Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS)
Specialist Forensic/Clinical Psychologist
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A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive, creative and highly skilled Specialist Forensic or Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about supporting children and young people in a secure setting.
You will join our fantastic multi-disciplinary team at Millenium Lodge, Secure Children's Home, which will be the new site in 2027, for Lincolnshire Secure Children's Home currently rated Outstanding by both CQC and Ofsted.
The service sits within our Children's and Young Person's Complex Care Service Line, alongside the Harmful Behaviour Service and Complex Needs Service. Our New Secure Children's Home will provide care for up to 28 young people aged 10-18. Many of the young people we support have experienced significant adversity, including trauma, mental health challenges, neurodevelopmental difficulties and risk of harm to themselves or others. You will work closely with our Highly Specialist Forensic Psychologist/Clinical Lead and a range of professionals to create a safe, containing environment and deliver interventions that help young people understand themselves, their mental health and their offending behaviour.
Responsibilities
In this role you will have opportunities to lead on psychological formulations, deliver individual and group interventions, and contribute to staff training and policy development. You will be required to have at least 12-18 months post qualification experience.
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Duties
- Work within the Heath Trust’s and the HCPC’s and the BPS’s professional guidelines
- Liaise and work closely with colleagues and professionals who work internal and external to the Trust and who provide services to children, young people and their carers and families
- Provide complex clinical psychology assessments, formulations and a range of therapeutic interventions for young people resident at Millenium Lodge
- Work with Local Authority staff members to support them in working consistently with the young people and enabling staff to consider the dynamics of a young person’s relationships to reduce escalating behaviours
- Support the provision of psychologically informed working across the healthcare and Local Authority teams by offering group and 1:1 clinical supervision and advice/consultation to the multidisciplinary team (including supervision of trainee psychologists)
- Offer consultation and supervision as required to psychology and non-psychology colleagues across the organisation
- Develop, and deliver, training related to complex trauma to both healthcare and Local Authority staff members
- Use research skills to undertake research and audit activities and assist with projects aimed at developing the service further
- Use Outcome Measures which are used to evidence good practice and help adjust service delivery and developments which consider service user feedback and evaluation
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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!
Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions
- Support and celebration of diversity
- Active staff networks groups
- Affordable and happy living in Lincolnshire
Contact
For further information, please contact Natalie Islip at: natalie.islip@nhs.net
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Lisa De La Perrelle
- Job title: Service Manager
- Email address: lisa.delaperrelle@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01522 535189
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