Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT) psychology

Exciting new role for a Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist in our Specialist Community Forensic Team covering Oxfordshire! Do you want to work with forensic service users - to help reduce the length of their admissions and support them to successfully transition into the community? Are you creative and passionate about service development and trauma-informed care? Do you enjoy multiagency and multidisciplinary working? If so, this job might just be for you! Our service users have complex mental health difficulties, often including severe and enduring mental health problems and trauma histories, as well as risk histories. Transitions are often a time of anxiety for most of us, but particularly so for our service users who often have complex attachment needs and may have spent a significant length of time in secure care. The Specialist Community Forensic Team aims to provide intensive in-reach support to inpatients to help them to prepare for and navigate their discharges and safely settle into life in the community. We also seek to provide support to other services, such as housing providers and local Adult Mental Health Teams, so that our service users can increasingly access non-forensic provision and ultimately transition into primary or secondary care services., The role includes supporting the MDT with developing psychological formulations and risk formulations, contributing to needs assessments, providing consultations and offering advice to other professionals/agencies/services, designing and delivering training, offering supervision, joint working, and direct therapeutic interventions with service users. The role involves a lot of interfacing with other teams, agencies and services. It is an exciting and varied position with lots of scope for creativity., The Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT) psychology role is varied and involves a combination of direct work with forensic service users and indirect work with teams/services with the aim of ensuring psychological thinking is integral to SCFT patient care. As a clinical, forensic or counselling psychologist holding doctoral level professional qualifications, the postholder will provide a highly specialist, multilevel clinical service that is cost-effective, culturally appropriate and based on best clinical and professional practice and that meets Trust and Divisional objectives, national strategic, and policy guidelines, commissioner requirements and user and carer needs and expectations. The aims are to help understand, prevent and ameliorate psychological distress and disorder, improve the mental health and well-being of users of the forensic service and reduce and manage risk. The role involves identifying service users who might benefit from further psychological work, conducting comprehensive assessments of personality, emotional well-being and risk, develop and share case formulations (including risk formulations), and delivering psychological interventions to enhance psychological well-being and reduce risk. The role will also involve a significant amount of indirect work, including providing supervision, training, consultancy and joint working opportunities for MDT colleagues and other agencies, in order to develop the skills and competencies of MDT colleagues and ensure interventions and plans are formulation driven and effective. We are committed to becoming a trauma-informed service which focuses on being needs-led and service user centred, with an acknowledgement that transitions are an incredibly challenging time for many service users. The postholder will play an integral part in ensuring trauma-informed care is at the heart of the SCFTs work.,

• Post qualification training in specialist area of clinical work, relevant to a forensic population.
  
  Well developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical, counselling or forensic psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training., Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific 'difficult to treat' groups (e.g. personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)., Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic psychology., Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated or technical; extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient; or that is extremely contentious or challenging.
  
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As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team