Working as part of the Intensive Personalised Support (IPS) management team, the Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist is responsible for providing effective clinical guidance, support, and oversight across all of IPS operations. The appointee will work with management colleagues and delivery teams to ensure that the service is at the cutting edge of excellence and that outcomes for clients are demonstrably better than would otherwise be the case. This means involvement with cases from the referral stage through to their completion as summarised in greater detail within the duties and responsibility section below. It also includes involvement with creating, updating, and maintaining service policies, procedures, and outcome measures. The Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist will work primarily on a consultancy model, achieving clinical oversight through their supervision of assistant psychologists and our positive behaviour support practitioner and their support of our delivery team. Nonetheless, in more complex instances the post holder may be required to carry out assessments and interventions directly with clients, or support their supervisees in meetings. In addition to providing robust clinical guidance to the IPS service, there will be opportunities to provide expert advice and support to other ABL services, as well as ample opportunities for career development. The Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist will also assess needs, strive to reduce distress, and work to improve the psychological wellbeing of clients and/or their families who may have a variety of mental or physical health conditions, come from diverse backgrounds, and are often neurodivergent. We also welcome work to support team wellbeing and reflectiveness, an area we have been developing more in recognition of the challenging situations our team have to navigate and the importance of looking after our team so that they can provide the best support to our clients. As a person-centred company, who strive to develop individuals, we are open to applications from individuals who are still in training but near to qualification. Such applications are likely to be considered on a preceptorship scheme due to the leadership aspects within this role. Duties and Responsibilities, whilst maintaining a focus on SAFETY: 1. To support the IPS Service Lead by providing clinical input into what referrals are appropriate and a good match for IPSs model as well as any clinical risk considerations/information that needs to be gathered during the referral process. 2. To allocate a clinician to each case IPS takes on and support them as the clinical lead for all cases IPS take on. This means that while allocated clinicians (assistant psychologists or the positive behaviour support practitioner) carry out a lot of the assessment and intervention work, clinical oversight and responsibility will sit with the post holder. 3. To supervise and continue to develop clinical report writing within the service. Most clients will need, at minimum, an initial and a final report. 4. To supervise and support with assessment and intervention plans for clients, including the implementation of outcome measures specific to the client and on a service-wide level. On some occasions, this may involve the post holder carrying out more complex assessments and interventions which will likely involve travel to clients. 5. To provide clinical supervision to the services allocated clinicians. This includes supervision of both written work and practice. 6. To design and provide training for IPSs clinical team and team as a whole. This may include assessing training needs and working with operational leadership to maintain the service training plan/matrix. 7. To chair IPSs internal MDTs. As these are still a newer process, you may also need to support allocated clinicians with arranging/planning them to begin with. 8. To attend and contribute to the divisional MDT. 9. To have oversight of and promote the CPD and training of allocated clinicians within the team. This includes identifying training needs and assessing whether they are best met internally or externally. 10. To work collaboratively with internal and external colleagues as well as clients around assessment and intervention, ensuring clear communication with robust data protection throughout your work both internally and externally. This will likely necessitate multiagency liaisons and careful consideration around consent, capacity, and legal frameworks as some clients have difficult working relationships to other professionals. 11. To ensure that the service maintains a high standard and procedure around consent and capacity for each of our diverse clients. This may include working to ensure service policy and standard operating procedures are robust in addition to work on an individual level with clients and their teams. 12. To ensure that routine outcome measures are being collected and reported. 13. To work with the operational side of the IPS leadership team to integrate therapeutic language and thinking into ways of working alongside the aspects of operational expertise other managers contribute. 14. To input into and help to maintain any clinical risk assessments. 15. To co-develop psychological formulations and positive behaviour support plans in a way that is understandable to clients, their families, and the teams supporting them. This may be in a consultancy role or a more active role depending on the complexity of the case 16. To guide, supervise and/or support teams working with clients with complex behavioural needs, challenging behaviours, and/or emotional and psychological needs. 17. To work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate and contribute to a psychological understanding of behaviours and presentations and to attend and fully engage with multi-disciplinary meetings. 18. Be aware of new and innovative approaches to managing complex cases and new service developments and promote these effectively within the organisation. 19. To work and communicate effectively with colleagues and clients, as well as the systems and staff that support them and in which they function, whilst personally tracking and completing agreed actions within agreed timescales. 20. To contribute, leading where appropriate, to the evaluation and improvement of service provision for clients and to the development of systems that support better outcomes. 21. Be able to contribute to the CPD of the service, through the dissemination of knowledge and skills. 22. Possess competence in assessing, formulating and working therapeutically with clients in the service area. 23. Have an up-to-date knowledge of legislation and its implications for the profession and the client groups we work with. 24. To maintain records, written and/or digital, enter timely and accurate data, and produce reports in accordance with professional and best practice guidance and ABL standards. 25. To engage with regular professional supervision, CPD, and appraisal and to maintain a comprehensive understanding of current developments in related disciplines. 26. To attend, provide evidence for, and contribute to Progress Review Boards and relevant divisional meetings such as Restraint Reduction reviews. 27. To continue to support the ongoing development and implementation of our updated clinical models and processes. In all of the above, the Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist will understand and engage with all relevant Governance systems, particularly Caldicott and Information Sharing principles, Safeguarding, Radar Incident Reporting, and Risk Registers. This is a demanding job, but an exciting opportunity to help a newer, needed service to establish itself. ABLs highly experienced and professional multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance and Business Development specialists are there to support. You will also have clinical supervision from our Professional Lead for Mental Health, an experienced and supportive consultant psychologist. We are also excited to share that as the organisation grows we now have a dedicated space for psychologists across the organisation to share knowledge and provide peer support on a monthly basis in addition to supervision.