£7500 joining bonus!*
Role: Psychologist
Location: Wiltshire (Melksham, Devizes, Salisbury)
Salary: £53,600, per annum
Hours: Part time 22.5 hours per week. Hybrid working - All homes in the area must be visitied at least once per week.
Driving licence and access to a car required
Bright Futures, Inspired By You.
Horizon Care & Education are looking for a part time Clinical Psychologist to join us to deliver a comprehensive therapeutic service for children in our care in Salisbury and Melksham in Wiltshire. This is a really exciting position, working with 4 new childrens homes, with one of our homes being an assessment home, where we work closely with the children to identify their individual needs.
What you'll get to do
- 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.
What we're looking for from you
- 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
- Previous experience working with children and young people that have experienced trauma and have complex needs
- 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
Here are just some of the benefits of working for us:
- Real Living Wage employer
- Competitive pay rates
- Christmas bonus
- Blue Light Card
- TasteCard - Discounts on the CInema, meals out and days out!
- MyActive and MyGym discounts
- Colleague referral scheme with cash rewards - earn up to £2500 per referral!*
- Financial wellbeing service
- Life Assurance
- Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
- Tastecard - spectacular savings on dining, pizza, cinema tickets, supermarkets, and UK attractions!
- 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.
Horizon Care and Education is committed to quality, equality, and valuing diversity.
This post is subject to satisfactory criminal records check and satisfactory references.
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