Applied Principal Psychologist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£66,582 to £77,368 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	March, Cambridgeshire, PE15 0PR
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	7 Sept 2026
Closing date:	21 Sept 2026

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Summary

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems; emotional, cognitive and behavioural. In particular to use specialist knowledge in relation to offending behaviour, trauma and to develop psychological formulations of the connection between a persons personality psychopathology and the risk they pose to others 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, carers or group To incorporate the results of individual assessments, including neuropsychological assessment, into the formulations and treatment and care plans for the patient(s). To be able to articulate these formulations to other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team including non-clinical staff using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills at a level which is accessible to all Within a cognitive interpersonal framework develop plans for the formal psychological individual treatment/formulation and/or management of a service users mental health and behavioural problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings To provide management, co-ordination and delivery in conjunction with the Clinical Lead, Treatment Leads, and partnership agencies, on the development of new innovative services within the Fens and wider prison. This will include the application of adjunctive and alternative therapies both within assessment and treatment provisions within the wider Fens services, supporting the psycho-social environment and developing appropriate evaluation methodologies and research protocols To ensure that all members of the clinical and operational team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users in the OPDP Fens services, across all settings and agencies serving the patient group, including delivery of service user collaboration and/or co-production To take a leading role within the Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings providing direct input to those meetings and communicating information on psychological assessments, formulations and interventions undertaken by other Psychologists/Psychotherapists within the OPDP Fens service To contribute to the wider OPDP services by sharing information with other sites both through Fens progression and continuity of care pathway services for service users entering and leaving high secure services in line with agreed data sharing protocols To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other partnership professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan To undertake actuarial and clinical tools assessments, in addition to highly specialist knowledge and expertise to inform ongoing risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment To take a lead in working in partnership with other disciplines to help to establish and maintain Multi-Disciplinary Team working and Care Programme Approach, including. acting as care co-ordinator in all that is required of this role To communicate throughout all service delivery elements in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to others (e.g. service users family, carers), as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care in line with agreed data sharing protocols. To produce reports on service users, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers To attend and/chair OPDP meetings including but not limited to: MDT meetings, Prisoner Management meeting, programmes and governance meetings. Meetings will include partnership agencies and service user representatives To contribute to HMPPS process of reviews of service users, providing written or verbal reports as appropriate to the specific reviews. Such reviews include those that relate to suicidal behaviour (ACCT reviews), safeguarding, security status and sentence planning To work in partnership with other agencies and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate To collect and communicate specific information as required by the commissioners responsible for the OPDP services.

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