Clinical/Forensic Practitioner Psychologist
| Posting date: | 18 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 March 2026 |
| Location: | Leyland, Lancashire, PR26 8NE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9350-26-0175 |
Summary
We are recruiting a clinical or forensic psychologist to join the team on a temporary basis for 12 months, this is to cover a period of maternity leave. Applicants at Band 7 or Band 8a level are eligible to apply. Full details of roles and responsibilities can be found in the attached job description. Clinical roles and responsibilities: To provide specialist psychological assessments of offenders referred to the unit based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, directand indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with offenders, family members and others involved in the offenders care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a offenders psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the offenders problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses where appropriate. 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 or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of offenders whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to offenders formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans. To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of offenders of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual offenders and to provide both general and specialist advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of offenders under their care and to monitor progress during the course of multidisciplinary care. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team.