Clinical or Forensic Psychologist
To provide a comprehensive, highly specialist clinical and forensic psychology service within the Mental Health Service. To provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention as well as offering advice and consultation regarding service users’ psychological care to other members of the clinical team. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within Rampton Hospital.
The post\-holder will provide a highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy service to male service users within the Mental Health Service. The post\-holder will offer advice and consultation on psychological care to non\-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the Hospital’s policies, procedures and service priorities.
The post\-holder will participate fully in multidisciplinary clinical teams, at times leading them. They will develop knowledge and skills in general aspects of forensic clinical psychology and the assessment and treatment of service users who are legally detained as ‘mentally disordered’ and experience a range of complex mental health difficulties. The post\-holder will be capable of conducting projects, working largely independently, with only general briefings and working directly to Trust senior managers.
Clinical or Work Practice
- To provide specialist psychological assessments
based upon the appropriate use, interpretation
and integration of complex data from a variety of
sources including psychological and
neuropsychological tests, self\-report measures,
rating scales, direct and indirect structured
observations and semi\-structured interviews with
service users and others involved in the service
user’s care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user’s difficulties, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, individual and group, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose difficulties are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To liaise closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team, giving authoritative specialist advice on psychological aspects of care, contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment planning.
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 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.
As detailed above and in job description. In summary
- To provide specialist psychological assessments to service users within the Mental Health Service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self\-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi\-structured interviews with service users and others involved in the service user’s care.
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