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Forensic Psychology

Employer
Scottish Prison Service
Location
Scotland
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
19 Oct 2024
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Discipline
Forensic
Level
Specialist
Contract Type
Full Time, Permanent

Job Details

Join us to deliver

  • Across different prisons to a wide variety of population demographics
  • Highly specialist psychological risk assessments
  • Treatment manage and deliver high intensity offending behaviour programmes
  • Psychological therapies
  • Psychological research and evaluation
  • Training and consultancy
  • National objectives relating to security and criminal justice agendas

Benefits Include

  • From 27.1% employer pension contribution
  • On-going CPD opportunities
  • Working week Mon - Fri with the option of hybrid & flexible working
  • 35 days annual leave (increasing to 42 after 5 years)
  •  Progression opportunities

Who we are

  • Assistant Psychologists
  • Forensic Psychologists in Training
  • Practitioner Psychologists
  • Principal Psychologists 
  • Consultant Psychologists

Entry Requirements

  • MSc in Forensic Psychology required for Assistant Psychologist and Forensic Psychologist in Training roles
  • Applicants for all other roles should be registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologists

 

Company

Our principal objective is to contribute to making Scotland Safer by Protecting the Public and Reducing Reoffending. The SPS aims to achieve this by ensuring delivery of secure custody, safe and ordered prisons, decent standards of care and opportunities for prisoners to develop in a way that help them reintegrate into the community on release.

 

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