Senior Registered Psychologist – Psychology Services – Youth Custody Services - HMYOI Feltham

Job Title:

Senior Registered Psychologist

Location:

HMP YCS Feltham, London

Job

Position Type:
Permanent

Number of positions available: 2

This role is a non-operational, line‑management position with responsibilities focused on risk assessment, supervision, research and clinical services for youth and adult populations within the HMP YCS system.

• Conduct full case reviews on difficult cases and advise on sentence planning.
• Specialise in delivering psychology services in therapeutic community wings or PIPEs.
• Lead, supervise and facilitate group sessions.
• Offer professional opinion to multi‑functional teams and produce offender reports (e.g., risk, parole, high‑risk or vulnerable offenders).
• Develop strategies for sexual offending and indeterminate sentence assessment and intervention.
• Deliver and supervise complex programmes, such as healthy sex programmes.
• Provide consultancy support to senior management and other staff on psychology services and outcomes.
• Conduct relevant research, including data gathering and analysis.
• Act as a professional or expert witness in parole board hearings and court proceedings.
• Provide professional supervision to trainee forensic psychology staff and other intervention staff.
• Assist in national specialist tasks such as training on courses related to the specialist discipline.
• Ensure staff are developed in accordance with key competencies and gateways and maintain consistency across the team.
• Lead on risk assessment and risk management of complex, vulnerable or high‑risk offenders, providing feedback to individuals and stakeholders.
• Contribute to offender management processes, including ACCT and self‑harm or personality disorder assessments.
• Provide consultancy to wider teams and advise on complex cases at multiple sites.
• Act as a negotiation adviser where suitable and experience has been demonstrated.
• Maintain own CPD requirements and professional standards, including HCPC registration.
• Provide psychological contributions to broader service activities such as therapeutic communities or regime activities.
• Produce psychological reports for life‑sentence convictions within the required timeframe.
• Manage relevant accreditation audit baselines.
• Line‑manage trainee psychologists.

• Professional background in Psychology, preferably with a Chartered Psychologist title and full membership of the relevant BPS division.
• Registered Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC and entitled to use a protected title.
• Experience providing clinical supervision and completed training in evidence‑based treatment models.
• At least 18 months of post‑registration experience, with a preference for two years; candidates are eligible once they have completed the required registration period.
• Experience working with children involved in the youth justice system is desirable.

• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

IT will provide employment opportunities to all suitably qualified applicants, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity, religion or belief, nationality, race, or sexual orientation.