Part-Time Senior Clinical​/Forensic Psychologist

Part-Time Senior Clinical/Forensic Psychologist

This part-time Senior Clinical/Forensic Psychologist role at Thornford Park Hospital offers a rewarding career opportunity to make a real difference in people's lives. You will be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, responsible for delivering strategic and clinical care, leading the specialized psychological programme, and providing supervision and training to your peers. With a strong emphasis on professional development and excellent benefits, this role promises both personal growth and job satisfaction.

As a Senior Clinical/Forensic Psychologist, you will be responsible for a designated caseload, assessing service users with complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatment within the mental health care services. You will be autonomous in managing your own caseload, attending regular clinical and service development meetings, and providing both individual and group work to the patients. Additionally, you will be responsible for maintaining monthly clinical supervision, providing clinical supervision to nursing and therapy staff, and contributing to professional development, teaching, audit, and research within the team.

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care, a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Are you an experienced Senior Clinical Psychologist looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference and changes lives for the better? Join the team at Thornford Park as a Senior Clinical/Forensic Psychologist working 30 hours a week and enjoy support from a regional network of healthcare professionals. You will be working at Thornford Park, and will provide the Ward Psychologist role across the male and female PICU’s.

There is a strong emphasis on teamwork and CPD at Thornford Park, where you will have continuous access to a range of training opportunities to move your career forward.

What you will be doing Reporting to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, you will be responsible for assisting in the delivery of delivering strategic and clinical strategies to grow and further develop the care pathway through specialist psychological advice and consultations. You will lead and oversee the specialised psychological programme and the transdisciplinary team where you will provide supervision and training to your peers to ensure they understand the concepts and principles underpinning the framework and the specialised skills required to work successfully within this service model.

You will have experience and knowledge in carrying a designated caseload, including assessing service users with complex needs, and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatment within mental health care services.

We value your professional growth and offer numerous career development opportunities. Our extensive range of courses is designed to help you grow and succeed in your career.

It's a career that brings pride and fulfilment a true representation of what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

As a Senior Clinical/Forensic Psychologist you will be:

• Autonomous in managing your own caseload, which will involve working with complex service-users.
• Attending regular clinical and service development meetings, such as MDT’s, CPA’s, referrals, and other hospital-wide meetings
• An integral part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team on the two PICU’s
• Providing both long & short-term work, which includes being able to undertake clinical assessments to determine clinical needs & treatment plans.
• Providing both individual and group work to the patients.
• Maintaining monthly clinical supervision as well as regular line-management supervision
• Providing clinical supervision to nursing…