# Clinical or Forensic Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-or-forensic-psychologist/e3ede689-9c9b-4fd0-92f7-1b90b6211fbf - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-or-forensic-psychologist/e3ede689-9c9b-4fd0-92f7-1b90b6211fbf.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Nottingham - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Salary:** £49,387 - £64,750 Per Annum with high secure lead - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 26.25 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-24T09:11:32.998Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/woodbeck/Nottinghamshire_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Forensic_Psychology/Clinical_Forensic_Psychology-v8105000 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8105000?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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. ### Main duties of the job Clinical or Work Practice - 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 - bservations 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. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities 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. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Record of clinical effectiveness in a forensic service. - High level of ability to plan and organise clinical service provision to meet service demands. - Proven ability to work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams - Research skills - IT literacy - Knowledge of legal system and mental health act - Broad knowledge of psychosocial models of assessment, formulation and intervention relevant to forensic mental health - Presentation and teaching skils - Groupwork skills **Desirable** - Experience of dissemination of research/service evaluation eg. publications. ### shortlisting **Essential** - Qualifications; MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology. Must be HCPC registered and able to demonstrate eligibility for chartered status as a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist. - Further Training; Advanced knowledge, experience, and expertise in at least one specialist area of clinical/forensic practice gained through specialist training and supervised practice (e.g., psychotherapy, neuropsychology, risk assessment, clinical and forensic supervision). Advanced knowledge, experience, and expertise in men’s mental health services and systems gained through specialist training and supervised practice. - Work Experience; Experience of working effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. Clinical experience developing expertise in forensic clinical psychology practice, specifically applied to psychosis and/or complex trauma. Experience of facilitation of ward and/or multi-disciplinary based supervision groups and/or reflective spaces. - MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology. Must be HCPC registered and able to demonstrate eligibility for chartered status as a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist. **Desirable** - Evidence of training in areas relevant to men’s forensic mental health services e.g., trauma informed care, CBTp, CBTt, Schema Therapy, EMDR. - Experience of training and supervision of staff and other psychologists. ### Dispositional attributes **Essential** - Good communication skills - Commitment and enthusiasm - Reliable and personal integrity ## Documents - [about the trust (pdf, 6.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2983) - [job description (pdf, 629.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10399525) - [colleague benefits (pdf, 16.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2913) - [person specification (pdf, 342.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10399526) - [about nottinghamshire healthcare (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2079) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.