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Qualified Psychologist 7/8a | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £57,349 pro rata for part time |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 August 2024 |
| Location: | Retford, DN22 0PD |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6436981/186-874-24-FS |
Summary
This is an exciting role for an early career or well established clinical or forensic psychologist looking to specialise in an incredibly niche and emerging field. The role is part of the National Deaf Services in reach provision and you will be involved in providing psychological support and interventions into an established Prison in reach programme. You will be part of the National Deaf service and wider Rampton psychology team which comprises two other national services, namely the National Learning Disability and National Women's Service as well as the regional Men's Personality Service and Mental Health services.
The Post-holder will provide a highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy service to the Hospital and specifically to the National High Secure Deaf Service and prison in-reach service. The NHSDS is a 10 bedded unit providing mental health care to men with a mental disorder and who are deaf. The role will also involve working into a range of Prison establishments providing psychological input as required.
The post holder will provide a specialist psychological assessment and therapy service to ward clinical teams within the Hospital. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy and will offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and Rampton Hospital’s policies, procedures and service priorities.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
This post offers an exciting opportunity to join the team providing high quality clinical input to the National Service for the treatment of Deaf mentally disordered patients in a high secure setting, as well as delivering psychological in-reach work to Deaf individuals in the Prison system. This will involve providing high quality assessment and intervention on an individual and group basis to a ten bedded ward for Deaf mentally disordered male patients at Rampton; as well as providing psychological interventions to those referred via the Prison in-reach team.
Opportunities for training, supervision and support will be provided to consolidate clinical skills and to develop professional practice.
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Jul 2024
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