About the job

Job summary

Please refer to Job Description

Job description

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Organisation Level

Senior Management - The job holder will be a Senior Manager and is accountable for the provision of leadership, direction, coordination, strategic decisions and risks for a large/complex establishment with managerial responsibility for all staff across their functions.  They are accountable for the budgets allocated to functions and the effective and efficient use of resources to ensure the security of establishment.

Overview

Job holders within this Group Profile will be report to Regional Lead and be responsible for managing delivery of services across a region. They will provide specialist knowledge, guidance and support on their area of specialism to establishments with the region.

The job holder will need to ensure that they implement robust systems to manage the services they provide, as they will often be distanced from front-line duties and will need to delegate appropriately. They will be required to robustly apply national policies in their area and draft local policies accordingly.

These are non operational roles but may be prisoner facing.

Characteristics

Typical tasks associated with this Group Profile include:

• Accountable for the delivery of the specialist psychological services as defined in the Service Delivery Agreements (SDA) for each prison within the cluster
• Accountable for ensuring psychological services are delivered in an ethical and professional manner, in line with the Health Professional Council (HPC) Standards of Proficiency, the HPC Standards of Performance and Ethics, and the British Psychological Services (BPS) Code of Ethics and Conduct
• Accountable for supporting the development of Forensic Psychological Services through the supervision of trainee Psychologists
• Accountable for contributing to research, consultancy and training activities as deemed appropriate by the Regional Psychologist
• Accountable for managing and providing professional supervision to forensic psychology staff across a range of locations
• Accountable for monitoring the work outputs within the psychology clusters against the Service Delivery Agreements(SDA)s to identify performance issues quickly and effect appropriate change to rectify them if needs be
• Liaise with Regional Forensic Psychology staff and HMPPS managers as
appropriate
• Accountable for undertaking strategic and developmental work in conjunction with the Regional Psychologist, other Cluster Managers in the Region and with the HMPPS Lead Psychologist
• Responsible for trouble shooting and supporting prison sites with delivery issues/accredited programmes/other interventions in conjunction with the head of Reducing reoffending and/or Programme Managers at delivery sites
• Accountable for managing the needs based prioritisation and allocation process for the provision of forensic psychological input into risk assessment and management of specific offenders within the region for their cluster.
• Accountable for supporting the delivery and management of the risk assessment and management of offenders for their cluster
• Accountable for collating information relating to the assessment and treatment needs of violent and sexual offenders in order to inform future commissioning of appropriate treatment/services
• Accountable for monitoring changes to prisoner populations and subsequent demand for psychological services within the Region within their cluster
• Work collaboratively within the HMPPS Region Forensic Psychology Service to
undertake good quality and timely risk assessments, personality assessments and ability assessments as directed/required
• Accountable for conducting and overseeing appropriate interventions with high
risk offenders as directed by the HMPPS Regional Psychologist
• Accountable for contributing to public protection and the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) process for suitable cases and in terms of attending and contributing to relevant meetings.
• As a trained Negotiation Advisor (NA), to provide input at live and simulated incidents within the Region or wider HMPPS (e.g. as Gold NA), as required
• Accountable for coordinating research, training and consultancy work within the cluster, and linking across clusters where necessary to limit duplication and increase cohesion of psychology work delivered
• Represents the Region Forensic Psychology Service at internal and external events and venues.
• Maintains own Continued Professional Development (CPD) and registration with the Health Professional Council (HPC)

Job Descriptions relating to this Group Profile

The job holder once in post will be in matched to a job description a sample list is attached below. The post is rotational so the job holder could during their career carry out the role of several job descriptions

• Cluster Psychology Lead : Psychology

Essential Skills/ Qualifications/ Accreditation/ Registration

The job holder will be a Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council and eligible to use a protected title. They are likely to also be a Chartered Psychologist and Full member of the appropriate division of the BPS if the post requires it. They will have experience of delivering psychological services directly, and through a managed team. They will have been registered for over two years and are eligible for Associate Fellowship of the British Psychological Society (BPS)

Hours of Work and Allowances

37 hour working week

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £59,623, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £16,634 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.