About the East London Community Forensic Service (ELCFS)
The East London Community Forensic Service (ELCFS) is seeking a Senior Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist to join our multidisciplinary team. The ELCFS was commissioned following the successful pilot of the Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT) model in East London. We offer support for service users as they leave the inpatient Forensic Directorate to reintegrate and re-establish lives in the community. Borough based multidisciplinary teams include RCs, Social Workers, CPNs, Psychologists, OTs, Family Therapists, Arts Therapists, Drugs and Alcohol Practitioners, Peer Support Workers and Carer Peer Support Workers.
Aims
The overarching aims of the ELCFS are 1. to provide inreach support to help service users move safely towards discharge and so reduce length of stay in secure care, and 2. to provide enhanced support in the community, to promote sustained recovery and quality of life in the community, reducing recalls to hospital.
Model Components
* Developing service user skills
* Support in accommodation
* Accessing education and employment
* Addressing substance misuse
* Access to psychological and recovery focused therapies
* Working with carers
* Peer mentorship
* Development of care pathways and system relationships
There is a strong focus on service user involvement and collaboration with community organisations. In addition to direct psychological intervention, both individual and group, the role also involves a significant amount of MDT working, including leading on psychological formulation and risk meetings.
Responsibilities
Band 8a Psychologists across the service are responsible for the supervision and line management of qualified psychologists, other therapists in the team, as well as peer support workers, trainees and students from training courses with established links to the Forensic Directorate. Psychologists are involved in service development and take up strategic roles in relation to service objective as required. Psychologists will be required to utilise research skills in audit and engage in other research and development activities. There are teaching and training opportunities and established links with University courses across London.
Mission, Vision and Values
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive.
We are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
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