Psychologist

4 weeks ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom Witherslack Group Full time

£52,994 - £62,192 (including paid school holidays) + excellent benefits

Those Huge Small Victories

Our clinicians are fulfilled by the idea of affecting even the smallest positive changes in our young people, so we celebrate the little things.

Get out what you put in

This role is based across Hall Cliffe School and Hall Cliffe Primary School in Wakefield (~4 miles apart). We would also accept part-time applications if the focus was on Hall Cliffe Primary School only.

The greatest achievements often don’t come easy but Hall Cliffe has earned a reputation as a school that can help turn young people’s lives around.  The school is housed in a stunning listed building at the centre of which is a tranquil courtyard that is used for both recreational and therapeutic activities.  However, the true centre of everything at Hall Cliffe School are the pupils, which is evident in the unwavering commitment and support that the staff team offer to each young person.  The school supports young people with ADHD, autism or SEMH needs.

Hall Cliffe Primary School is an independent specialist day school providing high quality education, based in Wakefield. The school meets the needs of a diverse group of pupils with special educational needs including speech, language and communication difficulties, autism, ADHD, and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties. Recently rated Outstanding by Ofsted, the school continues to go from strength to strength.

Our clinicians are a crucial part of the most joined-up model in SEND. Across all of our specialist schools and children’s homes, we provide unrivalled levels of clinical support, both in terms of our expertise and breadth of provision. Our young people present with a complexity of need including developmental trauma, neuro-developmental conditions and special educational needs.

As part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team you will be supporting educational and residential colleagues to provide therapeutic living and learning environments and, based on clinical assessment and formulation, offer individualised interventions and engagement to our young people.

Our Psychologists work collaboratively within our schools and children’s homes, this ensures that therapeutic support permeates every aspect of the education, care and support we offer all of our children and young people. You will provide consultation, workshops, training and guidance to the educational and residential teams around our children.

What we do for you

We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. With us, you’ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:

Training: A full induction and on the job training

Holiday: You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with full school holidays including bank holidays

Clinical Development: If career growth and professional advancement is your thing, we provide a leading programme of clinical learning and development

Flexible benefits: meaning you can
increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out our benefits 

Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance

Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts

Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities – check out our schools 

A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £1,000 bonus every time

Bring your whole self to work

Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs – and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. The kind of person we’re looking for will:

Be a qualified Clinical, Educational, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC

Be a specialist with proven skills and experience to assess, formulate and support the delivery of therapeutic interventions with children and young people with complex needs

Have experience of supporting the team around a child or young person to provide clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences

Be a confident, engaging and effective, model, guide, leader
and trainer

Be highly organised and ready to take the initiative

Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people

This is a great opportunity to change young lives and have a positive impact on their future. Embedded within our living and learning environments you will be offered the support, resource and platform for you to do great things. You’ll benefit from supervision, a clinical development programme and access to a 220+ strong team of multi-disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way.

Interested in joining us?

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose-led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.

The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

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To view our Child Protection Policy, please visit the 'Parents and Carers' section of this School/Learning centre. You can find all our Schools .

Special Education / Careers in Care / Careers in Special Education / Working with Children / SEMH / SEN / ASD

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