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Principal Forensic/Clinical Psychologist | 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,337 - £74,415 Per annum (pro-rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 December 2024 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 8JL |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6724322/306-BEH-2440 |
Summary
The North London Forensic Service (NLFS) is currently recruiting Clinical or Forensic Psychologists to our Specialist Community Forensic Team. It is an exciting time to join our service as we continue to embed and develop our community forensic provision, alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues and experts by experience.
NLFS benefits from a large psychology team with a wealth of experience and expertise to absorb. A range of training and CPD opportunities are available, as well as the possibility of contributing within active Research and Quality Improvement Forums.
This role would suit someone with an established career within forensic mental health, looking to develop their leadership skills further and to hold responsibility as the Psychology Lead for the Choices Community Partnership: Specialist Community Forensic Team.
Up to 0.8 WTE Band 8b Clinical/Forensic Psychologist post is available, within the Choices Community Partnership: Specialist Community Forensic Team (CCP: SCFT), with opportunities for flexible and hybrid working. This stream of the SCFT service works with predominantly non-restricted patients who are leaving/have left Forensic Mental Health secure inpatient wards. The predominant base for the roles will be at the Chase Farm Hospital site in Enfield, though travel within community locations within boroughs will be required. The boroughs covered are Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden and Islington.
The post holder will be required to offer an autonomous psychological service, including a range of psychological assessments and interventions, consultation and training as part of a multidisciplinary team within the service. They will also be required to support more junior psychology colleagues and to be involved in service development. An understanding of forensic risk assessment, high level communication skills and an ability to engage well with and convey complex or sensitive information to service users, colleagues and external agencies is essential.
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
To provide a qualified specialist clinical and forensic psychology service to patients under the care of NLFS providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.To work with the Consultant Psychology Lead for SCFT to deliver psychology leadership within the Choices Community Partnership stream of the Specialist Community Forensic team, supporting the continued development of the interface between inpatient and outpatient forensic mental health services with respect to psychology provision. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service in order to evaluate the service and provide evidence for further service development.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Nov 2024