This Specialist Psychologist post sits within the Multi-Agency Stalking Partnership, a specialist team providing consultation, formulation and intervention for criminal justice service users who have engaged in stalking. The work centres on psychological intervention with stalking perpetrators and the professionals who manage them. Sessions take place across NHS and non-NHS premises such as probation offices, with some virtual home working. Previous forensic mental health experience is required; stalking expertise is not, as training is given.
What the job involves
- Provide expert consultation, formulation and intervention for criminal justice service users who have engaged in stalking
- Adapt known psychological principles and techniques to develop interventions and approaches for managing offenders in this field
- Ensure intervention and management of people who have offended is psychologically informed
- Work clinically with perpetrators who present with personality issues and mental health needs
- Work to reduce repeat offending and improve the psychological wellbeing of service users
- Work to increase access to services
- Help build a criminal justice workforce with the knowledge, skills and confidence to work with this population
- Maintain continual professional development in working with stalking
- Work in regular contact with Probation, Police and victim advocacy colleagues
What’s required
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
Experience
- Previous experience of working within forensic mental health services
What’s offered
- Comprehensive training in working with stalking, including the Stalking Risk Profile and relevant therapies
- Opportunities to develop skills and career in the psychology of stalking
- Virtual home working as part of the working week
- Flexible working arrangements considered
- Personal wellbeing valued by the employer
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
