Specialist Forensic/Clinical Psychologist

Overview

You will deliver psychological assessments and interventions for children and young people in a secure setting, supporting staff and developing trauma-informed care within a multidisciplinary team. You’ll lead on formulations, supervise trainees, and contribute to service development and staff training, helping reduce escalating behaviours and promote mental health in a high-support environment. The role sits within the Children’s and Young People’s Complex Care Service, with a clear impact on safeguarding and youth justice outcomes. This is a chance to shape a new secure unit and advance evidence-based psychology across services.

Pay / Benefits

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Salary sacrifice scheme discounts

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments and interventions for young people in the secure unit
• Develop formulations and deliver trauma-informed, evidence-based therapies
• Offer group and 1:1 supervision and consultation to multidisciplinary staff and trainees
• Lead on staff training related to complex trauma and psychology-informed practice
• Support service development through research, audits and outcome measures
• Collaborate with Local Authority and health colleagues to coordinate care and reduce escalation of behaviours
• Contribute to policy development and reflective practice across teams
• Produce psychology input for safeguarding and youth justice contexts

Key requirements

• BPS accredited Honours degree in Psychology or equivalent
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (BPS/HCPC accredited)
• Registered with HCPC
• Post-qualification experience with children and families
• Experience with assessments for harmful sexual behaviour and youth justice context (desirable)
• Additional training in working with children and families (desirable)
• Clinical supervision training for doctorate trainees (desirable)

• trauma-informed approach
• multidisciplinary collaboration
• effective supervision and teaching
• psychological assessments (intelligence, memory, executive functions)
• multifactorial formulations
• CBT and systemic approaches (or equivalent)

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