Principal Psychologist

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Psychologist to join our integrated Mental Health team at HMP Garth.

Salary

This is a part time role. You’ll receive an annual salary of between £70,000 and £80,000 per annum depending on experience FTE, which will be pro rata for the part time hours.

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course

• Competency framework

• Regional and national career development opportunities

• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs

As a Principal Psychologist, your responsibilities will vary. You will:

Support the development and embedding of a trauma-informed mental health service model across sites

Offer clinical support and oversight to the Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT)

Undertake psychological assessments

Support complex multi-disciplinary formulations

Deliver psychological interventions to cases of complexity

Deliver and oversee 1:1 and group intervention as part of the Trauma Informed 'Making Sense' Programme

Deliver teaching and training to healthcare and prison staff where required

Contribute to the development of audit, service evaluation and research profile as appropriate

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

It doesn’t stop there … we also offer:

Discounts on shopping and leisure activities

Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development

24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated

we act with integrity

we embrace diversity

we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Qualified clinical, counselling or forensic psychologist and registered with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist;

Postgraduate qualification/training in at least one specific mode of psychological therapy relevant to people with severe and long standing mental health difficulties eg: CBT, Systemic /family therapy, Mindfulness based therapies, CAT, DBT, Mentalisation, Schema Therapy

Critical awareness of a range of psychological models applicable to delivering psychological approaches in remand prisons .

A working knowledge of current good practice and recent government policies relating to health services and professional guidelines;