Clinicalforensiccounselling Psychologist Job In Enfield

Job Description

Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Specialist Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

Site Chase Farm Hospital Town Enfield Salary £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 19/06/2024 23:59

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people.We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored.Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where youcan thrive and succeed.

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 and research skills and trauma-informed practice?

The NLFS is recruiting B7Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologists OR Band 6 applicants who arelikely to achieve registration within 6-12 monthsof their start date to provide psychological input within the following pathways:

• Research Team
• Secure inpatient care
• Secure inpatient care with input to theForensic Learning Disability pathway
• Specialist Forensic Community Team

The candidates will support the provision of psychological interventions within an MDT setting. This will include the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and interventions, in addition to contributing to developing research, offering supervision, training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, as well as join the research team to support with the development of research/service evaluations.

It is an exciting time to join NLFS, as we embed trauma-informed and co-produced care across the service and conduct a range of QI and research projects to help our learning and processes. There are a range of training, CPD and research opportunities available for you to develop your skills in this area; we have recently trained staff in Schema-Focused Therapy and EMDR.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a range of assessments and interventions as part of a MDT, leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. The role includes direct clinical work (1:1 and group work) and consultation/training to colleagues and other professionals. The successful candidate will also contribute to the development of research projects and service evaluations in our service.

The ethos of the service is based on recovery and enablement with focus on individual service user needs. 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.

Working for our organisation

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million.

BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS), rated as 'Outstanding' by the CQC. This service treats and cares for people within the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions.

We also provide one of the largest eating disorder services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services and mental health liaison services in North Middlesex University Hospitals Trust.

Our values and quality improvement are at the heart of everything we do, please consider joining us.

We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Due to several new developments within the service we are looking for enthusiasticclinical, forensic, or counselling psychologiststo provide psychological input within the following pathways of the service:

• Research Team - a role which would give the successful applicant the opportunity to develop consultancy, supervision and service development/research skills.
• Secure inpatient care - a role which would suit those interested in developing skills and knowledge to work with individuals who present with complex mental health difficulties and offending histories.
• Specialist Forensic Community Team - a role which would suit those passionate about providing service users with psychological support transitioning from secure forensic services and providing forensic mental health related training and consultation to MDTs and supported accommodation providers in the region, who work closely with our service.
• 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 and expertise regarding 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 and expertise to absorb.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology. Or Masters or doctoral level training in forensic psychology and completion of competencies Or Doctoral level training/BPS Qualification in Counselling Psychology
• Registration with HCPC.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, which can include outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence.
• Experience of working in a forensic setting.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Experience working with service users presenting with psychosis
• Experience working with service users presenting with personality difficulties
• Knowledge of the principles of trauma informed care

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Able to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff.
• Skill in the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working with long term mental health conditions and/or forensic settings.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team.
• Creative in approach as well as reflective about their own practice.
• Able to work autonomously as well as under supervision and with colleagues

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This 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.

Name Dr Filipa Alves-Costa Job title Consultant Psychologist Email address Filipa.Alves-Costa@nhs.net Telephone number 02087024764 Additional information

Sara Boulter

Head of Therapies - Specialist Services, Consultant Clinical psychologist

Email : sara.boulter@nhs.net

Tel : 020 8702 6345