Assistant Psychologist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Highweek; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health organization is seeking an Assistant Psychologist to support psychological care at HMP Channings Wood. The role involves conducting assessments, delivering therapeutic services under supervision, and contributing to multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should have a relevant psychology degree and be motivated to improve lives through mental health initiatives. The position offers NHS benefits and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Support and enhance professional psychological care of offenders.
• Assist in conducting psychological assessments and interventions.
• Engage in data collection, analysis, and reporting for clinical audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments under supervision.
• Assist in the delivery of care plans for psychological treatment.
• Coordinate therapeutic groups and clinical projects.

Skills

Compassion

Knowledgeable

Motivated

Ability to conduct psychological assessments

Education

Relevant degree in psychology

Tools

Statistical software

Psychological testing tools

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

We are currently expanding recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join our friendly team at HMP Channings Wood

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

As part of our mental health team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Interviews will be held in person at HMP Channings Wood on Monday, 8 nd September 2025. Please note that all interviews will be conducted face to face and not via Microsoft Teams

**Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post**

As an Assistant Psychologist at HMP Channings Wood you will be supporting and enhancing the professional psychological care of offenders within the service. This will include; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures and to assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching.

Specifically, you will provide psychological therapy services to service users residing in HMP Channings Wood. The assistant psychologist will be part of the integrated mental health team within the prisons, which provide a range of psychological services from self-help literature to individual and group therapies. The integrated mental health team work within a trauma informed care model which includes supporting prison colleagues by providing teaching, training and consultation.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

Our wider services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

Were Kind

Were Fair

We Listen

We Care

Management responsibilities

To assist in the design and implementation of service development projects with the service as required.

To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed

Clinical

To undertake psychological assessments of clients applying psychological theory, including neuro-psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the prison setting.

To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups or clinical projects.

To work with other staff to assess or support service users in the prison and contribute to multidisciplinary discussions or care guidelines as agreed with the psychologist/psychological therapist providing supervision.

To assist in the development of a psychological based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place

Research

To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.

To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.

To create graphs or charts to collate or summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes.

To assist in producing visual or material or user-friendly information for interventions with clients

Communication

In common with all assistant psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.

To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.

To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.

To contribute to the training and support of other staff in psychological care.

Important Information, Please Read

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You Will Need To Provide

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited .

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website ( http://www.fco.gov.uk/en ).

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