Location: Homebased - UK | Salary: £60,000 | Posted: 1 Apr 2025 | Closes: 22 Apr 2025 | Job Type: Full Time and Permanent | Business Unit: UK Central Government Services | Region / Division: UK & Ireland | Reference: 16979

QUALIFIED CLINICAL OR FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST WITH AT LEAST FOUR YEARS POST QUALIFICATION EXPERIENCE.

• HCPC registration.
• Strong knowledge of psychological treatment and support theories, models, recovery approaches and interventions.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting people to change their behaviour using psychological techniques.

• Ability to gather, analyse, present and report on data for clinical and strategic purposes.

  Excellent interpersonal communication skills with staff, participants and others.

• Employ an empathetic and non-judgmental attitude towards service users.

  Ability to maintain professional boundaries.

A high level of adaptability and passion for delivering excellence.

• A working knowledge of performance management and meeting demanding targets
• Good technical/IT ability.
• Understand and have a commitment to the principles of equality and diversity.
• Flexibility to work across Wales with an agreed base, some travel and some remote work expected.
• Full, clean UK driving licence and access to a vehicle with business insurance.

Leading by example, we are looking for a highly motivated and determined psychologist, with the ability to be resilient, confident with a tenacious can-do attitude, have the ability to embrace complexity and be a part of a busy and fast paced team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with the Lead Psychologist on the project to develop a complementary working relationship.
• Provide guidance to a team of Assistant Psychologists to deliver assessments and interventions for people given an MHTR.
• Provide the team with support and leadership, to establish treatment approaches, to embed effective methods with sound theoretical basis.
• Leading on innovative practice around psychoeducation, managing the impact of past trauma and coping with low mood amid the difficulties and challenges of life.
• Willingness to explore a range of trauma informed treatment models including the Power, Threat, Meaning Framework (PTMF) as a treatment approach for our participant group and to draw in other models as appropriate.
• Help establish a programme of support and intervention work for use by our AP team.
• Represent our treatment approach with a range of external stakeholders, helping to establish working relationships with Court and Probation colleagues to support the effective treatment of individuals.
• Help set up new partnerships with local and regional health and support providers across Wales for follow on support.
• Help set up a strong working relationship with our management team establishing confidence in role boundaries.
• Develop a strong understanding of sentencing and support to respond to developments and trends, becoming an anticipatory service responsive to emerging needs.
• Ensure the service upholds best public protection practice in relation to risks of harm and offending and best safeguarding practice in relation to children and adults at risk.
• To work with the other MHTR Psychologists to create a strong presence for treatment expertise in the MHTR service and across all of the G4S Community Service suite.
• Work with all G4S Community managers and practitioners to promote collaboration.
• To support our work to capture, process and present data accurately and interpret it with insight. Responding to data to improve service performance, to develop services identifying trends and meeting needs, and to demonstrate activity and impact for external audiences.
• Contribute to written reports for internal and external use.
• Contribute to the delivery of contractual requirements as agreed in the Contract.
• Develop opportunities for wider development for the contract.

PLEASE NOTE THAT APPLICANTS MUST COMPLETE A 500 - 700 WORD STATEMENT OUTLINING THEIR SUITABILITY FOR THE ROLE AND CLEARLY OUTLINING HOW YOUR SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE WOULD APPLY TO THIS POST.

We encourage applications from Welsh speaking candidates.
Equality and Diversity is an important part of G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and are a fully inclusive employer who aims to support all employees to be their true selves. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments for either the role or during the recruitment process.
G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and each employee is expected to support these goals.
Please note that these vacancies are subject to a 5 year checkable history and the strict vetting standards set by G4S and the Secretary of State for the Home Office.
You must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum period of 3 years. You will also need to provide full details of your employment and education history for the last 5 years as part of the security screening process for this role.