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Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist - Community Adult Mental Health Forensics Service (Band 8c)

Western Health and Social Care Trust

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Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist - Community Adult Mental Health Forensics Service (Band 8c)

Western Health and Social Care Trust

893562

Psychology

Department: Adult Mental Health

Location: Western Trust Area

Contract and Hours: Temporary, Part-time (18.75 hpw)

It is anticipated interviews will be held on 3rd March 2025

 

Job summary

  • To lead the Services in providing community based forensic and psychological therapy services for people with a Mental Health condition who also have forensic needs within WHSCT.
  • To develop, in consultation with the Clinical Director of Psychology and the Assistant Director for Mental Health, a clear vision for the delivery of psychological services to people who have mental health needs along with forensic needs.
  • To ensure delivery of services in partnership with other services and teams within the Trust, other statutory services and 3rd sector services in line with the stepped care approach and Regional Psychological Therapies Strategy, Regional Mental Health Strategy, Bamford Review and the Care Pathway and Model for Forensic Mental Health Services in N Ireland and any other relevant Care Pathways.
  • To offer consultation, supervision and support to others within Mental Health services in the delivery of psychological services to people with forensic needs.
  • To develop collaborative models of working within Adult Mental Health Service to ensure that clients in those services can access the most appropriate service.
  • To take clinical lead for the services for people who have forensic needs within Mental Health services and provide clinical and managerial supervision (as appropriate) to others working within these services.
  • To provide a qualified, highly specialist psychological therapy service to adults with a Mental Health need and who also who have Forensic needs, throughout the Trust.
  • To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service, and to ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all other professionals within the service for which the postholder has a designated professional responsibility, including clear systems for recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs across the service.
  • As a major requirement of the job, to act as a highly specialist resource to the wider professional community and to carry out audit, policy and service development and research activities and/or programmes

Main responsibilities

  • To ensure that the Mental Health Community Treatment Services delivers services in keeping with the Regional Policy direction in particular in line with the Regional Psychological Therapies Strategy, Regional Mental Health Strategy, Bamford Review and the Care Pathway and Model for Forensic Mental Health in N Ireland.
  • Services should be provided within a stepped care model with close liaison and support offered by the Mental Health Community Treatment Services across all steps of the stepped care pathway.
  • To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Mental Health Community Treatment Services, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
  • To work in partnership with the range of Mental Health teams and other providers across the stepped care pathway in order to support and enhance the ability of other parts of the pathway to deliver psychologically minded services.
  • To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems or forensic needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
  • To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams and employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
  • To make highly skilled evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which may have shaped the individual, family or group.
  • To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
  • To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, forensic, neuropsychological and neurobehavioural advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.

 

For more details view the full job description in the Additional Information section below.

Temporary

Part Time

8c

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Western Health and Social Care Trust

Northern Ireland


The Trust is an equal opportunities employer
Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist - Community Adult Mental Health Forensics Service (Band 8c)

Western Health and Social Care Trust


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