Principal Occupational Psychologist

4 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Cabinet Office Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 274655**Salary**:

- £50,694 - £57,654**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- CO - Civil Service Human Resources**Type of role**:

- Human Resources
- Psychology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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Location
- Glasgow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Acting as an internal consultancy to all of the Civil Service, we collaborate with government departments, functions and professions to develop and deliver high quality, customer-focused assessment products and solutions grounded in occupational psychology and psychometrics. Our services aim to help identify and develop the best people from all backgrounds, including the Civil Service’s prestigious talent programmes.

We also place ourselves at the forefront of assessment innovation, and are actively creating a growing range of evidence-based psychological assessment tools.

You will be joining a high performing multi-disciplinary team of occupational psychologists, psychometricians and digital experts who use evidence-based practice to put the client and user at the heart of what they do. We are a team that embraces innovation to deliver better results, improved efficiency and added value, with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.

**Job description**:
As Principal Occupational Psychologist you will work closely with the Head of the Occupational Psychology Service to provide thought leadership in the areas of selection and assessment for the Civil Service.

You’ll manage an occupational psychologist and be a resource leader for their work and services. As the team operates on a cost recovery basis your responsibilities will include both ensuring the quality of the occupational psychology services and for achieving the appropriate level of income generation.

You will undertake income generating work personally as well as managing staff.

We are hosting a Q&A event about the role on Friday 24 March at 14:00 UK time. A link to the event will be included in the following LinkedIn post for anyone interested in joining the event.

Key Responsibilities include:
**Psychological Assessment Work**
- Scoping and designing bespoke assessment solutions including: psychometric tests, situational judgement questionnaires and other evidence-based sifting tools, behavioural work sample simulations, assessment centres and interviews
- Using online assessment platforms to implement and support delivery of assessment solutions; working with digital, data assurance and diversity colleagues to ensure new assessments are compliant, fair, and meet customer and user needs
- Managing multiple assessment projects at all stages of the consultancy cycle
- Delivering comprehensive training packages to assessors, interviewers and role players to ensure consistent, standardised and objective assessments
- Working with customers to ensure best practice use of assessments to support client decision making including pass-mark setting, moderation processes, and reducing risk of adverse impact
- Evaluating the effectiveness of assessment solutions by identifying appropriate statistical methods/techniques and interrogation of data to ensure they are robust, fair, reliable and valid (e.g. predictive validity, adverse impact analysis)

**Leadership, Engagement and Motivation**

Undertaking behavioural and collaborative-hiring based assessments for senior leader selection, providing feedback reports and using the behavioural insights to brief interview panels
- Delivering psychological assessments utilising a range of commercially available psychometric tools for senior leader selection, providing feedback reports and using the insight to brief interview panels
- Designing and delivering processes for talent management scheme selection
- Line management of one or two Occupational Psychologists may be required

**Expert Research and Advice**
- Managing, leading and delivering on a range of psychological and insight-led research projects that feed in a timely fashion into the online psychometric testing and assessment service to better enable the Occupational Psychology Service to make evidence-based policy ensuring effort is focused on the areas that add the greatest value
- Conducting in-house research, including: quantitative and qualitative research, from development of research materials, through field work including face to face interviews to analysis of data; secondary data analysis; research synthesis such as evidence reviews; and writing research reports
- Commissioning and managing external contractors and delivery partners to undertake activities that support the research and which provide high-quality evidence to inform policy decisions
- Liaising with stakeholders and delivery partners to ensure the research plans are informed by us

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