Specialist Psychological Therapist (preceptorship)
| Posting date: | 23 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 August 2025 |
| Location: | Portland, DT5 1DL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-25-0908 |
Summary
Management responsibilities To provide line management to designated assistant psychologists. Provide supervision to students and trainees and to multi-disciplinary colleagues delivering psychological interventions. To support recruitment of assistant psychologists to the service. To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and training of staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. This may include work with the Criminal Justice System and Childrens Services. Leadership To provide and support specialist clinical placements for students and trainees in applied psychological practice. To contribute to the delivery of teaching and training to junior psychological practitioners and specialist training to other professions. Clinical To provide direct psychological care (assessment and intervention) and support the delivery of psychologically informed care by all disciplines within the service. To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions. IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ: All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team. You will need to provide: Proof of right to work documentation Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographicID Proof of address documentation Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. Address History: 5 years address history will be needed. Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited. In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).