Job Description

To assist the nominated intervention lead with the development, delivery and maintenance of evidence based offending intervention initiatives for a high risk and complex group of individuals, with such initiatives to include individual and group therapy and to account for the developmentand refinement of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.2. To provide complex, sensitive and contentious information to service users presenting with a range of offence related risks, medium to high risk for aggression, attending to the principles of motivational interviewing and feedback, and managing personal exposure to highly distressing oremotional circumstances /material.3. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for clients referred to the team for offencerelated difficulties, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests,self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.4. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of a service users offending difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their complex problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.5.



To deliver psychological intervention to service users, as required and directed by the lead. 6. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment and management plans of service users, and to monitor and evaluateprogress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.7. To communicate psychological assessments and formulations via a written psychological report, as and when directed by the nominated psychology lead.