Clinical Psychologist/Forensic Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

Are you looking for somewhere to establish your career in Forensic Mental Health and care provision or perhaps looking for a change? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your clinical skills and trauma-informed practice? The North London Forensic Service is recruiting Clinical or Forensic Psychologists to join us.

We have funding for a full-time WTE Band 7 Psychologists. There are opportunities for flexible working, although the predominant base for the roles will be at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield and Avesbury House in Edmonton.

Due to several new developments within the service we are looking for an enthusiastic clinical or forensic to provide psychological input within a the medium and low secure pathways.

The forensic service is a large service, covering inpatients (Medium, Low and Learning Disability wards) as well as community services across 5 boroughs (Enfield, Barnet, Haringey, Islington and Camden).

The successful candidates will support the provision of psychological interventions within a multidisciplinary team setting, leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, offering supervision, training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

*Please also see the attached Job Description for further details.

The post holder would provide a range of assessments and interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role includes direct clinical work, as well as consultation and training to colleagues and other professionals.

The ethos of the service is based on recovery and enablement. These posts require a high level of written and verbal communication skills, as well as an ability to engage well with agencies, colleagues, and service users, often conveying complex or sensitive information. The roles would also include supervision of more junior psychological staff.

This role would be a good fit for you if:

• You like to work with individuals who have experienced trauma and have an interest in applying trauma informed principles in practice.
• You like to offer specialist consultation in the treatment and understanding of highly complex cases that pose a risk to self and others.
• You like clinical autonomy, but also to work well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• You are looking for somewhere to expand the depth of your experience in mental health, trauma-informed practices and research.
• You are seeking to work in a large psychology team with a wealth of experience.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

*Please also see the attached Job Description for further details.

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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 clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, 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 evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group (including in-patient settings
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.