Specialist Clinical​/Counselling Forensic Psychologist

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is recruiting a full time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist for the Forensic Support Service. Closing date: 11 March 2026.

We are excited to be recruiting a full time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist for our Forensic Support Service with a background in community and forensic work. The postholder will be passionate about working with patients with complex presentations, providing clinical and professional leadership, supporting recovery‑focused outcomes for individuals with a forensic history.

The service is based across Herefordshire and Worcestershire, improving the interface between specialised services and community services, enhancing the efficiency of transitions of care for patients with significant risk histories and improving patient flow through the care pathway.

The aim of the service is to contribute to the successful transition of forensic patients out of secure inpatient services and support their continued recovery and risk management in the community. This is an exciting opportunity, for an experienced psychologist, to help shape and develop the service.

The service runs Monday‑Friday 09:00 – 17:00 hr and the ability to travel across both counties is essential to this post.

Part‑time hours will also be considered for this post.

• Conduct specialist assessments, 1:1 and group therapy and clinical/risk formulation to support patient rehabilitation.
• Offer advice and consultation to reduce the likelihood of escalation of risks and prevent avoidable (re) admissions.
• Contribute to the MDT forensic consultation process.
• Engage in clinical audit and quality improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to training in relation to psychological concepts, interventions and tools.
• Clinically supervise other psychological professionals in other teams.
• Autonomous working is required in the development of the role and the successful candidate will be required to build strong working relationships with colleagues from a broad range of forensic, acute and community disciplines, both within and externally to the Trust, to understand service needs and support the development of the new service. Use of evaluation and quality improvement methodologies will be an important part of service development and monitoring of outcomes.

Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on a day‑to‑day basis.

Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.

Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves, the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.

Be responsible and accountable for ensuring the development and delivery of a highly specialist psychology service.

Ensure that psychological services are based on best clinical and professional practice, in accordance with the objectives of the Trust and the Service Delivery Unit and/or Specialty.

Hold a specialist caseload of patients who have offended, are in danger of offending, or who are victims of criminal offending, as well as offering generic psychological interventions to community services in agreed localities.

In collaboration with the Service Lead for Psychological Interventions and with the specialty lead, develop and support the implementation of psychological interventions and psychologically informed practice within the wider service.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work‑life…