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Job Description (JD)
Band 7
Group Profile: Registered Practitioner(RP)
Job Description: RP: Registered Psychologist
Document Ref.
OR-JES-219-JD-B8 : RP: Registered Psychologist
v9.0
Document Type
Management
Version
9.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
31st March 2025
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation Assurance and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
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Job Description
Job Title
RP: Registered Psychologist
Group Profile
Registered Psychologist
Organisation
Functional Specialist
Level
Band
7
Overview of the
This is a non-operational offender facing job.
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 job holder
will be able to provide designated support and supervision to
trainee psychologists.
This is non-operational offender facing job with line management
responsibilities. This role is non-rotational.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
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
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• 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
• 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.
Civil Service Success Profile Criteria
Behaviours
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
Strengths
We recommend you choose 4 to 8 strengths locally.
Experience
• Possess a professional background in Psychology
• Experience in providing clinical supervision
• Completed relevant training in effective models of treatment
and best practise
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Technical
• Qualified and registered clinician with the HCPC
requirements
Ability
Minimum
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Eligibility
• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to
taking up post.
• All external candidates are subject to 12 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
37 hour working week.
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
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