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Qualified Psychologist – Hybrid – Children’s Residential Homes

Location: Home-based with travel to visit the homes in and around Shrewsbury

Hours: Full time permanent

Salary: up to £63,000 DOE

*Must be HCPC Registered*

Remit

Compass Associates is proud to be working with a leading provider of children’s specialist services, to recruit Qualified Psychologists to join their Children’s Clinical Team. This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical, Forensic, Counselling or Educational Psychologist who has experience working with children.

You’d divide your week between working from home and travelling to visit the children’s residential homes within your geographical remit. The homes provide specialist care and support for children and young people who have backgrounds of complex trauma, learning disabilities, autism spectrum conditions and challenging behaviours.

Your clinical responsibilities include carrying out assessments and consultations, formulating therapeutic plans and carrying out some direct, trauma-informed work with the children and young people. In addition to this, you will deliver training and provide advice to residential staff on how to best support children in their care. You will have senior support from the Clinical Lead and Associate Clinical Director, as well as work closely with the other Qualified Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Creative Therapists and Psychotherapists.

Location

This is a hybrid role where you will spend roughly half of the week working from home, with the other half of the week travelling to visit sites in your geographical area. This role covers homes in and around Shrewsbury, Telford, Bishops Castle, Welshpool, Bridgenorth, Market Drayton, Oswestry and surrounding towns.

Essential criteria

* Doctorate level degree in Clinical, Counselling, Forensic or Educational Psychology

* Full HCPC registration without conditions

* UK Driving Licence and access to own car is essential

* Clear and enhanced DBS

* Experience working with children and young people within CAMHS, residential or specialist education settings

* Good understanding of residential care, trauma-informed practice and multidisciplinary working

Interview Process

This is a two stage process which includes an informal conversation with the Associate Clinical Director, followed by a formal interview via Teams.

Contact details

If you would like to be considered for this exciting opportunity, please contact Lynette Robb directly.

Recommendations

Compass Associates Ltd is acting as a Recruitment Consultancy for this permanent vacancy; we offer a £200 John Lewis voucher for a successful recommendation following the completion of probation/rebate.

Compass Associates, established in 2009, is an award-winning, UK specialist Health and Social Care Recruitment Consultancy providing tailored, high quality recruitment solutions for all permanent assignments