Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (Working for equivalent of 3 days a week over a 6 month period.)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Some flexibility in working hours, predominately weekdays 9-5pm)
- Job ref
- 338-7304823-25
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Humber Centre for Forensic Psychiatry
- Town
- Hull
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 Per annum, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principle Forensic/Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
A great opportunity has arisen for a part-time six month fixed-term position within the forensic in-patient psychology team.
The role is working within secure care delivering assessment, formulation and intervention for adults with complex needs, as well as working alongside other professionals to deliver quality, trauma informed care.
The successful candidate will be based at the Humber Centre near Hull, working in a medium to low secure forensic mental health setting with a range of mental health presentations and risk related behaviours.
You will join a friendly and approachable team of clinical and forensic psychologists, trainees and assistant psychologists. You will also be part of the broader Forensic Division Psychology Team.
- The successful candidate will be involved in assessment, formulation and intervention for individuals with a range of mental health and forensic needs within medium and low security settings.
- Experience working with complex clients and forensic backgrounds is essential. Skills and experience in interventions such as DBT, EMDR, CAT, CBT, CFT and Schema Therapy are all welcomed.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve opportunities to consult with multidisciplinary teams and contribute to service projects and development. There may also be the opportunity to work alongside social services to complete assessments regarding risk to children.
This temporary position will require the individual to be confident to work autonomously whilst enjoying working with teams through contributing to the psychology team and working into multi-disciplinary teams.
There is also opportunity to be involved in training and possible supervision provision.
This challenging yet highly rewarding work requires someone with motivation and enthusiasm for working in this setting.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical area
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities etc.)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring and teaching
- Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carolyn Scott
- Job title
- Interim Lead Psychologist for Forensic Division
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 336219
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