Forensic Psychologist

Description:

53 bed hospital in the Borough of Enfield and is situated with very good transport links. The site provides services in both a forensic setting (male medium secure & low secure) and acute services (mixed sex). The hospital can cater for up to 53 patients at one time across the four wards, and the responsibility for staffing the hospital is of vital importance.

Benefits of working on site includes free and secure parking, excellent transport links to Central London (via the Overground which is one minute walk from the site) as well excellent links to the M25 via the A10. Free meals are provided to all staff and you will be entitled to the Hospitals excellent benefits package.

We are looking for a HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist with Forensic experience.

Main Duties:
• To undertake specialist clinical duties contributing to assessment and treatment of patients.

• To provide Psychological Therapies for with personality disorder /mental disorder/intellectual disability and complex trauma, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of patients with complex presentations, formulating plans for treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups.

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients based on appropriate analysis, interpretation, and integration of complex qualitative and quantitative data.

• To administer and interpret assessments of cognitive and emotional functioning as required and to assist the multi-disciplinary team in diagnosis, problem formulation and the planning/development of an appropriate treatment plan.

• To plan, implement, and evaluate individual and group treatments, informed by formulations of patients’ problems based on appropriate theoretical and therapeutic models and best practice guidelines.

Essential
• You will be registered with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist and preferably be BPS Chartered.

• You will have experience of and/or an interest in rehabilitation and the recovery of patients in a forensic setting.

Desirable
• To have clinical supervision training.
• To have training in two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• To have skills in individual and group work and in program planning.
• To have skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment to inform the psychological formulation and intervention.
• To have well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information