Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a full-time Psychologist based in Cannock.
The salary for this permanent Psychologist role is £53,600.
Main Duties:
- Deliver evidence based therapeutic and psychologically led care which conforms to the standards outlined by the HCPC and BPS under supervision
- Undertake comprehensive psychological assessments and write psychological reports for children and young people in the care of Horizon Care & Education
- Develop, write and regularly review/update therapeutic care plans for children and young people in residential care and education
- Manage a limited caseload for individual intervention, providing specialist psychological input to young people and teams in residential care and educational settings
- Contribute to the development of a therapeutically informed service across education and residential teams
Must Haves:
- Experience of working with Children and Young People or relevant demonstrable transferable skills is essential
- Post-doctoral knowledge of applied psychology including developmental lifespan psychology, models of psychopathology
- Experiencing in the assessment and management of self-harm / risk / crisis management / safeguarding
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Practitioner doctorate or equivalent accepted by the British Psychological Society as qualifying the person to work as a clinical/ counselling/ forensic psychologist/relevant qualification to enable HCPC registration
- Knowledge of Therapeutic practices
- Experience of working with sensory strategies
- A desire to support services through embedding therapeutic practice
- 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
Benefits:
- Real Living Wage employer
- Competitive pay rates
- Christmas bonus
- Blue Light Card
- Colleague referral scheme with cash rewards - earn up to £2500 per referral!
- Financial wellbeing service
- Life Assurance
- Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
- Tastecard - spectacular savings on dining, pizza, cinema tickets, supermarkets, and UK attractions!
- Opportunity to progress in your career through our Education Academy, and ongoing training and professional development
- Comprehensive and tailored induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period
- Face-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all colleagues on a variety of topics
- Employee assistance programme - free, confidential support via Bupa
- Community and wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need to feel good about what you do. We're in this together
- Supportive management and senior leaders
- High quality CPD opportunities
- Free eye checks
Contact:
This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
