Applied Practitioner Psychologist
| Posting date: | 08 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 January 2026 |
| Location: | Stafford, ST16 3SR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9301-25-1512 |
Summary
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for the roles. Clinical Responsibilities To work with service users and staff on the Forensic Directorate inpatient wards and in outpatient settings if appropriate. To work with service users and other professionals in community settings, including local hospitals, mental health resource centres, Social Services and Probation Offices as required. To work with service users and staff in prisons, special hospitals and other secure facilities as required. To routinely work with service users who have been perpetrators and/or victims of offences that cause serious harm and/or who show behaviour that is severely challenging services. This includes behaviour that may be violent and or cause sexual harm. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for service users of the Forensic Directorate based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.