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Registered Psychologist

Job details
Posting date: 24 May 2024
Salary: £47,907 to £47,907 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 11 June 2024
Location: Usk, Monmouthshire
Remote working: On-site only
Company: HM Prison and Probation Service
Job type: Permanent
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Summary

Forensic Psychological Services, HMPPS in Wales, is seeking a Registered Psychologist to join our expanding team. The job holder will be a Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council and eligible to use a protected title.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work across region supporting with the work FPS delivers across settings in Wales and will also have access to office space in Cardiff and Swansea to complete work as required.

Our Psychologists have the opportunity to work with a diverse offending population across Wales’ public sector as well as in the National Probation Service settings in the community.

We undertake complex risk assessments and interventions, develop and deliver training, oversee research and provide consultancy to a range of stakeholders, working closely with partners from Welsh Government, NHS, Police and Crime Commissioning, Youth Justice and academia.

We provide opportunities for our staff to be involved in innovative projects, developing the scope and impact of our work and all of our Psychologists benefit from ongoing training and developmental opportunities.

Overview of the job

This is a non-operational offender facing job.

Summary

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.

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