Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (1.0)
- Job ref
- 363-FOR7212709
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Howard Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £82,462 - £93,773 per annum Inc HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Band 8c
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
Main duties of the job
1,Offer clinical leadership and line management to Psychologists and other Psychological Professionals to ensure a high standard of psychological and therapeutic input to service users and carers in the medium secure service.
2. Work with other Consultant Psychologists, Heads of Departments and senior leaders in the Forensic Directorate and across ELFT to embed psychological thinking and practice across the work of the organisation, including working with staff from other disciplines, carer and peer support workers and external partners and stakeholders.
3. To act as principal advocate for and representative of Psychological professions on service and Trust wide operational/working groups, to undertake tasks arising from the groups’ work, and to be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective on all aspects of service development to members of the team or group
4. Manage budgets and other resources to provide an equitable Psychological Therapies service, which takes into account the impact of structural inequalities on service users’ experience of health and justice services.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent qualification as accredited by the BPS giving eligibility for chartered status
- Post qualification training in a relevant area of psychological practice or therapy modality
- Evidence of continuing professional development in accordance with BPS recommendations
- Formal training in leadership and healthcare management
Desirable criteria
- Training in Quality Improvement methodology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post qualification experience in adult mental health, including experience at a senior level in forensic, adult mental health, or psychiatric rehabilitation services
- Substantial post qualification experience of providing specialist psychological assessments and treatment interventions to service users with complex problems, including psychosis, personality disorder, substance misuse and offending behaviour
- Experience in a range of care settings including medium secure, outpatient and/or community
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified psychological therapies staff, including psychologists
- Experience of recruitment and staff appraisal
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment both within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan and for service users managed by psychologically based care plans
- Experience of representing psychology in groups and teams both within the service and outside it
- Experience of heading/leading a service or a section of a service
- Experience of supporting teams through the delivery of reflective practice and other initiatives aimed at supporting staff.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of co-production of training and services with carers and service users
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study, or experience – or a combination of these, demonstrated by certification, documented supervision logs, management appraisal documentation and/or assessment at interview
- Skills in planning and delivering services in own specialist area including long term planning
- Ability to work in a team and provide clinical leadership. Excellent interpersonal, communication and time management skills
- Staff management and appraisal skills
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and develop formulations on which to base choice of treatment.
- Knowledge of the evidence based literature for effective interventions for a forensic mental health service user group.
- Knowledge of the political, cultural and legal context in which forensic psychology services are provided
Desirable criteria
- Highly developed skills in risk assessment
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
- Sunita Arjune
- Job title
- Deputy Service Director- Forensic Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07342715620
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