About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time (0.5 WTE) 8b Clinical or Forensic Psychologist to join the MHTR service across Lincolnshire.
Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) is a recovery orientated mental health service that delivers high-quality care to reduce re-offending and support rehabilitation by addressing health-related drivers to offending behaviour. It is part of the Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) programme, working with the National Probation Service, NHS England and other external agencies. The MHTR service provides psychological interventions to people in the community who have been charged with an offence that is eligible for a community or suspended sentence. The team is friendly, psychologically minded, and made up of a range of professional disciplines.
The team is based in Lincoln, and the role is county-wide across Lincolnshire.
Main duties of the job
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification which detail the duties of this role.
This post is for 0.5 WTE with some opportunity to manage this within a flexible arrangement.
You will be the Clinical Lead for the team and so the role provides opportunities to develop leadership skills, pathway development work, and supervisory skills as well as your own therapeutic skills.
You will provide clinical oversight and supervision of the MHTR team in providing psychological interventions for individuals referred through the court as part of their community sentence. You will be supported through supervision from a Consultant Psychologist, alongside support from the Service Manager and Team Manager. Still a relatively new service, the post offers a real opportunity for shaping and developing the service.
Partnership working is important to the service. you will be required to engage with and maintain relationships with relevant partner agencies. They will also oversee and evaluate the team's screening, assessment and formulation processes and model(s) of intervention (in accordance with the existing CSTR Programme Operating Framework). The Clinical Lead will also hold a small caseload to provide treatment for more complex cases.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description Job responsibilities
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Honours degree in Psychology (BPS accredited) Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or forensic psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, psychological therapies and life-span developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS Registered with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
Chartered Psychologist Status
Experience Essential
Significant post qualification experience working with adults/children who access a psychological service, including those with trauma histories and those with psychosis Significant experience of supervising professionals who work with offenders or people with mental health problems Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of settings Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with a range of presenting problems from chronic common mental health difficulties to severe mental health problems such as psychosis Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Desirable
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts Experience in specialist assessment of autism and intellectual disability Interest in and knowledge of the criminal justice system Experience of sharing psychological formulation within the MDT and with non-specialists (e.g. police/courts) Experience of working with children and young people Experience of providing clinical supervision to non-psychologists
Skills Essential
Research oPost-graduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology Legislative Knowledge oKnowledge of relevant legislation, particularly criminal justice legislation and mental health legislation, and its implications for clinical practice and professional management of the client group Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS IT skills enabling use of e-mail and input of minimum data set
Desirable
Skilled in generating psychological assessments and formulations that can be understood by the MDT and external agencies such as the Court
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Welton House
Lime Kiln Way
Lincoln
LN2 4WH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)