This is an exciting time for the National Learning Disability Service and we are seeking to strengthen our service by the appointment of a Consultant Clinical or Forensic Psychologist. The postholder in conjunction with a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and specialist MDT will contribute to the leadership, delivery and evaluation of an Outreach Service. The service will provide support to clinical teams and services in managing their patient whilst awaiting admission to the National Men's Learning Disability's Service and/or to support management outside of High Security where appropriate to ensure least restrictive practice. The service will also provide support to services that have high secure Learning Disability Men that have progressed from Rampton. Core to this role will be effective evaluation of the service to support its evolvement.

The Outreach Service will provide support to a range of teams, primarily those whose patient is awaiting admission, to support management in least restrictive environment but also to patients on trial leave and who have progressed form Rampton and those patients presenting with behaviours that challenge but who do not meet the threshold for admission to the National Mens LD Service.

The successful candidate will be part of a large and respected Psychology Service at Rampton Hospital. The Psychology Service is well represented in multi-professional networks both locally and nationally.

Main duties of the job

The Post-holder will have a lead role as a Consultant Clinical/Forensic Psychologist in the development, maintenance and ongoing evaluation of the National Learning Disability Outreach Service.

The primary objective of the high secure National Learning Disability Outreach Service is to support clinical teams/services in the management/treatment of their patient while waiting for admission to the National Learning Disability Service. This support will take the form of experienced senior National Learning Disability Service clinicians visiting the service to discuss the risk and clinical needs of the patient and to offer advice regarding management. It will also involve hosting visits from other services so that they can observe in situ procedures undertaken within the National Learning Disability Service. Such consultation will also provide the patient's clinical team with governance and assurance about the management and treatment interventions that they are employing. Advice will also be given around the physical and relational management of patients and will work in consultation with the HOPEs initiative as required. The National Learning Disability Outreach Service will provide specialist support and guidance to teams.

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Job description
Job responsibilities

The National Mens Learning Disability Service is a purpose-built 52 bedded Mens unit on the Rampton Hospital site. The service consists of four clinical units for Men datained under the Mental Health Act (1983). Each unit has an identified specialism to support working with a range of complex needs and includes a specialist autism unit and Therapeutic Community.

The Outreach service will be part of the National Learning Disability Service and will be based at Rampton.

• To contribute to ongoing needs analysis with respect to patients who have been assessed as needing admission to the high secure National Learning Disability Service, whilst remaining on the waiting list.
• To contribute to ongoing service wide needs analysis with respect to managing the waiting list, and service bed management.
• To provide highly specialist psychological advice and consultation to the clinical teams of patients on the waiting list, which might include interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved in the patients care.
• To provide highly specialist support and advice for clinical teams for patients on trial leave where the placement is at risk of possibly breaking down.
• To formulate and advise on plans for the management of complex mental health problems, and highly challenging behaviours utilizing a range of clinical models.
• To identify the presenting risk/s (to self and others) and the clinical needs of patients who are presenting with acute mental health problems, and distress whilst residing in conditions of lesser security.
• To offer consultation and supportive advice to clinical teams where patients are presenting with highly challenging behaviours, and/or are presenting with serious risk behaviours but do not reach the threshold for referral to high secure care.
• To identify whether safe and therapeutic use of restrictive interventions such as strong clothing, mechanical restraint, seclusion and long term segregation would be beneficial to manage risk/s.
• To provide advice on the therapeutic use of restrictive interventions such as strong clothing, mechanical restraint, seclusion and long term segregation.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, formulation and offering of support in relation to patients presenting with acute distress and grave and immediate risk/s.
• To liaise closely with a wide range of multidisciplinary teams, in a range of secure settings, providing verbal and written support and advice.
• To travel to units within the UK on a weekly basis, to meet with multidisciplinary teams and patients as required.
• To communicate in a skilled, effective and sensitive manner consultation and supportive advice to multidisciplinary teams, and to monitor patients progress whilst awaiting a high secure bed.
• To facilitate visits from clinicians from a range of medium secure settings to share learning and experience to reduce presenting risk/s, increase quality of life and aid future patient placement.

Teaching, Training & Supervision

• To receive regular clinical supervision from a senior psychologist and, where appropriate, other professional colleagues.
• To provide highly specialised information and guidance about the management of patients presenting with acute emotional distress, and high risk behaviours.
• To provide advice around the use of restrictive interventions such as strong clothing, mechanical restraint, seclusion and long term segregation.

Research & Service Evaluation

• To evaluate the effectiveness of the Outreach Service, through the audit of waiting times, successful trial leaves and feedback from referral teams and service users.
• To maintain a database of referrals, visits, and waiting times. Providing regular feedback to the Clinical Director.

Policies & Procedures

• The duties and responsibilities of this post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies, procedures and practices of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and with the Code of Conduct and Guidance on Professional Practice issued by the British Psychological Society. It is the Post-holders responsibility to ensure that they keep up-to-date with these policies and other policy documents.
• Works in accordance with Forensic Directorate and Rampton Hospital procedures, in particular security and health and safety.
• Applies equal opportunities principles at all times and participates in training activities and Individual Performance and Development Reviews

Management, Recruitment & Service Development

• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and attendance at service development meetings, as directed by the Project Lead and Clinical Director.
• To advise the Clinical Director on those aspects of the service where psychological or organisational matters need addressing.

Health and Safety

To work within the provisions of the Trusts Health and Safety Policy.

General Duties

• To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the Project Lead and Clinical Director
• To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the fields of clinical and forensic psychology and related disciplines.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording, and report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance, in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific patient group and mental health.
• To ensure that in all aspects of professional activity (e.g. communication with patients, relatives, and colleagues as well as in the assessment, development/ delivery of interventions) issues of diversity such as race, culture, identity, gender, transgender, sexual orientation and sexuality are sensitively considered and incorporated to reflect individual differences appropriately.
• To ensure that service users are appropriately consulted about relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment enabling such views to be assimilated and incorporated into continued service development.

Person Specification
Qualifications - Academic / Craft / Professional
Essential

• Good honours degree in psychology as accredited by the British Psychology Society.
• MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology.
• Registered Clinical or Forensic Psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Training
Essential

• Good honours degree in psychology as accredited by the British Psychology Society.
• MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology.
• Registered Clinical or Forensic Psychologist with HCPC
• Training includes models of psychopathology, psychometric assessment, developmental psychology through the life span and two or more distinct approaches to therapeutic intervention.

Desirable

• Post qualification training in therapeutic approaches relevant to Male Learning Disability patients in secure mental health and/or secure learning disability settings.

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified psychologist across High, Medium and Low secure specialist mental health services for Male Learning Disability working withpatients who present with severe problems and complex needs including trauma and self and otherinjury .
• As a qualified psychologist experience of effective leadership and close collaboration within multi-disciplinary clinical teams.
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility, under supervision, for psychological care and treatment in the context of multidisciplinary care plans.
• Experience of having worked as a qualified psychologist in Learning Disability services at a high secure and a less lower secure facility.
• Experience of working as a qualified psychologist with restrictive interventions such as mechanical restraint and seclusion.
• Can demonstrate as a qualified psychologist clinical effectiveness in positively infl
  
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