Forensic Psychologist

**Registered Practitioner**
- **Bright Futures, Inspired By You.**_

There’s nothing more rewarding than helping someone believe in themselves, have the confidence to celebrate their own uniqueness and achieve success that is personal to them.

This is an exciting opportunity to use your psychological and therapeutic knowledge and experience to support colleagues across the Group deliver positive outcomes for young people.

At Horizon, we live up to our values, and we value our people. We are proud to be one of the most innovative providers of young people’s residential care and education in the UK. Our success means that we are opening new residential homes and schools and making a difference for young people in a variety of new areas as well as continuing to support young people in our established services.

**Who are we**

Horizon Care & Education are looking for a creative and innovative Registered Practitioner, Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist, to join our passionate team, delivering a comprehensive consultation lead therapeutic service for children in our care. This role involves providing support and oversight to teams in education.

This is a home-based role, from where you will regularly visit to our Schools in the region of Croydon to conduct consultations and provide support to teams and carry out assessments with the young people. This role will also support with ongoing need and risk issues and some scope for therapeutic interventions where appropriate.

Delivery of training is an important aspect of the role. At Horizon we train all our staff in our Shine Therapeutic model which includes DDP/PACE therapeutic parenting.

What you’ll get to do
- Manage your own caseload of schools to provide high levels of support and consultation for operational colleagues
- Provide psychological advice and guidance to teams to enable them to support young people throughout their journey with Horizon
- To be responsible for assessments, formulation and recommendations for psychological support for your own caseload.
- To develop and contribute to the delivery of therapeutic and psychological training to all staff in the organisation as part of the Therapeutic Academy.
- Benefit from regular supervision and CPD activities
- Benefit from opportunities to participate in service development activities across the Horizon Group
- **What we’re looking for from you**_
- Experience of working with Children and Young People or relevant demonstrable transferable skills
- A desire to support services through embedding therapeutic practice
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Ability to engage individuals in the consultancy or therapeutic process.
- 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**:

- Friendly, small passionate teams
- Rewarding work helping our young people aged 8-18 reach their potential in their daily lives and through their learning
- Competitive salary
- £40,000-£44,000
- Mileage allowance
- Comprehensive induction programme, highly praised by new recruits
- Career advancement pathways and CPD support
- Face to face therapeutic training and support for all staff, with extensive training on the PACE model
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all staff on a variety of topics
- Cashback healthcare plan
- Employee Assistance Program (BUPA)

If you would like to come and join us on our journey, changing the lives of the children and young people that we care for, then we would like you to get in touch with our recruitment team for an informal conversation

Horizon Care and Education is committed to quality, equality, and valuing diversity.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £40,000.00-£44,000.00 per year

Flexible Language Requirement:

- English not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Licence/Certification:

- HCPC (required)
- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: On the road