Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist
| Posting date: | 30 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 August 2025 |
| Location: | Portland, DT5 1EQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-25-0957 |
Summary
Key Task and Responsibilities To travel to clinical venues, training activities and meetings as appropriate and across the Trust when required. To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow Trust policies relating to its management. To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations of people in distress or in crisis and who may be abusive and to support others involved in such situations. To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics or weekend working, within the overall Job Plan. To be proficient in the use of IT for purposes such as email, electronic calendar, intranet, video calls and electronic clinical records. 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. For those line managing, to ensure local standards are implemented for the allocation and review of work, job planning, review of performance, sickness management and initial stages of grievance or disciplinary action. To oversee quality line management and supervision within the team structure, ensuring that staff and trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies. 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 Attend and contribute to directorate level meetings and forums, as directed. Contribute to the delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse communities. 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. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, including taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans with input from clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care. 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).