Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist - Forensic Psych Services


Company:	Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Wickford, Essex, SS11 7FE
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	21 Sept 2026
Closing date:	4 Nov 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

1 x Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist Posts - (1.0wte)

This post is also open to newly qualified psychologists (at Band 7). If appointed at Band 7, the post-holder will be supported to work through a professional developmental programme towards Band 8a level as agreed with their line manager.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a HCPC Registered Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Practitioner Psychologist to join the multidisciplinary team at Brockfield House. This is a forensic inpatient unit providing low and medium secure services to adult males and females. This post may therefore include working across both medium and low secure male and female wards, as required. The teams provide effective clinical risk management and support the recovery pathway for service users with forensic histories and significant risk profiles. The post-holder will take on the role of psychologist, providing psychological assessments as well as individual and group interventions to service users presenting with a range of complex risk behaviours and forensic needs.

The role sits within the wider Forensic Psychological Services Department which comprises Clinical, Counselling and Forensic Psychologists, Trainee Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and Psychology Undergraduate placement students. EPUT's Secure Services operate across Essex, Bedfordshire and Luton. Video conferencing facilities between sites are also used to assist departmental communication.

BENEFITS AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

• Excellent Training and CPD opportunities for career development

• Season Ticket Loans

• NHS discounts for staff

• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas

• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

Day One Flexible Employer, the Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment.

As well as applicants from the UK, we encourage overseas candidates to apply for this role. We welcome diversity within our organisation. We can offer guidance for candidates coming from overseas about settling into working in the UK and we have a programme to provide a ‘buddy’ for you, i.e. a member of the Psychological Services Directorate who has also emigrated to join us at EPUT and can guide you through as you settle into your new home. We understand that, as an overseas candidate, you will have gone through excellent training in your country of origin and we encourage you to join us.

To learn more about working within our Services at EPUT, please view our recruitment videos, where members of the team share their experiences and insights into their roles and what it is like working within our Psychological Services, here at EPUT.

Please view our video link here:Psychological Services

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES CLINICAL

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of inpatients on the forensic wards based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi- structured interviews with clients and others involved in the client’s The post- holder will also be responsible for the safe use of any equipment used during assessments (e.g. test batteries).

2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems and employing evidence based

3. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialised psychological interventions for people on the forensic unit; families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

4. 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 or group.

Please see full 'Job Description' and 'Person Specification' attachments for full details of the role.

This advert closes on Monday 5 Oct 2026

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