Assistant Psychologist

2 weeks ago

Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom LifePsychol Ltd Full time

We have a vacancy in the Preston Docks area for a part time (one day per week) Assistant Psychologist to provide psychometric assessments that contribute to wider psychological assessments for care providers and to support the wider service related to young people in children's residential homes.

The role involves travelling to various locations in the area and gathering information, setting up meetings, administering psychometric assessments and contributing to reports and letters.


The post involves a combination of:

  • administering psychometric assessments
- gathering background information from files
- collecting questionnaire data from schools and foster/residential carers
- gathering outcome data and using an online outcome measurement tool
- acting as a champion for the outcome measurement protocol within services
- distributing, collecting and scoring surveys
- data entry and statistical analysis
- providing summary reports from outcome data/questionnaires
- writing up reports to a template provided
- making structured observations of children
- gathering third party observational data
- other such tasks as the business requires


We like to give you the opportunity to show us what you are capable of, and we see our staff as our most valuable resource.

We provide supervision according to BPS recommendations, and plenty of opportunities for personal development. Supervision will be provided by a qualified clinical psychologist.

We have a commitment to training and development, and a good track record of past assistants gaining places on clinical training (though I suspect this is as much about who I select as the experiences we provide).


Salary is based on a full time rate of £21,000 per annum but will be paid pro rata for one day per week

Background information:


LifePsychol/BERRI is a clinical psychology company that has particular expertise about children and families, particularly when it comes to attachment, parenting and recovery from adversity.

Our main specialist area is around attachment, trauma and maltreatment and how this evidence base can inform the care of children who do not live in their family of origin.

We therefore provide training for adoptive, foster and residential carers, as well as health, social care and legal professionals.

The company is small but growing rapidly. Our mission is to improve outcomes for children with complex needs.

Our aim is to change the way that children's psychological needs are looked at in the UK (and then around the world), by identifying both mental health symptoms and needs that are outside the traditional medical model and encompass behaviour, relationships, development, risk and a broad range of indicators of wellbeing.

Through identifying needs better, and tracking how they change over time we want to improve the quality of placements and services for children, starting with those who are in the Care system.

We hope to achieve this ambitious goal by training carers, implementing a new set of standards for care providers, and through structured needs assessments and regular use of outcome measures (BERRI).

We then hope to spread this methodology to other groups of children with complex needs, such as those at the edge of care, or in specialist educational provision, poor school attenders or those who have experienced adversity.

We hope to see our system used in every local authority, placement provider, school and charity that provides children's services to inform the way that psychological needs are identified and addressed.


Why start with children who are in Care? LAC are a particularly vulnerable group of children and young people because their needs are complex and they have experienced multiple adversities that put them at greater risk of negative outcomes.

Local Authorities are spending £9 billion on children's social care, including £3 billion on placements every year, but there is little evidence about what works to improve life chances and reduce risks because very little data is being collected.

We want to change this, and to ensure that the systems around children are psychologically minded and informed by the latest evidence.


The training, pathway and standards we implement are about ensuring that strategies carers use are evidence-based, individualised to the background and needs of each child, evolve as the child's needs change, and are based on a thorough psychological assessment and a multi-faceted formulation of the child's needs.

We believe that having advice from a clinical psychologist to inform the care of all Looked After Children (and other children with complex needs) will both reduce stigma and improve outcomes, whilst helping carers to feel better equipped to meet the children's needs.

We have developed a training program and care pathway as one means to implement these standards for placements.

We have also developed a set of online tools for commissioners and placement providers to use to identify

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