Senior Occupational Psychologist
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £42,382 to £45,920 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | YO1 7PX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 407337/7 |
Summary
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.
We are recruiting two Senior Occupational Psychologists (SOP).
You’ll play a critical role in supporting our growing business offer. You will frequently be working with other members of the team on large programmes of work, but you will also be given the freedom to lead on projects independently, covering the entire consultancy cycle.
Main Responsibilities
Psychological Assessment at Work
- Scoping and designing 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.
- 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
- Act as a subject matter expert providing expert advice on recruitment, use of assessments and wider Occupational Psychology areas.
- Keep up-to-date with the latest innovations in assessments, psychometrics, modern testing methods and in particular recruitment testing.
- 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.
Providing expert advice and research
- Providing professional occupational psychology advice and guidance to clients and senior leaders to ensure adherence to industry best practice and the highest ethical standards.
- Providing occupational psychologist support for information gathering exercises such as surveys and focus groups, and providing activities to support organisational development.
- Representing the Occupational Psychology profession at working groups, committees and other forums across government to inform policy and operations.
- Researching new and emerging assessment methods/processes; setting up and conducting detailed studies to explore their impact and efficacy.
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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