Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical or Forensic Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 28 hours per week (Pattern of working is flexible throughout the Monday - Friday 9am -7pm, working week.)
- Job ref
- 186-916-24-MH
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Clayfields House Secure Unit
- Town
- Stapleford, Nottinghamshire.
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/08/2024
Employer heading
Clinical/Forensic Psychologist
Band 7
Job overview
Are you looking for something a bit different, a new challenge, a varied role?
We are seeking to recruit a registered Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to join our fantastic multi-disciplinary CAMHS team within Clayfields House (Children’s Secure Home) to support the psychological provision and help support Psychological Assessment, Formulation, Therapeutic Intervention and Evaluation of the young people.
The role is varied and offers major opportunities to develop your skills and experience with the support of an experienced department and wider service. Your Continued Professional Development is supported.
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.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate and highly motivated psychologist to join our teams, in a challenging but rewarding role, to make a difference to the lives of our young people.
Therefore applicants will need to:
Have excellent interpersonal skills
The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Be committed to providing the highest standards of care through excellent communication, motivation, supervision and role modelling.
Report to the Operational Lead and Psychology Lead. The post holder will work with multidisciplinary teams that value psychological approaches. You will provide comprehensive psychological assessments, formulations and interventions. As part of the role, you will also contribute to the development and evaluation of specialist treatment programmes, tailored to the complex mental health and offending behaviour needs of this population. You will also use and develop your skills in the supervision of others undertaking psychological interventions. You will also have opportunities in research and evaluation, service improvement, consultation and training.
Candidates must be registered with the HCPC as a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist.
However, candidates who are close to qualification and eligibility to apply for HCPC registration are welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see specification and job description for full details, and contact the Operational Lead for more details if required.
To provide psychological provision at Clayfields House (Children’s Secure Home) to help support Psychological Assessment, Formulation, Therapeutic Intervention and Evaluation of the young people living at Clayfields House. This will involve some direct 1-1 working with the young people who are aged 10 to 18 years, living at Clayfields House on remand, sentenced or placed on welfare grounds. It will also involve supporting the networks around the young people to understand and care for the young people; supporting care and education staff via reflective practice, formulation meetings, consultation and providing training.
To work as part of the multidisciplinary Health team at Clayfields House alongside a senior Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Nurse, Speech & Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Consultant Psychiatrist, Substance Misuse Nurse and Physical Health Nurses.
The post holder will be involved in the continued embedding of the ‘Secure Stairs Framework’ into Clayfields House. This is a National Framework to support the development and maintenance of trauma informed secure settings for Young People. They will therefore use knowledge of Attachment Theory and Developmental Trauma to inform their practice.
The post will undertake research and audit to support the service development plan and targets for improved quality of care. The post will also advise, and support research activity undertaken within the MDT.
In conjunction with the MDT and where indicated, this post will support the planning of effective transition of young people from Clayfields to community care or other alternative care, through consultation and joint working. The post will consult where appropriate to other agencies on developing multi-agency care programmes to support the high level of need for this complex care group.
Person specification
Qualifications - Academic / Craft / Professional
Essential criteria
- • Post graduate doctorate in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS Or Masters degree in Forensic Psychology approved by the HCPC and then a Doctorate in Forensic Psychology from a HCPC-accredited doctoral programme
- • Current registration with HCPC (or planned if currently on a Training course)
Desirable criteria
- Further relevant pre or post-qualification training. For example: • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy • Attachment Theory • Systemic or Family Therapy • CBT/DBT • CAT, Narrative, CFT, ACT • Psychological models of assessing and treating PTSD e.g. EMDR
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- 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.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties and their families/carers.
- Experience off effective multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working within a secure setting.
- • Experience of assessment and formulation of individuals whose life experiences have been traumatic and/or abusive
- • Experience of Delivering questionnaires/routine outcome measures or standardised psychometric tests (such as the testing of cognition) and analysing these.
- • Experience of dissemination of research findings and report writing
- • Experience of presentations, publications or teaching/training delivery
- • Experience of completing risk assessments
- • Experience of participating in supervision
- • Experience of delivering group or individual work
- • Research and Audit skills to evidence the efficacy of specialist interventions.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- •Have a working understanding of child and adolescent development.
- •Knowledge of psychological theory of attachment and developmental trauma
- • Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to help make sense of a presentation/behaviour.
- • To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner (both written and verbal) including with individuals with cognitive, communication & sensory difficulties;
- • Good organisational skills and an ability to work well to deadlines.
- • Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with regular supervision;
- • Specialist skills in establishing and developing therapeutic relationships with clients with complex clinical presentations.
- • Ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries;
- • Skills in using IT, databases & spreadsheets and statistical analysis;
- • Presentation and teaching skills.
- • Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively; (reflective practice / learning/ safety)
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of child related psychometric tests
- • Knowledge around neurodiversity such as ASD and ADHD.
- • Skills and knowledge in regards to working with individuals with an intellectual disability
- • Research and audit skills. Knowledge of research design and methodology including quantitative and qualitative methods.
Dispositional Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Commitment and enthusiasm;
- • Flexibility to work as and where required
- • Reliability & personal integrity.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joy Mitchell
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01159170010
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