Job Title: Practitioner Psychologist/ Lead Clinician
Location: Roxby House, Scunthorpe
Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum, depending on experience
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm
Contract: Permanent
Essential: Full valid UK driving licence and access to own vehicle
We are looking for an outstanding and experienced Practitioner Psychologist to work in a key role as the Lead Clinician for our service. This is a wide and varied role ideal for those looking for a new challenge where you can truly have an impact on shaping a service and driving change.
About the role:
The successful applicant would lead, manage and where appropriate, clinically supervise the clinicians and assistant practitioners in our multi-disciplinary team including Occupational Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists to ensure we meet the complex and diverse needs of the people we support. Our team, which also includes Psychiatry is well embedded and works in a highly collaborative way with our Care colleagues including our Registered managers, House Managers, Team Leaders and Support Workers.
As an experienced Practitioner Psychologist, the post-holder will offer bespoke assessment, formulation and interventions working with within a whole-systems as well as individual and consolidative approaches.
As Lead Clinician, you would be responsible for the day-to-day service provision and line management of staff in the Clinical Team, working closely with the Clinical Locality Lead to provide an effective, high quality service.
Working independently within the overall framework of the services policies and procedures you will support the adults in our service to develop a better quality of life. You will work within existing MDT and Clinical Governance structures to support the services in future development and ensuring quality assurance.
Our clinical teams help to develop empowering environments where our people can flourish, always putting them at the forefront of everything they do. All our settings maintain a strong safeguarding culture, and the adults we support are heard, respected and involved in decisions that affect them wherever possible.
When it comes to looking after the people in our care, we strive for excellence. With this in mind, we are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist/ Lead Clinician who shares our vision; to build incredible futures through empowerment.
Location: Roxby House
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About the Group:
Outcomes First Group is an independent provider of high-quality special needs education. We also have adult services covering all of England and North Wales. We are a vital part of local communities in England, Scotland and Wales with a renowned reputation for quality and positive outcomes for the people we support.
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Essential Criteria:
Professional qualification in Psychology (including post-graduate qualifications at Masters and/or Doctorate level).
Experience of working with adults who have an intellectual disability and/or autism with additional needs (e.g. complex trauma, mental health needs, behaviours of concern).
Registered with the HCPC.
Additional experience and ideally qualifications in leadership and management.
What’s in it for you?
You will be working with an ambitious and driven service that’s really going places, supported by an exceptional team of likeminded individuals who are keen to learn from you. You will have the resources and time to implement your strategic vision as this role will be key to the development of the service. This is an opportunity to enrich the lives of the adults we support and make a positive difference, in a role where you have autonomy.
We offer a friendly and inclusive working environment where our people are heard, respected and hugely valued. We want our employees to come to work with energy, determination and most importantly we want them to be happy in their work. We are well aware that it is our highly skilled teams that make Outcomes First Group the success it is, and we want this to continue. This is why we provide a range of benefits designed to support you, not just in your work life but also on a personal level too. We want you to be the best you can be and offer genuine opportunities for career development and progression.
Benefits and Rewards
Why work for us?
Alongside working with a network of clinical colleagues with regular forums for peer reflection and practice development, Outcomes First Group offer an array of flexible benefit options.
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:
Life Assurance
Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
“Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.
And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:
A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
Cycle to Work Schemes
Electric Car Purchase Scheme
Critical illness cover
And that’s not all, we place the outcomes for people in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully enhanced DBS.