Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Located in the rural community of Westbury, a tranquil setting that offers young people an environment to live, learn and grow. This beautiful site brings together education, care and therapeutic support for our young people, providing the perfect backdrop to release their full potential. We support young people with ADHD, ASD, Asperger’s, SLCN, PDA and SEMH and have recently been rated Good by Ofsted. 

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.

Psychologist
As a Psychologist you will join a highly experienced Multidisciplinary Clinical
Services Team comprising Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and
Creative/Talking Therapists. You will be part of a regional clinical team working with children and young
people to provide high quality assessment and intervention, identifying and addressing areas of social,
emotional, mental health and cognitive need. You will also be involved in the development of MDT
therapeutic plans of support that will meet EHCP requirements and address identified needs to support
educational attainment and access to learning.
The post holder will be based primarily in an education setting but will also offer support within our
residential settings. They will work alongside the Multidisciplinary Clinical Team, residential and
educational staff, to support the Therapeutic Practice Model with a focus on complex
trauma, neurodiversity and Special Educational Needs. You will be involved in the provision of training and
guidance to the team around the children and young people. Working with external agencies and
parent/carers is a significant part of supporting children and young people and as part of the Clinical
Services Team you will work closely with CAMHS, Social Care and parents where necessary.
Children and young people we live and learn with, can, at times be hard to reach and can exhibit
challenging behaviours. As a Psychologist you will utilise your skills in building relationships and engaging
children and young people in assessments and interventions. We support and promote alternative ways of
working that are unique to that individual child or young person so you will be encouraged to think
‘outside the box’ and to bring a flexible and creative approach to your work.
Responsibilities
· Ensure the needs and views of our children and young people are at the heart of everything we do:
offering evidence based, holistic and child-centred assessments and interventions across the Three
Waves of Intervention and in line with the Therapeutic Focus Model.

· To undertake high quality clinical assessments of children and young people and develop
formulations of therapeutic need. To write reports as part of a multidisciplinary team or individually
to reflect assessment, progress and outcomes as required.

· To work closely with our children and young people ensuring personalised adaptable plans of
support, communicating, reviewing and celebrating children and young people’s success and
achievement with them.

· To develop evidence based programmes of intervention and to formally evaluate the impact and
outcomes of such interventions.

· To role model to all children and young people, education and care colleagues how to promote
positive mental health, self-esteem, and relationships.

· To develop professional relationships with home and school staff.

· Organise and facilitate internal child focused meetings in partnership with the Homes Therapists,
ensuring appropriate staff are invited.

· To deliver training to education or care staff teams in relation to supporting our children and young
people.

· To promote and facilitate reflective practice.

· To safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people at all times and to follow
Group policy and procedures in this area. All staff have a key role and responsibility in this area.

· To participate in the Group’s Staff Development Programme.

· To work with the Regional Director (Clinical) in helping to promote and develop our service links
and work flexibly as may be required by the needs of the service and carry out any other
reasonable duties as required.

· To induct, supervise and line manage Assistant Psychologists working in your settings.

· To complete administrative requirements in a timely manner. These include evidencing that you are
meeting EHCP requirements, liaison and completion of MDT reports and updating targets.

· To attend monthly, clinical and line management supervision. To complete progress reviews
monthly in the first 6 months and then termly. Supervision and line management will be provided