Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

Come and work on the beautiful Isle of Wight! We can offer a rewarding role in a challenging environment, as well as access to lots of blue and green spaces to help maintain your own wellbeing.

Are you interested in working directly with people in custody, as well as working with the systems around them?

This role will involve making a positive difference to the lives of the men in prison. HMP Isle of Wight was created in 2009 as an amalgamation of HMPs Parkhurst and Albany. The prison now holds just over 1000 men across the two sites. Many men have complex trauma histories and there are varied opportunities within the role to develop your own clinical and research interests in working with this client group.

You will provide consultation and formulation to colleagues, as well as providing some direct clinical work appropriate to the banding of the role.

For this post, MPFT will offer:

A 20% ‘welcome to MPFT’ bonus; 10% on joining us and 10% after a period of 12 months service. An allowance can be offered which will enable the individual to pay for yearly professional registration fees up to £120.00 per year A contribution for relocation fees is also available upon application.

Main duties of the job

• Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of male clients with severe and enduring conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
• Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
• Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high physical risks inherent in the client group
• Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients’ mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers
• Implements a wide range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
• Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and makes decisions about treatment options.
• Provides expert psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to client’s diagnosis, formulation and intervention plan.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details. A summary is provided below:

• To lead a period of development and review for health-related psychological provision at HMP Isle of Wight. It will involve the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients across all sectors of care.
• To be responsible for or carrying out audit, policy and service development and research activities in accordance with this.
• To propose and implement policy and service development changes within the area served by the specialism.
• To offer training, consultation, and where appropriate, clinical supervision to both Trust and other agency service providers.
• To contribute to local doctoral training programme(s) including the provision of clinical placements, teaching, research supervision and membership of the doctoral course management boards as required.
• To contribute to strategic developments in the client service area, the wider organisation and to work closely and integratively with the organisations providing the custodial and educational aspects of the service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the specialism and to ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical supervision and support of all other psychologists within the specialism for which the post holder has designated professional responsibility.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.