# Principal Psychologist

**Company**: Priorygroup
**Location**: Royston, Hertfordshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: Up to £36,895.20 per annum
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Part-time Principal Psychologist to join our team at Kneesworth House in Royston, Hertfordshire.

As a Principal Psychologist, you will play a pivotal role in patient recovery, leading psychological care and ensuring high standards of treatment.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead psychological care for designated wards and patients, including assessment, intervention, evaluation, risk management and care planning.

- Work autonomously within professional and service guidelines, maintaining high standards of clinical governance, record keeping and compliance.

- Supervise and support psychology staff, trainees and students, providing consultation, reflective practice, training and professional development.

- Work collaboratively with patients, carers, multidisciplinary teams and external agencies to support effective, person-centred care.

- Contribute to service development, audit, research and evidence-based practice, including oversight of referrals, waiting lists, KPIs and psychological practice governance.

**Skills, Knowledge & Expertise:**

- Essential: Completed and recognised postgraduate qualification leading to HCPC registration, current HCPC registration as a Psychologist, formal training in at least two therapeutic modalities, and demonstrated relevant post-qualification experience and competencies.

- Desirable: Experience of working in a forensic setting and/or with a forensic adult population who present with offending risk.

**Benefits:**

- Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra day's annual leave

- Enhanced maternity pay

- Contributory pension scheme

- Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology and Healthcare Cash Plan

- Access to development opportunities

- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel

- Leadership & management development

- Long service award

- Refer a friend bonuses

## Skills

### Required
- HCPC registration
- postgraduate qualification in Psychology
- therapeutic modalities

### Nice to have
- forensic setting experience
- working with forensic adult population

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