Principal Occupational Psychologist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £55,403 i £66,400 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National: £55,403 - £61,939 London: £61,005 - £66,400 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | LS1 4AP |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 407375/5 |
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Acting as an internal consultancy to all of the Civil Service, we collaborate with government departments, functions and professions to develop and deliver high quality, customer-focused assessment products and solutions grounded in occupational psychology and psychometrics. Our services aim to help identify and develop the best people from all backgrounds, including the Civil Service’s prestigious talent programmes.
We also place ourselves at the forefront of assessment innovation, and are actively creating a growing range of evidence-based psychological assessment tools.
You will be joining a high performing multi-disciplinary team of occupational psychologists, psychometricians and digital experts who use evidence-based practice to put the client and user at the heart of what they do. We are a team that embraces innovation to deliver better results, improved efficiency and added value, with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.
We achieve this by:
- Being at the leading edge of assessment and selection techniques and digital developments
- Developing our services through evidence-based research and analysis
- Ensuring diversity and inclusion is embedded in all our activities
- Providing a seamless and flexible customer experience
- Meeting business requirements with efficient, effective and value for money solutions
- Providing a great and evolving journey for test takers
Government People Group (GPG) works with departments, professions and functions to build a skilled, modern and effective Civil Service. We equip the Government workforce with the right skills and capabilities to excel in their roles. We work with leaders to get the right people in the right jobs with the right skills. We provide leadership — and create leaders — with exceptional line management capability across departments, influencing partners in the wider public sector. This involves getting H.M. Government’s retention and reward strategy right, nurturing specific skills, and creating pride and resilience in our workforce.
Within GPG, the Recruitment Directorate works with partners across the Civil Service to deliver award-winning expert recruitment services, support, advice and policy to enable the Government to put the right people in the right roles.
Working alongside experienced psychometricians, the Principal Occupational Psychologist (P-OP) will lead on psychometric development, testing and system integration of a suite of online tests used for recruitment in the Civil Service and the psychometric aspects of integration with our main candidate management systems. They will develop new content, carry out subject matter expert reviews and content trialling and lead the assembly and implementation of test products with our departmental customers – using a combination of surveys, item trialling, workshops and one to one user research. They will research and analyse new innovations and products, carrying out in-depth statistical evaluations.
The P-OP will act as a subject matter expert and thought leader, representing the service line professionally with a wide range of customers and stakeholders. They will lead research and discovery, provide expert advice to policy colleagues and identify and exploit opportunities for innovation and transformation in HR processes.
The P-OP will work very closely with a multi-disciplinary digital team operating an agile project management approach, so will work in an agile way in the design of test integrations, the user interface and test assembly, staging and implementation.
Occasional travel within the UK will be a requirement of the role. The team is located in multiple sites across the UK, and meets monthly in person at various locations for work retrospectives and planning.
The P-OP will be a member of a wider team of professional psychologists and psychometrics specialists and will be expected to contribute to the development of professional practice and work collaboratively with colleagues on a wider portfolio of activities when the need arises.
The P-OP role has line management responsibility for three Senior Occupational Psychologists and one psychologist in training.
Main Responsibilities
Psychological Assessment at Work
- Scope and design bespoke assessment solutions including: psychometric tests, situational judgement questionnaires and other evidence-based sifting tools, behavioural work sample simulations, assessment centres and interviews
- Using online assessment platforms to implement and support delivery of assessment solutions; working with digital, data assurance and diversity colleagues to ensure new assessments are compliant, fair, and meet customer and user needs
- Managing multiple assessment projects at all stages of the consultancy cycle
- Delivering comprehensive training packages to assessors, interviewers and role players to ensure consistent, standardised and objective assessments
- Working with customers to ensure best practice use of assessments to support client decision making including pass-mark setting, moderation processes, and reducing risk of adverse impact
- Evaluating the effectiveness of assessment solutions by identifying appropriate statistical methods/techniques and interrogation of data to ensure they are robust, fair, reliable and valid (e.g. predictive validity, adverse impact analysis)
Leadership, Engagement and Motivation
- Undertaking behavioural and collaborative-hiring based assessments for senior leader selection, providing feedback reports and using the behavioural insights to brief interview panels
- Delivering psychological assessments utilising a range of commercially available psychometric tools for senior leader selection, providing feedback reports and using the insight to brief interview panels
- Designing and delivering processes for talent management scheme selection
- Line management of four Occupational Psychologists, including psychologists in training
- Act as a senior leader in the Occupational Psychology Service team
- Chartered Psychologists and Registered Occupational Psychologists are required to supervise Trainee Occupational Psychologists on the qualification to achieve Registered Occupational Psychologist status. If not already registered on the Register of Applied Practice Psychology Supervisors (RAPPS), work towards RAPPS eligibility within a reasonable timescale.
Expert Research and Advice
- Managing, leading and delivering on a range of psychological and insight-led research projects that feed in a timely fashion into the online psychometric testing and assessment service to better enable the Occupational Psychology Service to make evidence-based policy ensuring effort is focused on the areas that add the greatest value
- Conducting in-house research, including: quantitative and qualitative research, from development of research materials, through field work including face to face interviews to analysis of data; secondary data analysis; research synthesis such as evidence reviews; and writing research reports
- Commissioning and managing external contractors and delivery partners to undertake activities that support the research and which provide high-quality evidence to inform policy decisions
- Liaising with stakeholders and delivery partners to ensure the research plans are informed by user and customer feedback, are understood, and are implemented effectively when agreed
- Supporting policy colleagues in managing relationships with wider stakeholders to ensure maximum buy-in and use of analytical work being delivered
- Ensuring appropriate quality assurance processes are designed and implemented and ensuring the processes are delivered effectively to ensure analytical outputs are accurate and meet policy need
- Developing and maintaining links with the academic and research community to ensure advice to ministers, senior officials and colleagues draws on national and international evidence
- Communicating effectively the results of analysis to analysts and non-analysts, including research and insight papers, articles, letters, presentations and in-person sessions
- Providing advice, with support of senior analysts, to Ministers, senior officials and colleagues as required on the findings of the research and analysis
Business Development
- Preparing marketing material and contributing to writing project proposals for clients
- Attracting, scoping and agreeing income generating work and developing new business for OPS
- Developing and progressing business cases, advising policy colleagues and supporting effective business management processes
Paul Weldon, Head of OPS, will be hosting a Q&A event about the jobs on Thursday, 19 June at 3pm. Anyone interested in attending should use this link (Video call link: https://meet.google.com/bod-jgfg-irv, Or dial: (GB) +44 20 3957 3243 PIN: 148 991 146#, More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/bod-jgfg-irv?pin=2247054068883).
As this will be an open event, if you wish to remain anonymous, please avoid use of your name when registering and keep your camera switched off.
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