Senior Forensic Psychologist

Location: HMP Fosse Way
Salary: £63,462 per annum plus excellent benefits
Schedule: 40 hours per week, permanent

Ready to impact a better future?
As a Senior Forensic Psychologist in our HMP Fosse Way team, you’ll use your specialist expertise to deliver evidence‑based assessments, formulations, and interventions that support safer outcomes for people in our care and the wider community.

Your work will help reduce risk, support rehabilitation, and improve futures. You’ll play a key role in shaping high‑quality psychological services that make a positive and lasting impact on individuals and society.

What you’ll do as a Senior Forensic Psychologist
You’ll be entrusted to:

• Provide specialist psychological assessments using a range of tools, including psychometrics, structured observations, and semi‑structured interviews.
• Design and deliver evidence‑based psychological interventions tailored to diverse treatment needs.
• Offer expert advice, guidance, and consultation to colleagues to support effective formulation and treatment planning.
• Act as a professional witness in formal settings such as parole board hearings and multi‑agency meetings.
• Supervise Forensic Psychologists in Training in line with the British Psychological Society (BPS) code of conduct and ethical standards.
• Maintain up‑to‑date professional knowledge, meet CPD requirements, and ensure compliance with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards.

Does this sound like you?
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have…

• Chartered status with the British Psychological Society and registration as a Forensic Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Significant post‑qualification experience in secure settings.
• Experience supervising Forensic Psychologists in Training and a strong understanding of training routes within forensic psychology.
• Skilled report‑writing ability and confidence presenting evidence in formal settings.
• Good awareness and knowledge of the Offender Personality Disorder pathway and the experience and ability to make good clinical formulations of offenders with complex needs.
• Strong knowledge and experience in risk assessment tools (e.g., HCR‑20, SARA, PCL-R, IPDE).
• knowledge in research in Forensic Psychology and particularly that relating to the rehabilitation of offenders.

Discover all you need to keep growing
We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

• Holidays: Up to 25 days plus bank holidays
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco‑managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax‑free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.  We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

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Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. 

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.  For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
 

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.