Social network you want to login/join with:
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
6a4064ff8cec
Job Views:
6
Posted:
03.03.2025
Expiry Date:
17.04.2025
Job Description:
Join us for a unique opportunity to work as 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 people, to help improve the experience and outcomes for individuals who experience the world as profoundly unsafe, often associated with the diagnostic label of a ‘personality disorder’. This is a training role. 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. Your interview for the course programme will be completed at the same time as the interview for this post.
Main duties of the job:
To provide a highly specialist psychological service across the Yorkshire and Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership (YHPDP):
1. YHPDP offers a suite of services under the national OPD strategy, jointly commissioned by HMPPS and the NHS. Service users will be under Probation and at high risk of seriously harmful reoffending, likely linked to severe personality-based difficulties.
2. The trainee will work across the CORE Offender Management service, Discovery Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS), and Psychologically informed Planned Environment Approved premises (PIPE APs) to enhance the assessment, supervision, and risk management of high-risk offenders.
3. The post holder will be required to work independently on a day-to-day basis under supervision and subject to review at regular intervals, in accordance with the training route, Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), and British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines.
This is a full-time post. The post holder will be expected to undertake the tasks required to demonstrate competencies for training, within the required timeframes, according to the route.
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 also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research, and development. There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working, and remote working arrangements.
Duties and Responsibilities:
In order to commence the PgD Forensic Practitioner Programme stage 2 training in Forensic Psychology as advertised in this role, candidates will hold a BPS accredited undergraduate degree in Psychology, a BPS accredited Masters degree in Forensic Psychology, and have at least 1 year of experience in applied forensic psychology.
1. You will have an understanding of interpersonal and personality/related difficulties and/or mental health difficulties and how these relate to offending behaviour.
2. The post holder will be required to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information relating to service users and their carers whilst working in a highly emotive atmosphere.
3. The post holder will have demonstrable organisational and workload management skills and complete work around the core competencies of the qualification.
Person Specification:
Qualifications and registration:
Essential criteria: BPS accredited undergraduate psychology degree, which confers eligibility for graduate basis for chartership with BPS 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. Essential to gain a place on the training course.
#J-18808-Ljbffr