Overview
An exciting and unique opportunity within the Devon cluster prisons to provide psychological therapies into HMP Channings Wood as part of a 12 month maternity cover starting from January 2026. The post holder will hold their own clinical caseload and be responsible for supervising pre-qualified psychological therapists. Supervision skills training will be provided if required and you will receive clinical supervision from an experienced Lead Psychologist. Your progression is key, and you will be offered development sessions to support your career planning and professional development.
Contact
Please contact Dr Khyati Patel, Consultant Forensic Psychologist & Head of Psychological Therapies, Prison Mental Health Service, Devon Cluster, (Khyati.patel10@nhs.net) for an informal conversation or to know more about the role. We would consider applications from newly qualified psychological therapists or those close to obtaining qualified status.
Sponsorship
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Key responsibilities
* To provide direct psychological care (assessment and intervention) and support the delivery of psychologically informed care by all disciplines within the service.
* To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, including taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans with input from clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
* To provide line management to designated assistant psychologists.
Organisation context
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings, including community health care and mental health care. Our multidisciplinary teams work with a wide range of partners across the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector.
Clinical and Client Care
* To provide highly specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of community clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, including initiating planning and review of care plans with input from clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
* To provide culturally appropriate psychological therapy interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
* To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under care.
* To produce reports on clients in a timely manner that convey key findings of psychological assessment and treatment outcomes in an understandable way for recipients.
* To undertake psychometric and neuropsychological testing as appropriate, including selecting, administering, scoring and interpreting tests.
* To undertake risk assessment, risk monitoring and risk management for individual clients and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk.
* To work in partnership with other disciplines and maintain links with statutory and non-statutory agencies as appropriate.
* To ensure services are acceptable and accessible to diverse communities; implement outcome measurement as determined by the local service.
* Attend and contribute to psychology and directorate meetings and forums.
Important information and requirements
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID (must include 1 photographic ID)
* Proof of address documentation
* Non-UK passport holders: correct right to work documentation and Home Office Share code
* Address history: 5 years; police certificate in English for non-UK residents as applicable
* UK passport holders who have lived abroad for more than six months in the last three years: certificate of good conduct or overseas police check in English
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Nov 2025
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