Clinical/Forensic Psychologist

Job overview

Clinical/Forensic Psychologist

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 1 WTE Band 7 Psychologist role but would consider Band 6 applicants who are nearing qualification. We could consider full-time or part-time applicants. There are opportunities for flexible and hybrid working, although the predominant base for the roles will be at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield and our trust community bases.

Due to several new developments within the service we are looking for enthusiastic clinical or forensic to provide psychological input within a range of 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

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.

It is expected that the interview date will be week commencing  19th May 2025.

Please direct any specific enquiries to: Dr Rebecca Williams, Email: [email protected]; Dr Louise Williams, Email: [email protected]

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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The successful candidate will support the provision of psychological interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team including leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, in addition to contributing to developing research, offering supervision, consultancy training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The use of research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the North London Forensic Service will also be required.

Key Responsibilities

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to detained patients within the inpatient services at the North London Forensic Service (including low and medium secure wards), service users coming up for discharge from secure inpatient services or living in the community thereafter, as required.

The successful candidate will support the provision of psychological interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team including leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, in addition to contributing to developing research, offering supervision, consultancy training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

• The use of research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the North London Forensic Service will also be required.
• To communicate across language and cultural barriers, through appropriate interpreters where necessary, to ensure that highly complex treatments are carried out in a language easily understandable to the service user. To be aware of and promote all anti-discriminatory practice in line with Trust Policy and professional psychology practice.
• To work safely and under guidance in relation to aggression and violence. To minimize risks of physical violence by appropriate planning and taking precautionary measures.