Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Are you interested in working with people on probation?
Are you interested in Personality Disorders?
Are you a forensic, counselling or clinical psychologist?
Are you interested in collaborative working to deliver key outcomes for service users?
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for a Psychologist working within our Community Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) service across East and West Lincolnshire. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person to support the ongoing delivery of the core consultation and the IIRMS (Intensive Intervention Risk Management) services, offering a mix of consultation, supervision, training and time-limited intervention. We would welcome applications from newly qualified psychologists with relevant experience who we will support on a 12-24 month preceptorship programme from band 7 to 8a.
Main Duties of the Job
This position is within the Community OPD service in Nottinghamshire. We are keen to work with people who are eager to work across the Directorate. The successful applicant will be supported with Schema Therapy accreditation to support the schema-informed service provision.
Job Responsibilities
We are committed to working in partnership with the National Probation service. The successful applicant will be based within probation and work closely with Probation Practitioners to deliver a joint service. We also work in partnership with prison services, other healthcare providers and our criminal justice system partners to improve health, support justice and reduce re-offending behaviour. The Offender Health Team truly believes it can make a difference to the lives of individuals in the criminal justice system by offering consistent, equitable, high-quality services to service users. If this sounds like a directorate you would like to join, we would like you to be part of our team. You should be enthusiastic, motivated, patient-focused and enjoy a challenge, ideally with experience or knowledge of an OPD service or the OPD pathway.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology.
* Must be HCPC registered and able to demonstrate eligibility for registered status as a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist.
* Chartered Clinical or Forensic status.
* Further relevant post-qualification training.
Work Experience
* Experience of working effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
* Minimum two years supervised practice developing expertise in forensic clinical psychology practice and in forensic mental health.
* Experience of facilitation of ward/MDT based supervision groups and/or reflective spaces.
* Experience of delivering specific group programmes.
* Experience of training and supervision of staff, MDT colleagues, and other psychologists.
* Experience of clinical audit, service evaluation and research.
* Experience of providing and evaluating evidence-based highly specialist psychological interventions to address complex problems and needs of mentally disordered offenders in a forensic service.
Values and Behaviours
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork.
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role.
Contractual Requirements
* Ability to travel to each location.
* Driving licence.
Further Training
* Advanced knowledge, experience and expertise in at least one specialist area of Clinical/Forensic practice gained through specialist training and supervised practice, e.g. psychotherapy, neuropsychology, risk assessment, and Clinical/Forensic supervision.
* Advanced knowledge, experience and expertise in forensic mental health services and systems gained through specialist training and supervised practice.
* Evidence of training in areas relevant to Men's Mental Health forensic service e.g. trauma-informed care, CBTp, CBTt, Schema Therapy, EMDR.
* Record of clinical effectiveness in a forensic service.
* High level of ability to plan and organise clinical service provision to meet service demands.
* Proven ability to work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams.
* Research Skills.
* IT literacy, e.g. experience of SPSS, databases, spreadsheets.
* Knowledge of legal system/MHA.
* Broad knowledge of models of assessment, management and treatment of mentally disordered offenders in forensic settings.
* Can demonstrate competence in supervision of junior psychology and/or MDT staff and/or psychology trainees.
* Presentation and teaching skills.
* Experience of dissemination of research/service evaluation e.g. Publications.
Dispositional Attributes
* Commitment and enthusiasm.
* Reliability & personal integrity.
* A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however, reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary
£46,148 to £60,504 per annum pro rata.
Contract
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full-time
Reference Number
186-1237-24-FS-B
Job Locations
National Probation Service, Grange House, 46 Union Street or 8 Corporation Street.
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