In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care, we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Senior Psychologist to join our forward-thinking, friendly, and expanding Mental Health Inreach Team at HMP Woodhill. We are keen to recruit someone with a passion for working with men in custody, and those who have experienced trauma, adversity, and offending. In our male service, we provide a wide range of therapies (CBT, MBT, EMDR, psychodynamic counselling, arts therapies) and actively work with partners to provide timely and trauma-informed systems of care. You will be helping provide and develop these services at HMP Woodhill. To work as a member of the clinical/service/team, providing a high-quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families, or carers. To support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation, and training. To participate in systemic clinical governance. To offer clinical supervision to assistant, trainee, and more junior psychologists and other staff. To utilise research skills for audit service development and research within the area served by the team/service. To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service to individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways. To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy. To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, and junior psychologists, psychological therapists, or counsellors and other staff as appropriate. By joining CNWL’s Health & Justice Directorate, you will be joining a large department of psychologists and psychological therapists that provide a variety of mental health and OPD services across prisons, the youth estate, secure hospitals, and the community. Our staff are dynamic and welcoming, and the networking and CPD opportunities are central to our services ethos. We have active research forums and promote our services and work through academic and clinical forums. All staff receive regular supervision and are supported with career aspirations and progression. The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and of course patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings. Key Responsibilities To carry out specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological 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 clients, family members, and others involved in the client’s care, in order to reach a psychological formulation of the client’s difficulties. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To provide specialist assessments of clients presenting with cognitive impairment due to a variety of causes or organic conditions, including pre-assessment counselling and neuropsychological and functional assessments, and to be able to adjust psychological interventions to work effectively with people presenting with complex needs due to cognitive impairment and organic disorders. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.