91518 - Forensic or Clinical Registered Psychologist - Psychology Services- Women's Directorate
Ministry of Justice, Askham Richard, York
91518 - Forensic or Clinical Registered Psychologist - Psychology Services- Women's Directorate
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Ministry of Justice, Askham Richard, York
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted 1 day ago, 20 Oct | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 87d4872dfa95498e991c5a5142ec5d4e
Full Job Description
- Young Adult (YA) Pilot for those under 25 years old
- CRANE - which is a compassion focussed safety intervention
- Staff Space - which is a specialist staff reflective space offered as part of a prison wide pilot. In addition to this, WEPS have upskilled and trained staff across numerous prisons to undertake specific types of assessment and intervention which include: Integrative therapy for those who have experienced trauma Working with fire setters Working with Anger Healthy relationships Assessment and interventions for those convicted of TACT offences Staff will deliver these services across prisons to ensure equality of access for those who present with the highest level of need. Successful candidates will be given access to training opportunities as well as a comprehensive induction to position themselves working responsively in trauma-informed and gender sensitive ways., The job holder will be working with prisoners, people on probation and staff and applying their competence in psychology to reduce the risk of harm and of re- offending by undertaking a range of work including risk assessment of prisoners, conducting research, providing consultancy and delivering training for staff and assessment and interventions for offenders. This is non-operational and non rotational offender facing job. This job holder will be able to provide designated support and supervision to trainee psychologists. Responsibilities, Activities and Duties The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities,
- Offer authoritative professional advice on targets and objectives for relevant offenders and advise on the best location for those offenders (both within the establishment or relocation to another category establishment)
- Offer professional opinion to teams conducting reports e.g. lifer reports, parole reports
- Develop strategy and plans of activity for some areas of operation e.g. manages the organisation of relevant programme assessments or manages assessment and interviews those with 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 (e.g. interventions staff).
- Can be required to provide professional (designated) supervision of trainee's e.g. professional Supervision to ensure that a trainee is able to 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). These will be of the more complex type requiring such qualified input
- Provide consultancy role on specialist area e.g. 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 expert witness in respect of court proceedings for 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.
Women's Estate Psychology Services (WEPS) has grown significantly in the last 5 years and now employs over 70 staff. There is an established service in every woman's prison which offers a responsive and consistent core service defined by an operating model. Having established a benchmarked offer for each site, our priority has been to invest in to develop and maintain an engaged and specialist workforce. WEPS currently have vacancies across several prisons, and are likely to have posts coming up at other sites in the future, for candidates to join existing teams in delivering the next chapters of established core work and mobilise innovations. WEPS have secured additional funding to pilot / concept test / innovate in several ways across specific prisons or specific cohorts / functions within prisons to develop responsive services to meet the presenting needs of the population. Examples of this have included, An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.