Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist
3 weeks ago
Role: Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Salary: Up to £53,900 per annum depending on experience. (pro-rata)
Location: Derby, Derbyshire
Contract/Hours: Permanent - Part-time (30 hours per week)
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
- Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
- Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
- Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.
Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 688,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A bit about the role
Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with extensive experience of working with children and young people in care, care leavers or those who have experienced trauma or attachment insecurity? Are you looking for an opportunity to join a passionate, creative and innovative team, to shape service delivery, pursue specialist interests and influence system change.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our highly skilled multi-disciplinary team of psychologists, therapists, and therapeutic social workers. You will report to the Lead Psychologist, with a view to develop, and deliver, a specialist trauma and attachment service for Children in Care and Care Leavers, whilst working closely with the team practice manager to provide clinical oversight and supervision to our Therapeutic Practitioners.
You will have access to external training and model specific supervision in attachment and trauma models such as Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Theraplay® and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and will support the team in the delivery of their targets around case work, training, reflective practice, and consultation.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
- Providing clinical supervision and oversight to a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team
- Supporting the assessment, formulation, and intervention of complex case work, including delivery of highly specialist psychological assessments and co-delivery of trauma and attachment interventions to children, young people, carers and those in the professional network
- Developing, piloting and co-facilitating training/ group work / reflective practice sessions to professional teams
- Leading on aspects of service delivery
- Supporting AFC's growth strategy around mental health/ residential services and trauma informed psychological practice.
- Contributing to audit and evaluation.
Let's talk about you.
- Doctorate or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- Registered as a qualified practitioner Clinical Psychologist by the HCPC
- Experience of delivering highly specialist risk and psychological assessments
- Experience of working therapeutically with children, young people and families including delivering interventions targeted at addressing complex trauma and attachment insecurity.
- Experience of supervising
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
- Experience of delivering workshops/training/group-work/reflective practice
- Car user preferable as the role will involve travelling.
Good to know.
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Application Process
There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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