Senior Psychologist

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

- 271881**Salary**:

- £33,830- Allowances: Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts. The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer).**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Navy**Type of role**:

- Psychology**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Gosport, South East England, PO12 2DLAbout the job

**Job summary**:
If you would like to work within a small, multi-disciplinary team, conducting varied and valued Psychology work, then this post could be for you.

This post is advertised for 37 hours per week

**Job description**:
Specific tasks may include but are not limited to:

- Engaging with customers to establish and deliver research and consultancy requirements.
- Designing and leading psychological research to address pertinent issues in the Royal Navy and wider MOD, including preparing protocols for scientific and ethical review.
- Creating and administering surveys to collect data on topics such as working conditions, safety behaviour and perceptions of military clothing or equipment.
- Conducting trials, facilitating focus groups, conducting interviews and analysing quantitative and qualitative data.
- Designing and delivering workshops on topics such as stress management, wellbeing and human factors.
- Line management responsibility for two Graduate Psychologists
- Writing research reports and letters for customers, including technical quality assurance of Graduate Psychologist outputs.
- Writing and submitting scientific papers and representing the group at conferences and meetings

Depending on the needs of the task, the post holder will at times work independently and at other times collaboratively with team members or colleagues in other departments. The post holder will be required to engage with customers and stakeholders at all levels, including senior military and civilian personnel. The post requires occasional travel within the UK and sometimes overseas, each of which may include overnight stays on land and possibly at sea.

The Institute of Naval Medicine is the Naval Service’s Centre of Excellence, bringing together scientists and medical professionals to improve the health of the UK Armed Forces. The unique opportunities offered within are varied, challenging and exciting and support Navy Command’s role to generate and operate forces for today and to ensure we are ready for tomorrow by developing and delivering the Navy of the future.

In Navy Command, our civil servants work alongside their military colleagues in jobs that matter; jobs which often have a direct impact on the quality of the operational capabilities we deliver.

Roles can offer great job satisfaction and there are many opportunities to develop and progress both within the Department and across the wider Civil Service.

Navy Command provides an open, flexible, and inclusive work environment where civil servants and Armed Forces personnel work together in a wealth of interesting and challenging jobs in areas ranging from: finance; legal services; personnel and HR; project planning and managing contracts, to media and communications.

**Person specification**:
It is essential that you have an undergraduate Honours degree in Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a postgraduate qualification in Psychology.

Membership or eligibility for membership of the British Psychological Society is essential (membership fees will be paid by the MOD).

A minimum of two years’ relevant experience in one or more of the following roles is essential: applied psychology or social research.

**Qualifications**:

- It is essential that you have an undergraduate Honours degree in Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a postgraduate qualification in Psychology.**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Leading, communicating and championing social research

**Benefits**:

- At the Institute of Naval Medicine, we offer an impressive range of on-site facilities including a gymnasium, volleyball court, medicinal garden, plenty of car parking spaces, a canteen with indoor and outdoor seating, and two ‘mess’ facilities (areas for military and civilian personnel to socialize and eat). The Institute is in the seaside settlement of Alverstoke, a short walk from award-winning Georgian era gardens and a shingle beach with views of the Isl