Senior Registered Forensic Psychologist

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. Our mission is clear: to create an environment that empowers, inspires, and supports individuals to re-enter society with hope, purpose, and a life plan. To achieve this, we will set a culture of rehabilitation and restoration underpinned by integrity and high expectations.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Registered Forensic Psychologist to work at HMP Millsike, a brand‑new Category C Resettlement Prison in York. We are looking for a motivated, compassionate and experienced Senior Registered Forensic Psychologist with a passion for working in custodial settings, supporting the men in our care and the wider system. The successful applicant will join a small, friendly and supportive team who are enthusiastic about developing psychological thinking and services across the prison.

Responsibilities:

• To support the development of psychological services with HMP Millsike, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements, company policies and procedures and HMPPS standards, policies and procedures where applicable.
• To undertake evidence based and high quality risk and psychological assessments including HCR-20, RSVP, SARA, SAM, WAIS, when directed by various stakeholders.
• Preparing Psychological Risk Assessment reports in line with parole board directions and attending oral hearings as an expert witness.
• Delivery of psychological interventions as and when required and in line with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards.
• To provide consultation and supervision to the Treatment Manager and the wider Interventions Facilitation team for our accredited offending behaviour programme, Building Choices.
• To provide oversight, supervision and where necessary act as an Additional Supervisor to Forensic Psychologists in Training, ensuring their work is compliant with HCPC and BPS code of practice and guidelines.
• To provide consultancy to staff within our Safer Custody, Violence reduction, Reducing Reoffending and Offender Management Unit functions.
• Develop and deliver training for staff as and when required to ensure the maintenance of a trauma‑informed, restorative and rehabilitative culture within the prison.
• Contribute to the development of research and best practice in reducing re‑offending and staff well‑being.

Essential Experience And Qualifications:

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

Preferred Experience:

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

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 our subsidised staff canteen.
• Eligibility for a Blue Light Discount Card.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Christian Kalugin at Chris.Kalugin@mitie.com.