The North London Forensic Service (NLFS) is currently recruiting Clinical or Forensic Psychologists to our Specialist Community Forensic Team. It is an exciting time to join our service as we continue to embed and develop our community forensic provision, alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues and experts by experience.
NLFS benefits from a large psychology team with a wealth of experience and expertise to absorb. A range of training and CPD opportunities are available, as well as the possibility of contributing within active Research and Quality Improvement Forums.
This role would suit those who hold an interest in holistic, attachment and trauma-informed recovery based approaches to considering human distress, including psychosis, substance misuse and complex offending behaviours. Medium to long term work (without constraints on the length of clinical work) is the norm.
1.0 WTE Band 7 Psychologist post is available, within the Specialist Community Forensic Team, with opportunities for full or part-time, flexible and hybrid working. This service works with patients who are leaving/have left Forensic Mental Health secure inpatient wards. The predominant base for the roles will be at the Chase Farm Hospital site in Enfield, though travel within community locations within boroughs will be required. The boroughs covered are Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden and Islington.
The post holder will be required to offer an autonomous psychological service, including a range of psychological assessments and interventions, consultation and training as part of a multidisciplinary team within the service. An understanding of forensic risk assessment, high level communication skills and an ability to engage well with and convey complex or sensitive information to service users, colleagues and external agencies is essential. Support and supervision of more junior psychological staff may also be required.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
· We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
· We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
· NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
· Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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 clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, 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.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Wednesday 20 Nov 2024