Main area Clinical or Forensic Psychology Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract 12 months (fixed term to cover maternity leave) Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 186-443-26-FS
Employer Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Rampton Hospital, Town woodbeck Salary £49,387 – £64,750 Per Annum (pro rata for part time) with high secure lead Salary period Yearly Closing 07/07/2026 23:59
Clinical or Forensic Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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, and 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, and 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 complex mental health difficulties. The post-holder will be capable of conducting projects and working largely independently, with only general briefings and working directly to Trust senior managers.
Main duties of the job
- Provide specialist psychological assessments to service users within the Mental Health Service, using a comprehensive range of methods 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.
- 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 and employing evidence‑based methods.
- Implement a range of psychological interventions, both individual and group, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose difficulties are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- Liaise closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team, giving authoritative specialist advice on psychological aspects of care, and contributing to formulation, diagnosis and treatment planning.
Person specification
- Qualifications: MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology; HCPC registered and eligible 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.
- 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 facilitating ward and/or multidisciplinary based supervision groups and/or reflective spaces.
- Training in areas relevant to men’s forensic mental health services, including trauma‑informed care, CBTp, CBTt, Schema Therapy, EMDR.
- Experience of training and supervision of staff and other psychologists.
EEO Statement
The Trust believes in treating everyone with dignity and respect and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. We guarantee an interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum essential criteria.
Additional Information
- We reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants.
- Applicants may be required to pay for their DBS check. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), which will be deducted from salary over the first two months of employment.
- Applicants are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.
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