Practitioner Psychologist Band 8b - Forensic Psych Services


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£66,582 - £77,368
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Wickford, Essex, SS11 7FE
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	22 Aug 2026
Closing date:	13 Sept 2026

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Summary

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES CLINICAL 1. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the team, based upon the appropriate use, analysis, interpretation and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including: psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care. 2. To be responsible for formulation and implementation of complex plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management of service users offending behaviours, mental health/developmental disability/behavioural problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems and employing methods of evidence based efficacy across the full range of care settings. 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups based on formulations and drawing on different explanatory psychological models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options and any adjustment to plans, as treatment progresses, taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental processes, which have shaped the individual, family or group 5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for psychological assessment, treatment and discharge of service users, communicating with MDTs and others involved in care on a regular basis 6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to colleagues in the team, carers from the public, private and voluntary sector and families, as well as courts and solicitors where required 7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group 8. To ensure members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding care of service users through provision of advice and consultation and dissemination of psychological research and theory. To advise, support and facilitate effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team Please see full 'Job Description' and 'Person Specification' attachments for full details of the role.

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