Registered Psychologist- Hmp Grendon Therapeutic - Aylesbury, United Kingdom - Ministry of Justice

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Aylesbury, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Description

**Registered Psychologist

HMP Grendon Therapeutic Community **
£39,674 £45,625

Aylesbury:

HMP Grendon is the only prison in the UK solely comprised of Therapeutic Communities.

Overview of the job
This is a non-operational offender facing job.

Summary
- 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 and duties:

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.

- 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 selfharm 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, multiagency 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.

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

Behaviours

Making Effective Decisions
Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Developing Self and Others

Experience

Possess a professional background in Psychology
Experience in providing clinical supervision
Completed relevant training in effective models of treatment and best practise

Technical requirements

Qualified and registered clinician with the HCPC

Salary:

£39,674 - £45,625

Additional Information:

Working Arrangements & Further Information
Standard working hours for this post are 37 hours per week excluding breaks which are unpaid.

If you are a current NPS employee, this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years.

Applications are invited from suitable qualified staff.

Benefits

Annual Leave

The holiday year runs from 1 March. If you work a non standard work pattern your leave entitlement may be expressed in either hours or days as appropriate. Leave entitlement is calculated on a prorata basis and you will be advised of your actual entitlement on appointment. If you were appointed internally and your leave was previously calculated in days, this will continue to be the case.

Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays

Pension