Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who values MDT working and has a passion for improving the lives of forensic people with LDA.
We are looking for either a secondment or fixed term contract to cover the B8b highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist within the Transforming Care (TC) Community Forensic Team (CFT). This post will run for 11 months from December 2024 until November 2025.
This post is open to both full or part time hours. Should this be a secondment opportunity, we can consider this being a split post across both the current team and CFT, if this would work for the current teams functioning.
The purpose of this role is to provide a Clinical/Forensic Psychology provision to individuals with Intellectual Disability and/or who fit the Transforming Care Programme as part of the Community Forensic Team. You must have specialist forensic and clinical training and experience, including with intellectual disability and/or autism.
Please read the person specification and job description for full details of this post. Please contact Paul Bates for further clarification paul.bates6@nhs.net

Complete comprehensive risk assessments and formulations.
Provide psychological intervention to individuals with an intellectual disability and/ or autism.
To ensure there is provision of clinical supervision, clinical leadership and reflective practice within the team.
Provide liaison and consultation to other LPFT teams and/ or other teams who work with our patient group.
To work as part of the MDT to reduce the risk of admission for individuals on the TC cohort.
To develop and provide training to healthcare providers who support our patient group.
To support the team manager by leading on service development and systematic provision planning from a psychological perspective, specifically in relation to the service for forensic clients with intellectual disability and/or autism.
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 a range 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 . Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more .
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
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
• Childcare Vouchers
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants