Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 July 2025 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE3 6AN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-0611 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities To provide clinical oversight and guidance of Assistant Psychologists work relating to assessments, formulations, treatment planning and delivery of care to service users. To offer regular clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists who will be carrying out suitability assessment and delivering low intensity psychological interventions. To hold their own small caseload of direct clinical therapeutic work with the service users. To formulate risk and clinical need in collaboration with team members. To formulate plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of offenders based upon appropriate conceptual frameworks of risk management, mental health, family systems and individual psychological functioning. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about risk management and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental, and systemic processes that have shaped the offender. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to offenders formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan. To provide clinical expertise to the Liaison and Diversion Service, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to offenders. To manage risk and improve outcomes for offenders by providing weekly supervision to an assistant psychologist who will be working with offenders to offer them a manualised treatment under Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) ordered by the courts as a part of a Community Order. To support the clinical lead in providing consultation and clinical expertise to colleagues in the Liaison and Diversion service to encourage a psychological approach in their work and to facilitate their professional development, reflective capacity and the effective and safe delivery of Liaison and Diversion Services. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research, particularly with respect to evaluating the MHTRs and monitoring outcome for the interventions provided by the assistant psychologist.