Job summary
Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust are proud to provide outstanding Forensic Mental Health services to the population of Surrey.
Often, people who have a forensic profile feel that they are overlooked. Our Forensic Outreach and Liaison (FOLs) seek to redress this balance, to advocate for this group of people enthusiastically and inclusively. We pride ourselves on working collaboratively with the people who use our services and their carers to ensure that people receive care as close to home as possible and that they don't spend a day longer in secure placements than is necessary.
We are seeking a passionate and committed lead psychologist to join our FOLs team - you will be working with friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary teams who greatly value the skills and expertise of our Clinical / Counselling Psychologists. You will be working with high risk, complex mental health difficulties, offering supervision to colleagues and be part of a leadership team committed to developing the therapeutic offer of the service.
Main duties of the job
oTo plan and deliver a highly specialist psychology service (in leadership or advanced therapy role) and to oversee its clinical To be responsible for the professional leadership and continued development of a team and/or service To be responsible for the development and implementation of appropriate policies, protocols and care To ensure that the needs of people with protected characteristics are addressed within local services and future To demonstrate highly specialist expertise and specialist psychological skills such as specialist psychological assessments, formulation, therapeutic interventions and consultation to support people with complex needso To act as supervisor/teacher in teaching, facilitating and supporting pre-registration students and junior personnel and to participate in the audit of educational placements. To participate in new staff To research national best practice and enable services to benchmark practice against nationally recognised standards - in partnership with people who use services and To lead in developing and conducting clinical audit and research, maintaining current knowledge of research findings and development within the relevant area of practice.
About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
2. Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees
3. hcpc registration
Desirable
4. Additional academic clinical qualification relevant to area of work
5. Additional leadership/management study
Experience
Essential
6. Extensive post qualification clinical experience in relevant clinical setting
7. Experience of leading in clinical practice, service development or project work.
8. Experience of supervising trainees, assistant psychologists, qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and others providing psychological therapies
9. Experience of implementing change following audit and service evaluation
10. Demonstrableexperienceofdevelopingcomplexformulationsdrawingonmultiple psychological models
11. Experience of advising other professionals on complex psychological issues and risk