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Clinical or Forensic Psychologist
| Posting date: | 23 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £50,952.00 to £57,349.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £50952.00 - £57349.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 October 2024 |
| Location: | Hellingly, BN27 4ER |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9354-24-2041 |
Summary
Main responsibilities: To provide direct and indirect specialist clinical intervention for service users at the Hellingly Centre. To undertake and/or contribute to highly complex risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including assessments of individuals who are frequently aggressive. Provide expert advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the service. To provide clinical and professional supervision to psychological professions team members. Scope and Authority: To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways. To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy. To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues. To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate. To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit, and to advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service Key knowledge and skills: Specialist experience gained post-qualification, whilst working as a registered psychologist. However, we would consider applications from newly qualified psychologists on a preceptorship basis, with a development plan to work towards 8a. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients. High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies or a high level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as applied to the client group using this service. Experience of representing psychology/psychological professions within the context of multi-disciplinary care. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust. Please see the job description for full details of duties, responsibilities and requirements. For further information or to talk about the post please call 0300 304 0818 and ask to speak to Jane Roberts, Consultant Forensic Psychologist, or Andy Cook, Consultant Clinical Psychologist (or email jane.roberts@spft.nhs.uk or andy.cook@spft.nhs.uk).