Location
Central London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£59,740 per annum

About the Role
Mitie Care & Custody (C&C) is driven by a bold vision to establish HMP Millsike as a place of restoration and rehabilitation, where prisoners can unlock their full potential and make meaningful, positive changes in their lives. HMP Millsike is a brand-new Category C Resettlement Prison in York, designed to create an environment that empowers, inspires, and supports individuals to re-enter society with hope, purpose, and a life plan. The prison will foster a culture of rehabilitation and restoration underpinned by integrity and high expectations, offering a safe, respectful, and supportive environment that promotes personal growth and a brighter future for all.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, compassionate, and experienced Senior Registered Forensic Psychologist passionate about working in custodial settings. You will join a small, friendly, and supportive team enthusiastic about developing psychological thinking and services across the prison. The role requires strong leadership as a psychology representative within the wider multidisciplinary team and the ability to work autonomously within preferred psychological models of practice.

You will support the wider vision of establishing a positive, rehabilitative, and restorative culture at HMP Millsike, ensuring that approaches to reducing reoffending are evidence-based and aligned with best practice in behaviour change, behaviour management, and relevant interventions. You will work directly with prisoners, staff, and various stakeholders and receive clinical supervision from the Principal Psychologist.

Key responsibilities include supporting the development of psychological services ensuring compliance with contractual, company, and HMPPS standards; undertaking evidence-based risk and psychological assessments such as HCR-20, RSVP, SARA, SAM, and WAIS; preparing psychological risk assessment reports for parole board directions and attending oral hearings as an expert witness; delivering psychological interventions in line with HCPC standards; providing consultation and supervision to the Treatment Manager and Interventions Facilitation team; overseeing and supervising Forensic Psychologists in Training; offering consultancy to Safer Custody, Violence Reduction, Reducing Reoffending, and Offender Management Unit staff; developing and delivering staff training to maintain a trauma-informed, restorative, and rehabilitative culture; and contributing to research and best practice development in reducing reoffending and staff well-being.

Additional Benefits
Ongoing development and career progression opportunities
Supportive and inclusive team environment
Health and wellbeing support services
33 days annual leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
Free onsite parking, including EV charging points
Free access to onsite gym facilities
Free meal during shifts from subsidised staff canteen
Eligibility for a Blue Light Discount Card

Experience
- Post Graduate doctoral level training in Forensic Psychology
- Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Experience completing risk and psychological assessments such as HCR-20, RSVP, SARA, SAM, WAIS, and other cognitive and personality assessments
- Experience preparing psychological risk assessment reports for formal settings such as parole boards
- Experience acting as an expert witness at parole hearings
- Experience working with offenders and delivering group or individual interventions using psychological models
- Good knowledge of psychological theories and models related to sexual and violent offending, including intimate partner violence
- Experience providing consultancy to a variety of stakeholders
- Experience providing supervision to other professionals, including non-psychological professions
- Experience conducting research

Preferred Experience
- Experience working as a Registered Forensic Psychologist within a custodial setting and providing consultancy to prison staff
- Experience providing oversight and supervision to Forensic Psychologists in Training
- Knowledge and experience delivering HMPPS accredited offending behaviour programmes
- Eligibility to apply for Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (RAPPS)
- Eligibility to apply as a Co-ordinating Supervisor on the BPS Stage 2 Qualification in Forensic Psychology

About You
You are a motivated and compassionate professional with strong leadership skills, able to work autonomously and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams. You are committed to supporting rehabilitation and behaviour change in custodial settings and are passionate about contributing to a positive, restorative culture that benefits prisoners, staff, and the wider community.

Qualifications
- Doctoral level postgraduate training in Forensic Psychology
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)