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Job overview

To provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention at the same time as offering clinical leadership and guidance, advice and consultation on psychological aspects of the delivery of services in addition to the client’s overall care package. To provide expert advice and consultation, supervision and teaching on adult Forensic Mental Health conditions to other professionals in the team and in related services to enable provision of effective and appropriate care. To have an awareness and understanding of national policy and apply this to the FCMHT model of care delivery. This would include advanced knowledge in respect of specialist assessments, crisis management, therapeutic interventions, and research evidence. To actively contribute to service development alongside colleagues in the local and neighbouring services to ensure consistent and high-quality services are developed and provided to adults with forensic mental health needs across the County. To work autonomously within professional guidelines whilst ensuring that the FCMHTs work within professional guidelines and adhere to Trust policies and procedures. To use the highest quality of psychological evidence and clinical accountability to inform and enable best practice.  To utilise research skills for outcome measurement, audit, policy and service development and research.  To offer management support and to propose and implement policy changes within the service.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide psychological  guidance to the FCMHT
2. Responsible for the provision of highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions.
3. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
4. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide supervision and advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
5. To communicate to referrers and others involved in the client’s network of care in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients.

Working for our organisation

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’. CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years’ service 
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBTI+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities