Senior Forensic Psychologist

1 month ago

Warrington, Warrington, United Kingdom Civil Service Jobs Full time
Job Summary

This is a challenging and rewarding role for a qualified psychologist to work with prisoners, people on probation, and staff to reduce the risk of harm and re-offending.

The job holder will be responsible for undertaking risk assessments, conducting research, providing consultancy, and delivering training to staff and assessment and interventions for offenders.

This is a non-operational and non-rotational offender-facing job, and the job holder will be able to provide designated support and supervision to trainee psychologists.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide authoritative professional advice on targets and objectives for relevant offenders and advise on the best location for those offenders.
  • Offer professional opinion to teams conducting reports, such as lifer reports and parole reports.
  • Develop strategy and plans of activity for some areas of operation, including managing the organisation of relevant programme assessments and managing assessment and interviews with those having an indeterminate sentence.
  • Provide consultancy support to colleagues, such as the SMT or other teams, in relation to psychology services and outcomes.
  • Conduct relevant research, including data gathering and analysis.
  • Responsible for providing supervision to trainee forensic psychology staff.
  • Provide training, mentoring, and support to trainee psychologists and other staff, including interventions staff.
  • Can be required to provide professional (designated) supervision of trainees, ensuring they develop through the key steps towards chartered and registered status.
  • Ensure staff are developed in accordance with key competencies and gateways, and ensuring consistency across the team in the application of policies and procedures affecting staff and prisoners.
  • Lead on risk assessment and resulting risk management.
  • Participate in risk assessment of offenders to determine their risk of harm to self, others, and the risk of reoffending. May undertake Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) and self-harm assessments.
  • Can be required to deliver and/or oversee the quality of programmes (treatment management), which will be of the more complex type requiring such qualified input.
  • Provide consultancy role on specialist areas, such as Working with those convicted of Sexual Offending Strategy or Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners (ISP) Strategy.
  • Act as a negotiation adviser where suitable and competence has been demonstrated.
  • Act as a professional witness in parole board hearings, multi-agency meetings, and other formal settings where psychology input is required. May also act as an expert witness in respect of court proceedings for the Ministry of Justice.
  • Maintain own Continued Professional Development (CPD) and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

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