Head of Psychological Services - HMP Doncaster

Head of Psychological Services

HMP Doncaster

Full time, 40 hours, Permanent

Competitive Salary + Private Health Care and Company Car

Here at Serco, we’re looking for a Head of Psychological Services to join our innovative psychological services team at HMP Doncaster. HMP Doncaster is a Category B male establishment prison based in South Yorkshire. The operational capacity is 1145 prisoners who are serving a range of sentences including trial, remand, those awaiting sentence and convicted men serving up to life in prison. Joining our onsite team at this Category B prison, you’ll play a key role in delivering Psychological Services to our prisoners.

The Job Opportunity

As Principal Forensic Psychologist you’ll manage and provide strategic leadership of the Psychological Services Department in HMP Doncaster. 

This includes working as part of the Senior Management Team at HMP Doncaster. You will provide management and delivery of Psychological Services ensuring that psychological work is compliant with the BPS and HCPC codes of conduct.

You will largely excel in the area of individual prisoner risk assessment, intervention and safer custody (regarding both self-harm and violence reduction). You’ll have the opportunity and requirement to develop the Psychological Services Department at HMP Doncaster and will have responsibility providing direction and clinical decision making over Psychology Parole Report directions.

You will be working with complex prisoners and prison staff and applying their experience and competence in psychology to reduce the risk of harm and re-offending by undertaking complex risk assessment of prisoners, conducting research, providing consultancy and delivering training for staff and interventions (individual and group) for prisoners.

What we are looking for in our candidates

Essential:

The job holder will be Chartered with the BPS and Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC. Must have significant experience post-qualification.

As Head of Psychological Services, they will have experience of managing teams at a senior level and the ability to strategically lead and develop the delivery of psychology services. The post holder must have experience of supervising Forensic Psychologists in Training.

They must have experience of delivering and managing accredited Offending Behaviour Programmes and a proven track record in achieving KPTs.

As the Head of Psychosocial Services, they will develop strategies for the prison and should have experience of consulting to colleagues on the Senior Management Team SMT colleagues to bring psychological theory to prison practice and evidence-based working with different populations of prisoners.

It is important they have experience of conducting a range of psychological assessments including PCL-r, WAIS, SARA, HCR20, SRA, RSVP, as well as experience of audits.

What we offer:

Meaningful and vital work - Using specialist behavioural analysis you’ll contribute to the reintegration of ex-offenders back into society, helping them to address the factors that influence offending behaviour.

A world of opportunity - With prisons across the UK, Australia and New Zealand and a breadth of roles, you’ll be wholeheartedly supported with development and career progression. We actively fund psychologists with ongoing CPD activities.

• Competitive salary and pension contribution.
• Company car.
• Serco Benefits package.
• Serco discounts which include cinema, merlin entertainment and online shopping discounts, discounts on mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Free Parking onsite.
• A fantastic culture and supportive team where you’ll get the chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion. 
• Interesting and enjoyable work.
• Committed to professional and personal development with a wide range of training and coaching opportunities to expand your capabilities.
• A safe and supportive culture.
• Flexible working considered.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.  We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

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At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.  For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
 

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.