Clinical Forensic Psychologist Part-time Position

3 days ago


Peterborough, Peterborough, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Senior Clinical/Forensic Psychologist- Enhanced Support Service

The Enhanced Support Service (ESS) is a service model that provides intensive support to prisoners and staff using a psychologically informed approach. The service aims to reduce the negative impact of violent, suicidal, and disruptive behavior in prisons.

This role is to set up and deliver an enhanced support service within the offender personality disorder pathway as a qualified clinical/forensic psychologist. The service will be within HMP Peterborough female estate.

Main Duties of the Job

The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy while offering advice and consultation on prisoners' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

  • Utilize research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research within the area served by Northamptonshire NHS Foundation Trust.
  • Work alongside prison and health colleagues in the provision of personality disordered offender services within HMP Peterborough.
  • Include assessments and case management, advice, consultation, and training.
  • Collaborate with an evaluation of the service.
About Us

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is an integrated primary care and mental health trust that provides physical, mental health, and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centers in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

We promote a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, focusing on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development, and growth.

Job Responsibilities

The successful candidate will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy while offering advice and consultation on prisoners' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will have a doctoral-level training in clinical psychology or forensic psychology, specifically in models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology, and lifespan developmental psychology. They will also have supervisor training or a willingness to undertake training to supervise doctoral program clinical psychology trainees.

Additional requirements include skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups, additional training or accreditation for another therapeutic modality, and specialized training related to personality disorders.

The successful candidate will also have knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialized psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, necessitating a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.



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