Senior Registered Forensic Psychologist
Mitie Care & Custody (C&C) is driven by a bold vision: to establish HMP Millsike as a place of restoration and rehabilitation, where prisoners can unlock their full potential and make meaningful, positive changes in their lives. We are excited by the opportunity Millsike presents: a blank canvas on which we can paint a bright future for our prisoners. Our mission is clear: to create an environment that empowers, inspires, and supports individuals to re-enter society with hope, purpose, and a life plan. To achieve this, we will set a culture of rehabilitation and restoration underpinned by integrity and high expectations. Prisoners will experience a dramatic shift from traditional prison environments. Millsike will be a vibrant, bustling community, teeming with industry, activity and opportunities for personal growth. Above all, we will ensure our approach offers a deep sense of safety/respect, through a supportive, uplifting environment, that helps prisoners to see their potential and that unlocks a brighter future for all.
Job objectives and responsibilities:
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Registered Forensic Psychologist to work at HMP Millsike, a brand-new Category C Resettlement Prison in York. We are looking for a motivated, compassionate and experienced Senior Registered Forensic Psychologist with a passion for working in custodial settings, supporting the men in our care and the wider system. The successful applicant will join a small, friendly and supportive team who are enthusiastic about developing psychological thinking and services across the prison. Applicants will need a strong sense of leadership as a psychology representative across the wider multidisciplinary team and the ability work autonomously within preferred psychological models of practice. The role will also support the wider vision for HMP Millsike: establishing a positive, rehabilitative and restorative culture, ensuring that the direction of travel in relation to Reducing Reoffending aligns with best practice and is evidence based in relation to behaviour change, behaviour management and appropriate interventions relevant to population demographics.
You will work directly with prisoners, staff and various stakeholders and will be provided with clinical supervision from the Principal Psychologist. You will be responsible for the following:
• To support the development of psychological services with HMP Millsike, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements, company policies and procedures and HMPPS standards, policies and procedures where applicable.
• To undertake evidence based and high quality risk and psychological assessments including HCR-20, RSVP, SARA, SAM, WAIS, when directed by various stakeholders.
• Preparing Psychological Risk Assessment reports in line with parole board directions and attending oral hearings an expert witness.
• Delivery of psychological interventions as and when required and in line with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards.
• To provide consultation and supervision to the Treatment Manager and the wider Interventions Facilitation team for our accredited offending behaviour programme, Building Choices.
• To provide oversight, supervision and where necessary act as an Additional Supervisor to Forensic Psychologists in Training, ensuring their work is compliant with HCPC and BPS code of practice and guidelines.
• To provide consultancy to staff within our Safer Custody, Violence reduction, Reducing Reoffending and Offender Management Unit functions.
• Develop and deliver training for staff as and when required to ensure the maintenance of a trauma-informed, restorative and rehabilitative culture with the in prison.
• Contribute to the development of research and best practice in reducing re-offending and staff well-being.
Person specification
Essential Experience and Qualifications:
· Post Graduate doctoral level training in Forensic Psychology.
· Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
· Experience of completing risk and psychological assessments such as HCR-20, RSVP, SARA and WAIS and /or other cognitive and personality assessments.
· Experience of completing psychological risk assessment reports in a formal setting such as for the parole board.
· Experience of acting as an expert witness at parole hearings.
· Experience of working with offenders and delivering group or individual interventions using psychological models.
· Have good knowledge of psychological theories and models related to sexual and violent offending including intimate partner violence.
· Experience of providing consultancy to a variety of stakeholders
· Experience of providing supervision to other professionals including non-psychological professions.
· Experiencing of conducting research
Preferred Experience:
· Experience of working as a Registered Forensic Psychologist within a custodial setting and providing consultancy to staff within a prison setting.
· Experience of providing oversight and supervision to Forensic Psychologists in Training.
· Knowledge and experience of delivering HMPPS accredited offending behaviour programmes.
· Eligible to apply for Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (RAPPS)
· Eligible to apply to become a Co-ordinating supervisor on the BPS Stage 2 Qualification in Forensic Psychology.
Additional Benefits
- Ongoing development and career progression opportunities
- Supportive and inclusive team environment
- Health and wellbeing support services
- 33 days annual leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
- Free onsite parking, including EV charging points
- Free access to onsite gym facilities
- Free meal during shifts from our subsidised staff canteen
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Discount Card