Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist - Development post
| Posting date: | 08 September 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: | 22 September 2025 |
| Location: | March, PE15 0PR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-0801 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems; emotional, cognitive and behavioural. In particular to use specialist knowledge in relation to offending behaviour, to develop psychological formulations of the connection between a persons personality psychopathology and the dangerous offences they have committed. This will require the integration of information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group. To incorporate the results of individual assessments into the formulations and treatment and care plans for the patient(s). To be able to articulate these formulations to other members of the multidisciplinary team including non-clinical staff using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills at a level which is accessible to all. Within a cognitive interpersonal framework to develop plans for the formal psychological individual treatment and/or management of a patients mental health and behavioural problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To formulate, develop and implement plans for neuropsychological assessment informing the psychological treatment and/or management of a patients neurocognitive deficits within an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems. Ensuring methods are efficacious meeting the patients needs within the Fens service or in support of appropriate referral to another specialist service. Within a cognitive interpersonal framework to develop plans for the formal psychological individual treatment and/or management of a patients mental health and behavioural problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To provide management, coordination and delivery in conjunction with the clinical director, on the application of virtual reality methods both within assessment and treatment provisions within the Fens service, developing appropriate evaluation methodologies and research protocols for this provision. To provide neurofeedback services to individual patients working within an approved research protocol and delivering key assessments as designated to support the evaluation of this wellbeing intervention with high risk patients who have a history of acute developmental trauma. Training will be provided if needed. To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory, including specialist neurological assessment.