Senior Registered Psychologist – Psychology Services – PIPE - HMP Wymott - Clinical Lead

13605 - Senior Registered Psychologist – Psychology Services – PIPE - HMP Wymott - Clinical Lead

Employer:

Ministry of Justice

Location:

PR26 8LW

Pay:

£55,457 to £61,003 per year

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

01/03/2026

PIPE Clinical Lead, Senior Registered Forensic or Clinical Psychologist (Band
8) at HMP Wymott. Do you have a passion for reducing reoffending and relational working? Do you enjoy supporting other professionals to deliver positive and boundaried relationships with offenders to support rehabilitation? Then we have just the job.

• North West Psychology Services (NWPS) are seeking a Clinical Lead for a 60-bed main location progression PIPE (Psychologically Informed Planned Environment) at HMP Wymott, which is a Category C prison.

This post is full-time, 0.9 (WTE) based on the PIPE and 0.1 (WTE) in the wider NWPS team. This role is a permanent role within NWPS as a Senior Registered Psychologist. The post holder will be part of the NWPS team and as such will be expected to engage in all necessary duties, including but not limited to mandatory training and reporting requirements, as well as completing duties as required by the PIPE role, including regular attendance at in-person national meetings at various locations and regular in-person group clinical supervision.

Therefore flexibility to travel is a requirement of this post.

The post holder will be based on site on the PIPE at HMP Wymott for most of the working week with limited opportunity for flexible/ hybrid working due to the relational nature of the role. Placement as PIPE Clinical Lead would be collaboratively reviewed with the post holder after a period of not more than 3 years to ensure development needs of both the PIPE environment and the post holder are being met.

To be eligible, the post holder should have two years post registration experience at the point of taking up post. However, applications will be welcomed from psychologists who have a minimum of 18 months post registration experience; although they will not be able to formally take up the post until they have been registered for two years and subject to the necessary pre-employment checks.

The post holder will be working with complex individuals and staff and applying their experience and competence in psychology to reduce the risk of harm and re-offending by providing consultancy and delivering training for staff, undertaking complex risk assessments, conducting research and interventions, both as part of the PIPE Clinical Lead and generic NWPS roles. This is a non-operational job with line management responsibilities.

PIPE Context:
Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs) are part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway, which is jointly commissioned by the NHS and HMPPS. PIPEs are specifically designed, contained environments where staff members have additional training to develop an increased psychological understanding of their work. This understanding enables them to create an enhanced safe and supportive environment, which can facilitate the development of those who live and work there.

They are designed to have a particular focus on the environment in which they operate; actively recognising the importance and quality of relationships and interactions. They aim to maximise ordinary situations and to approach these in a psychologically informed way, paying attention to interpersonal difficulties, for example those issues that might be linked to personality disorder. PIPEs are not treatment interventions.

• The PIPEs model has been developed as an environmental approach to enhance the delivery of core work within Prison and Probation (community) settings, where additional psychological or ‘psychosocial’ considerations are required.

Principal Clinical Lead Duties:
The post holder will hold a strategic position as Clinical Lead for the PIPE service. They will have a key role in creating and maintaining a healthy psychosocial environment; ensuring that the unit adheres to the theoretical principles of the PIPE model. This will include design, delivery and oversight of the core components of the…