate competencies for training within the required timeframes.
Working for Our Organisation:
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We offer many benefits including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working arrangements, and the NHS Pension Scheme.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities:
This role is a 3-year fixed term appointment with progression to a Full-time, permanent band 7 role as a Forensic Psychologist contingent on successful completion of the training and HCPC registration as a Forensic Psychologist. Experience within the criminal justice system or secure mental health care is ideal.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Support the psychologically informed case management of service users.
2. Complete psychological formulation and assessment.
3. Deliver individual and group-based interventions.
4. Provide consultation and psychologically informed advice to HMPPS colleagues.
5. Contribute to service development projects, including training, policy development, and research.
6. Complete all requirements of the PgD programme.
Person Specification:
Qualifications and Registration:
Essential criteria: BPS accredited undergraduate psychology degree, and BPS accredited MSc degree in Forensic Psychology required for registration to Stage 2 of the Forensic Psychology training qualification.
Training:
Essential criteria: Minimum of 12 months experience working in a forensic and/or clinical forensic service undertaking direct work with forensic populations.
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