Practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Are you an experienced psychologist seeking a varied and rewarding role across forensic and community mental health services? We are recruiting a 0.7 WTE (26.25 hours) Band 8a Forensic, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in North Lincolnshire, combining:
- 0.4 WTE (15 hours) – Specialist Community Forensic Team
- 0.3 WTE (11.25 hours) – Primary Care Mental Health pathway
This role offers a unique combination of specialist forensic work and direct psychological therapy. Within the forensic service, you will be a key member of the leadership team, contributing to risk formulation, multi-agency working, and service development. Alongside this, you will deliver formulation-driven therapy for people with complex trauma and emotional needs within community pathways. At RDaSH, our 28 Promises underpin our work, with a strong focus on compassion, collaboration and quality. This role supports our commitment to community partnership and co-produced care, working closely with service users, carers and local organisations.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention
- Deliver risk assessment and management across forensic and community settings
- Act as a senior clinician within the forensic team, contributing to leadership and service development
- Offer consultation, advice and supervision to MDT colleagues and partner agencies
- Deliver evidence-based psychological therapies for complex trauma presentations
- Contribute to MDT formulation and reflective practice
- Work collaboratively with service users, carers and community partners
- Support audit, evaluation and service improvement
- Supervise trainee and assistant psychologists
Working for our organisation
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4,000 colleagues across mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services. The trust values its people and offers professional development opportunities including a learning half-day each month.
Qualifications and knowledge
- Post-graduate doctoral level training or its equivalent in clinical or forensic psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Additional short specialist courses with demonstrable impact on practice
- Clinical supervision training
- Current HCPC registration
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
- Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of psychometric and other objective assessment tools, such as neuro-assessment, as applied in identified clinical area
- Skills in coordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, and application of this to research and development activity within the service area
- Basic IT skills
- Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice
- Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
- Evidence of policy implementation and development
- Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. complex PTSD, personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities etc.)
- Member of a special interest group/network, locally or nationally
Experience
- Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific field where the post is held
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision
- Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
- Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
- Professional networking locally and regionally
- Be able to effectively chair meetings
- Successful completion of preceptorship
- A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/ change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- Ability to work across team/organisation boundaries developing and maintaining multiprofessional and multi-agency partnerships
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Skills
- Effective interpersonal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring and teaching
- Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
- Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
- Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
- Ability to commute between the various sites
- Intense concentration required for clinical interaction
- Frequent exposure to highly emotional or distressing circumstances
- Some exposure to hazards e.g. verbal aggression, risk of physical aggression, bodily fluids
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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