The closing date is 19 May 2026
An opportunity for a registered practitioner psychologist (Clinical/Forensic/Counselling) who wishes to develop forensic skills to join the Adult Mental Health Forensic Psychology Service (AFPS). You will work within the Community Forensic Team (CFT) in Hertfordshire, which serves people who have offended and are at high risk of further offending, whether stepping down from secure services or referred from community or other inpatient wards. The CFT works closely with community teams, secure services and other agencies involved in the lives of service users.
The CFT is currently expanding due to increased funding from the East of England Provider Collaborative, enabling enhanced services for the highest risk users, facilitating their step‑down from secure services and supporting them in the community. This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and expand the service.
Main duties of the job
You will work with a complex group of service users, both directly and through consultation to other professionals, in a person‑centred and positive way to manage their offending behaviour and aid change in their lives. This involves working with individuals while they are detained, through discharge and into their own communities and social networks, potentially having a lasting impact beyond the individual.
The CFT is a core member of the Hertfordshire MAPPA; you may represent the CFT and HPFT at these meetings and liaise between teams within HPFT and other agencies.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our staff of over 4,500 deliver health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, in community and inpatient settings. Choice, independence and equality underpin our services, embedded in our Trust values:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job responsibilities
You will be a qualified Clinical or Forensic Psychologist with experience working with offenders. You will be skilled in assessing and formulating risk, communicating formulations and management plans sensitively, and providing interventions to forensic service users individually and/or in groups.
As a development post, you will have opportunities to further develop skills through training and pursue special interests, working within a personal development plan discussed in supervision.
You will work across Hertfordshire and occasionally assess service users in out‑of‑area placements or prisons. You must be a car driver (unless a disability under the Equality Act 2010 prevents you from driving). Applications for flexible working are welcomed.
Please contact Dr Sarah Flury for further information or to arrange a visit: s.flury@nhs.net.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or chartered forensic psychologist status
- Training/experience in supervision of other psychologists
- Further training in the use of assessment tools pertinent to offending behaviour (e.g. SRP, RSVP & HCR‑20)
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
- Previous experience working with clients with offending histories, including complex risk assessments
- Experience working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, maintaining professionalism amid highly emotive or distressing situations, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
- Experience applying clinical/forensic psychology in different cultural contexts
- Previous experience within the criminal justice system
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for difficult to treat groups
- Knowledge of research methodology, design and complex, multivariate data analysis
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for work with mentally disordered offenders
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups
- Skills in working with trauma‑related difficulties
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975; a Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required to screen for any previous convictions.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
£51,657 to £67,020 a year, pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS)
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An opportunity for a registered practitioner psychologist (Clinical/Forensic/Counselling) who wishes to develop forensic skills to join the Adult Mental Health Forensic Psychology Service (AFPS). You will work within the Community Forensic Team (CFT) in Hertfordshire, which serves people who have offended and are at high risk of further offending, whether stepping down from secure services or referred from community or other inpatient wards. The CFT works closely with community teams, secure services and other agencies involved in the lives of service users.
The CFT is currently expanding due to increased funding from the East of England Provider Collaborative, enabling enhanced services for the highest risk users, facilitating their step‑down from secure services and supporting them in the community. This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and expand the service.
Main duties of the job
You will work with a complex group of service users, both directly and through consultation to other professionals, in a person‑centred and positive way to manage their offending behaviour and aid change in their lives. This involves working with individuals while they are detained, through discharge and into their own communities and social networks, potentially having a lasting impact beyond the individual.
The CFT is a core member of the Hertfordshire MAPPA; you may represent the CFT and HPFT at these meetings and liaise between teams within HPFT and other agencies.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our staff of over 4,500 deliver health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, in community and inpatient settings. Choice, independence and equality underpin our services, embedded in our Trust values:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job responsibilities
You will be a qualified Clinical or Forensic Psychologist with experience working with offenders. You will be skilled in assessing and formulating risk, communicating formulations and management plans sensitively, and providing interventions to forensic service users individually and/or in groups.
As a development post, you will have opportunities to further develop skills through training and pursue special interests, working within a personal development plan discussed in supervision.
You will work across Hertfordshire and occasionally assess service users in out‑of‑area placements or prisons. You must be a car driver (unless a disability under the Equality Act 2010 prevents you from driving). Applications for flexible working are welcomed.
Please contact Dr Sarah Flury for further information or to arrange a visit: s.flury@nhs.net.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or chartered forensic psychologist status
- Training/experience in supervision of other psychologists
- Further training in the use of assessment tools pertinent to offending behaviour (e.g. SRP, RSVP & HCR‑20)
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
- Previous experience working with clients with offending histories, including complex risk assessments
- Experience working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, maintaining professionalism amid highly emotive or distressing situations, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
- Experience applying clinical/forensic psychology in different cultural contexts
- Previous experience within the criminal justice system
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for difficult to treat groups
- Knowledge of research methodology, design and complex, multivariate data analysis
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for work with mentally disordered offenders
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups
- Skills in working with trauma‑related difficulties
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975; a Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required to screen for any previous convictions.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
£51,657 to £67,020 a year, pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS)
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