Youth Custody Service

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

- 388796

**Salary**:

- £56,221 - £61,843
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer
- HMPPS Band 8

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Type of role**:

- Psychology

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- This position is based at HMYOI FELTHAM, TW13 4ND

About the job

**Job summary**:

- Please refer to Job Description

**Job description**:
Psychology Services for HMPPS Youth Custody Service (YCS) are currently recruiting Senior Registered Psychologists. YCS is geographically dispersed with boys and girls aged under 18 years accommodated in a variety of sites including: HMYOIs Feltham (Heathrow), Wetherby (Yorkshire) and Oakhill Secure Training Centre (STC). YCS Psychology Services provide a spectrum of services across all sites with staff based in all YOIs and the STC. Other posts also provide a service across all sites and require a willingness to travel given YCS is geographically dispersed across England and Wales. Whilst Feltham only currently accommodate boys, Wetherby and Oakhill accommodate both boys and girls. Successful applicants will be part of an established team committed to working with children in custody which includes Forensic, Counselling, Occupational and Educational Psychologists plus Family Therapists.

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**Person specification**:

- Please refer to Job Description

**Licences**:

- The job holder will be a Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council and eligible to use a protected title. HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist

**Memberships**:

- The job holder will be a Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council and eligible to use a protected title. HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist

**Languages**:

- Spoken and Written English

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others
- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service

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

- Please refer to Job Description

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £56,221, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £16,287 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

**Security**:

- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

**Diversity and Inclusion**:

- The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
- This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

**Contact point for applicants**:
Job contact:

- Name:
- SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team-
- Telephone:
- 0345 241 5358

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