Job Overview
Do you thrive on team working and providing collaborative complex formulations and consultation? Would you like to use these to help improve the wellbeing and recovery of individuals who are in the Criminal Justice System? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to join our established Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Service as maternity cover to the Eastbourne and Hastings Probation offices. The OPD Community Pathways Partnership provides consultation and training to probation staff working with high‑risk individuals who are screened into the pathway due to identification of personality difficulties or traits. The wider core OPD pathway provides a "wrap‑around" service for people on probation with a wide range of psychological difficulties. It anticipates that pathways for this client group are non‑linear, complex and often challenging. The model strives to provide consistency in the form of robust relational engagement between the Person on Probation and the probation officers (known as Community Offender Manager, COMs).
Main Duties
You will have extensive experience working with individuals with personality difficulties, providing training and offering supervision/consultation to health and/or criminal justice staff. Your role will support the COM with the range of skills and additional knowledge to help manage the challenges of this client group with complex personality presentations. This includes providing collaborative consultation and formulation, completed between you, the COM and, where applicable, the Person on Probation. You will provide monthly training to the probation team on a variety of aspects of personality difficulties, discuss challenging case presentations and assist staff to reflect on the impact of working with this group of people. Our team often uses schema and trauma‑informed approaches and we welcome applicants with an interest in this area. All roles within our team have access to national and local OPD training and continuing professional development is actively encouraged and supported.
Responsibilities
* Provide collaborative consultation and formulation to probation staff and the Person on Probation.
* Deliver monthly training to probation teams on complex personality difficulties.
* Discuss challenging case presentations and facilitate reflective practice among staff.
* Apply schema and trauma‑informed approaches as appropriate.
* Work autonomously alongside different teams and contribute to partnership working.
* Creative development of training materials and interventions to upskill probation staff.
Requirements
* Post‑graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK) as approved by the HCPC, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
* Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in‑patient settings.
* Demonstrated specialist experience gained post‑qualification, including a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally around 50 hours).
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity, and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of applying applied psychology in different cultural contexts and working within a multicultural framework.
Flexible Working
We are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or at different hours to those advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.
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