Job Description (JD)
Band 7
Group Profile: Registered Practitioner (RP)
Job Description: RP: Registered Psychologist
Document Ref.
OR-JES-219-JD-B7 : RP : Registered Psychologist v8.0
Document Type
Management
Version
8.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
24 August 2022
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
OR-JES-219-JD-B7 : RP : Registered Psychologist v8.0
Job Description
Job Title
RP : Registered Psychologist
Group Profile
Registered Practitioner
Organisation Level
Functional Specialist
Band
7
Overview of the job
This is a non-operational offender facing job.
Summary
The job holder will be working with prisoners, people on probation and staff and
applying their competence in psychology to reduce the risk of harm and of re-
offending by undertaking a range of work including risk assessment of prisoners,
conducting research, providing consultancy and delivering training for staff and
assessment and interventions for offenders. This is non-operational and non
rotational offender facing job.
This job holder will be able to provide designated support and supervision to trainee
psychologists.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities
Activities and Duties
and duties:
• Offer authoritative professional advice on targets and objectives for relevant
offenders and advise on the best location for those offenders (both within the
establishment or relocation to another category establishment)
• Offer professional opinion to teams conducting reports e.g. lifer reports, parole
reports
• Develop strategy and plans of activity for some areas of operation e.g. manages
the organisation of relevant programme assessments or manages assessment
and interviews those with an indeterminate sentence
• Provide consultancy support to colleagues such as the SMT or other teams in
relation to psychology services and outcomes.
• Conduct relevant research including data gathering and analysis
• Responsible for providing supervision to trainee forensic psychology staff
• Provide training, mentoring and support to trainee psychologists and other staff
(e.g. interventions staff).
• Can be required to provide professional (designated) supervision of trainee’s
e.g. professional Supervision to ensure that a trainee is able to develop through
the key steps towards chartered and registered status.
• Ensure staff are developed in accordance with key competencies and gateways
and ensuring consistency across the team in the application of policies and
procedures affecting staff and prisoners
• Lead on risk assessment and resulting risk management
• Participate in risk assessment of offenders to determine their risk of harm to
self, others and the risk of reoffending. May undertake Assessment, Care in
Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) and self-harm assessments.
• Can be required to deliver and/or oversee the quality of programmes
(treatment management). These will be of the more complex type requiring
such qualified input
• Provide consultancy role on specialist area e.g. Working with those convicted of
Sexual Offending Strategy or Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners (ISP) Strategy
• Act as a negotiation adviser where suitable and competence has been
demonstrated
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• Act as a “professional witness" in parole board hearings, multi-agency meetings,
and other formal settings where psychology input is required. May also act as
expert witness in respect of court proceedings for Ministry of Justice.
• Maintain own Continued Professional Development (CPD) and registration with
the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not
intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable
alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant
adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall
be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium
of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
Behaviours
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
Strengths
It is advised strengths are chosen locally, recommended 4-8.
Experience
• Possess a professional background in Psychology
• Experience in providing clinical supervision
• Completed relevant training in effective models of treatment and best
practise
Technical
• Qualified and registered clinician with the HCPC
requirements
Ability
Minimum Eligibility
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• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post.
• All external candidates are subject to 6 months’ probation. Internal candidates are
subject to probation if they have not already served a probationary period within
HMPPS.
• All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or
organisation which HMPPS consider to be racist.
Hours of Work
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
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Success Profile
Strengths
Behaviours
It is advised strengths
Ability
Experience
Technical
are chosen locally,
recommended 4-8
Making Effective Decisions
Possess a professional background
Qualified and registered
in Psychology
clinician with the HCPC
Leadership
Experience in providing clinical
supervision
Communicating and Influencing
Completed relevant training in
effective models of treatment and
best practise
Working Together
Developing Self and Others
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