Psychologist
Hours: Part time - 3 days per week
Salary: Up to £53,600 (£7,500 joining bonus)
Location: East, West, Central and North Midlands
We are collaborating with a private client, a rapidly expanding provider of safe and nurturing children's homes, specialist education, and supported accommodation across England. Established in 2007, the company has grown to a team of over 1,000 colleagues.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Psychologist to join their team.
Please note a driving licence and access to a car is required. Tier 2 sponsorship cannot be provided for this role.
Duties and responsibilities for the Psychologist are:
- Deliver evidence based therapeutic and psychologically led care which conforms to the standards outlined by the HCPC and BPS under supervision
- Undertake comprehensive psychological assessments and write psychological reports for children and young people in the care of Horizon Care & Education
- Develop, write and regularly review/update therapeutic care plans for children and young people in residential care and education
- Manage a limited caseload for individual intervention, providing specialist psychological input to young people and teams in residential care and educational settings
- Contribute to the development of a therapeutically informed service across education and residential teams.
Minimum requirements for the Psychologist are:
- Experience of working with Children and Young People or relevant demonstrable transferable skills is essential
- Post-doctoral knowledge of applied psychology including developmental lifespan psychology, models of psychopathology
- Experiencing in the assessment and management of self-harm / risk / crisis management / safeguarding
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Practitioner doctorate or equivalent accepted by the British Psychological Society as qualifying the person to work as a clinical/ counselling/ forensic psychologist/relevant qualification to enable HCPC registration
- Knowledge of Therapeutic practices
- Experience of working with sensory strategies
- A desire to support services through embedding therapeutic practice
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing
- Ability to work autonomously with the support from individual and peer supervision
- Ability to role model behaviours and attitudes in line with organisational values
- A sound understanding of Microsoft Office components, including knowledge of Excel, Teams and SharePoint
- Full UK driving licence and use of your own vehicle
Benefits:
- Competitive pay rates
- Christmas bonus
- Blue Light Card
- MyGym and MyActive discounts
- Financial wellbeing service
- Life Assurance
- Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
- Opportunity to progress in your career through our Education Academy, and ongoing training and professional development.
- Comprehensive and tailored induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period.
- Face-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme.
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all colleagues on a variety of topics
- Employee assistance programme - free, confidential support via Bupa.
- Community and wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need to feel good about what you do. We're in this together.
- Supportive management and senior leaders.
- High quality CPD opportunities.
- Free eye checks.
If you would like to be part of this journey, changing the lives of children and young children then we'd like to hear from you. Please apply today!
