12414 - Regional Lead Psychologist - Psychology Services - Safety - LTHSE
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 03 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £78,587 i £91,487 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | The national salary range is £78,587 - £86,446, London salary range is £81,601 - £91,487. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 17 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | UK |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 1 diwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Ministry of Justice |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 12414 |
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The LTHSE is made up of 13 Long Term & High Security jails with approximately 10,000 prisoners. LTHSE Psychology have value and voice across all of these jails and are fully integrated into all aspects of operational and clinical working. Our greatest strength and achievement are within our successful and effective Clinical & Operational partnership working. Due to recent reconfiguration and business need, we have a vacancy for a Band 10 Psychologist.
LTHSE population poses the highest risk, complexity, and challenge across HMPPS. The directorate accommodates highly specialised units – which are a national resource for our most disruptive and dangerous prisoners, these include: Closed Supervision Centres, Separation Centres, High Security OPD units (formerly DSPD) and 13 Segregation Units.
LTHSE PSG provides strategic and clinical oversight for the Category A population, the highest-security level in the UK prison system. It manages individuals who pose the greatest risk to public safety or national security, typically serving long or indeterminate sentences for serious violent, organised, or terrorism-related offences. Around 1,000 men are held across our High-Security Prisons, either in main locations or under specialist regimes - including CSCs and Separation Centres - designed to balance containment with rehabilitative opportunities.
The Close Supervision Centre (CSC) system provides care and management for some of the most disruptive and high-risk prisoners in HMPPS, who have demonstrated significant violent and/or highly disruptive behaviour whilst in custody, and where their risk is deemed to not be manageable elsewhere in the prison estate. The available CSC accommodation totals 78 (66 in units, and 12 Designated Cells located in segregation units across LTHSE prisons). The current CSC roll is 73 (as of October 2025), with further known referrals expected following serious recent incidents. Given the current population exceeds the available cells on CSC Units, there is a critical need to significantly expand the estate.
Separation Centres (SC) were developed as discrete units in 2017 to allow greater separation and specialised management of extremist prisoners who, irrespective of the type of ideology, present a level of risk that cannot be managed on a mainstream or alternative location. There are three SC units, with two of these currently open, holding 12 prisoners across both sites.
The LTHSE Segregation units provide a national resource to manage complex and difficult prisoners including Category A prisoners, high risk prisoners awaiting transfer to secure hospital, those pending CSC referral, and those not selected for CSC who may still present a heightened risk and require bespoke pathways that benefit from psychological input. LTHSE Segregation units are frequently at capacity.
As well as providing psychological and management oversight across the LTHSE, including jails housing several specialist units, the post would have strategic oversight of psychological input into Safety within the LTHSE prisons. The role would involve working collaboratively with the Regional Safety Team, the PSG Safety team and modelling the clinical/operational partnership. Specific areas of work include developing the understanding of good data practices and how this should drive strategic change at both a regional and site level. Providing support to sites through visits and monitoring of HMIP expectations, providing feedback on areas of concern around the management of violence and SASH. This role will involve strong links with the National Safety Team and PSG National Safety Team to share learning, resources and joined-up support for LTHSE sites. There should be a focus on developing and maintaining capability within the workforce in managing complex and challenging individuals, as well as supporting those most vulnerable and self-isolating. It will involve being part of the LTHSE regional SLT, providing a psychological voice to these meetings and ensuring the work being conducted clinically is recognised and reflected on, to provide a holistic approach.
To note, this role is based in our geographically disbursed LTHSE prisons and therefore, travel will be required often.
LTHSE population poses the highest risk, complexity, and challenge across HMPPS. The directorate accommodates highly specialised units – which are a national resource for our most disruptive and dangerous prisoners, these include: Closed Supervision Centres, Separation Centres, High Security OPD units (formerly DSPD) and 13 Segregation Units.
LTHSE PSG provides strategic and clinical oversight for the Category A population, the highest-security level in the UK prison system. It manages individuals who pose the greatest risk to public safety or national security, typically serving long or indeterminate sentences for serious violent, organised, or terrorism-related offences. Around 1,000 men are held across our High-Security Prisons, either in main locations or under specialist regimes - including CSCs and Separation Centres - designed to balance containment with rehabilitative opportunities.
The Close Supervision Centre (CSC) system provides care and management for some of the most disruptive and high-risk prisoners in HMPPS, who have demonstrated significant violent and/or highly disruptive behaviour whilst in custody, and where their risk is deemed to not be manageable elsewhere in the prison estate. The available CSC accommodation totals 78 (66 in units, and 12 Designated Cells located in segregation units across LTHSE prisons). The current CSC roll is 73 (as of October 2025), with further known referrals expected following serious recent incidents. Given the current population exceeds the available cells on CSC Units, there is a critical need to significantly expand the estate.
Separation Centres (SC) were developed as discrete units in 2017 to allow greater separation and specialised management of extremist prisoners who, irrespective of the type of ideology, present a level of risk that cannot be managed on a mainstream or alternative location. There are three SC units, with two of these currently open, holding 12 prisoners across both sites.
The LTHSE Segregation units provide a national resource to manage complex and difficult prisoners including Category A prisoners, high risk prisoners awaiting transfer to secure hospital, those pending CSC referral, and those not selected for CSC who may still present a heightened risk and require bespoke pathways that benefit from psychological input. LTHSE Segregation units are frequently at capacity.
As well as providing psychological and management oversight across the LTHSE, including jails housing several specialist units, the post would have strategic oversight of psychological input into Safety within the LTHSE prisons. The role would involve working collaboratively with the Regional Safety Team, the PSG Safety team and modelling the clinical/operational partnership. Specific areas of work include developing the understanding of good data practices and how this should drive strategic change at both a regional and site level. Providing support to sites through visits and monitoring of HMIP expectations, providing feedback on areas of concern around the management of violence and SASH. This role will involve strong links with the National Safety Team and PSG National Safety Team to share learning, resources and joined-up support for LTHSE sites. There should be a focus on developing and maintaining capability within the workforce in managing complex and challenging individuals, as well as supporting those most vulnerable and self-isolating. It will involve being part of the LTHSE regional SLT, providing a psychological voice to these meetings and ensuring the work being conducted clinically is recognised and reflected on, to provide a holistic approach.
To note, this role is based in our geographically disbursed LTHSE prisons and therefore, travel will be required often.