Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist Preceptorship - Tamarind Centre

Job overview

Band 7/8a Practitioner Psychologists (Forensic/Counselling/ Clinical) with Preceptorship

Are you a motivated and compassionate Practitioner Psychologist seeking a meaningful and impactful role within forensic mental health? We warmly invite you to apply to join our dedicated team working within our Secure Care and Offender Health (SCOH) Division.

This role will initially be based full-time at Tamarind (1.0 WTE) for the first year, with an exciting opportunity thereafter to share your time across another service within the division to broaden your experience and expertise, whilst helping you maintain good mental health. The split will be developed collaboratively to best meet your professional development and the needs of the division.

As part of our team, you will work alongside a multi-disciplinary group of professionals providing safe, containing, and connected psychological care and advice. Your focus will be on supporting individuals with complex presentations, many of whom have experienced trauma, neglect, and adverse life experiences alongside offending histories. Together, we support service users to understand their mental health and offending behaviours within a recovery-focused framework.

Main duties of the job

We seek a Practitioner Psychologist who

Brings integrity, warmth, and robustness in working with a diverse and complex population.

Has a passion for collaborative, cross-disciplinary partnership working, embedding trauma-informed and recovery-focused practices

Is eager to contribute to the evolving culture of care, balancing therapeutic work with effective risk management.

Is interested in using and developing skills across a range of psychological models, including CBT, CAT, EMDR, DBT, Compassion Focused Therapy, Schema Therapy, and ACT

Has familiarity with structured clinical judgement tools and psychometric assessments

Can compassionately challenge systems and colleagues to foster continual improvement and psychological mindedness across the service.

Values authentic, down-to-earth, open communication and embraces the rich diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives within our team.

We warmly encourage newly qualified Band 7 practitioners interested in forensic settings to apply. We offer structured preceptorship and supervision to support your journey towards the full Band 8A role over time.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to service development, research, and the pursuit of therapeutic excellence within a supportive and inclusive environment. To support your professional growth and well-being, you will engage in model-specific group supervision as well as regular clinical and managerial supervision..

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

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