We have an exciting opportunity for a compassionate and enthusiastic psychologist to join our Community Forensic Team (CFT). The post is open to either a B7 registered clinical/forensic psychologist, or a B6 forensic psychologist in training. B6 applicants would be enrolled on the BPS Stage 2 or equivalent training, or be currently eligible to enrol. You will work alongside our Highly Specialist Clinical/Forensic Psychologists and Assistant Psychologist within CFT to provide the psychology elements of the MDT, providing psychological formulation and using evidence-based interventions and assessments. You will provide consultancy and support to other members of the team in implementing a trauma-informed and psychologically minded approach. You will also be part of the wider psychology team in Forensic Services, providing access to a network of peer support and supervision. The Community Forensic Team work with service users to support them to live their best lives in the community. We do this by providing specialist assessments and interventions for our patient group including those within the transforming care cohort. We work with mentally disordered offenders who present a significant risk of harm to others by nature of their mental disorder, including those registered at MAPPA and those subject to conditional discharge under Part 3 of the Mental Health Act., Both the B7 and B6 applicants will be responsible for:
* Completing initial and continued assessments for individual referred to our service.
* Providing specialist psychological interventions to those on our caseload.
* Providing psychological formulations.
* Completing HCR-20 risk assessments.
* Provide consultation and advice to all members of the MDT.
* Provide advice and consultation to other LPFT teams and stakeholders.
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 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, 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. 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 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. Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.