Principal Psychologist

• High-Quality Psychology Service: Ensuring the provision of a high-quality psychology service to Community Forensic Services. This involves strong, effective leadership, engagement with service users, carers and partners, and a trauma-informed approach to specialist forensic consultation, assessment and intervention within the community.
• Coordination and Direction: Co-coordinate the planning and organisation of specialist psychological services within the locality area, in agreement with the Clinical Lead/Operational Manager. Provide clinical supervision, offer advice, and consult on service users' psychological care and risk management to colleagues.
• Collaboration and Expertise: Work alongside other teams and agencies, providing expert guidance for people accessing the teams services. Demonstrate advanced psychological skills, deliver high-quality care, and contribute to reviewing, developing and monitoring operational/clinical policy.
• Research and Development: Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development within the relative service area.

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent accredited by the BPS
• Additional short specialist courses with demonstrable impact on practice.
• Current HCPC Registration

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision

Essential

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
• Evidence of resiliency when working with challenging client groups