Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide direct psychological care (assessment and intervention) and support the delivery of psychologically informed care by all disciplines within the service.
2. To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions.
3. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, including taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans with input from clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
4. To provide culturally appropriate psychological therapy interventions with service users, carers or families of referred clients when required.
5. To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
* Proof of address documentation
* Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
* 5 years address history will be needed.
* Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
* Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* Additional training in neuropsychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with a relevant client group.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services.
* Experience in working in Forensic or Prison services.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
* Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the professions of psychological therapies based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
Desirable criteria
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. severely challenging behaviours etc.).
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.
Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process. We also discourage overuse of AI during the application process because this can negatively impact the quality of your application and may hinder your chances of being shortlisted. Thank you.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* JD & PS (PDF, 328.4KB)
* Important Additional Information For Candidates (please read carefully) (PDF, 160.6KB)
* Privacy Notice for Staff (PDF, 268.6KB)
* Staff Benefits (PDF, 2.5MB)
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