Senior Clinical or Forensic Psychologist - Band 8a Birmingham, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to join the Secure Services for people with Intellectual Disabilities at Brooklands Hospital.
The successful candidate will provide clinical and forensic input into the Male & Female (Low and Medium) Secure Services. They will have post qualification experience of working with forensic populations and/or considerable experience of working with people with Intellectual (learning) disabilities who present considerable risk to others. You will use your psychological skills and experience to provide assessments, individual and group therapies, team formulations, and reflective practice. You will also supervise others (qualified psychologists and non-psychologist s) and be involved in training others, such as ward staff and multidisciplinary colleagues. Training others and contributing to and leading on service development projects and undertaking audit and research is an important part of this role.
All members of the psychology team receive excellent support, good supervision and opportunities for continuing professional development. There would be support and training provided to the post holder to support the development of their forensic assessment skills and/or therapeutic skills in a model applicable to the service user population.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, using complex psychological data gained from a variety of sources.
To ensure the systematic provision of psychological services, including the responsibility to prioritise work appropriately.
To communicate assessment results, formulations, outcome data, and other complex and sensitive information orally and in written form to support the work of multidisciplinary colleagues.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to other professionals and staff contributing to the formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans and management of service users, both within and outside the Trust.
To contribute to the development of services, reviewing service outcomes, designing, and participating in audit, research, and clinical governance initiatives, and working cooperatively with colleagues to achieve service goals and maximise service effectiveness. This will involve communication with a wide range of clinical and managerial colleagues, within and outside the Trust.
To provide supervision to less senior qualified psychology staff, assistant psychologists, volunteers, and other colleagues including facilitators of offender programmes.
To provide clinical placements to doctoral level trainee psychologists.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
The secure service ethos is to help and support people who present considerable risk to others (as well as themselves) to return to a less restrictive environment and/or the community as soon as possible. The contribution of psychological services is highly valued within the teams and service management and is fully integrated within collaborative multi-disciplinary teams. The psychology department at Brooklands is a well-established and supportive service and the successful applicant will receive support to further develop their skills and knowledge, through good quality supervision and training opportunities. The team work from a number of different therapeutic approaches including CBT, CAT, CFT, EMDR and Schema Therapy. We also have a full DBT programme operating successfully, and provide a number of well-established and structured offence group programmes as part of the service user’s comprehensive treatment pathway. Positive Behavioural Support is a key component of our treatment approach and philosophy and the successful candidate will work closely with others on developing new and existing service projects, develop new and existing group programmes and provide support in training others. The service has strong links with local clinical and forensic training doctorate courses.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, using complex psychological data gained from a variety of sources.
To ensure the systematic provision of psychological services, including the responsibility to prioritise work appropriately.
To communicate assessment results, formulations, outcome data, and other complex and sensitive information orally and in written form to support the work of multidisciplinary colleagues.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to other professionals and staff contributing to the formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans and management of service users, both within and outside the Trust.
To contribute to the development of services, reviewing service outcomes, designing, and participating in audit, research, and clinical governance initiatives, and working cooperatively with colleagues to achieve service goals and maximise service effectiveness. This will involve communication with a wide range of clinical and managerial colleagues, within and outside the Trust.
To provide supervision to less senior qualified psychology staff, assistant psychologists, volunteers, and other colleagues including facilitators of offender programmes.
To provide clinical placements to doctoral level trainee psychologists.
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For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
