HCPC Therapist / Psychologist / Psychotherapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

A variety of clinical specialties considered, including Clinical Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, and Specialist Psychotherapist (a minimum of three to five years post-qualification experience).

HCPC Registered Clinicians only.

Starting Salary: Band six to seven, dependent on specialty and experience. Preceptorship to eight A would be considered.

About Us

Timeout is a family-run organisation. Our ethos and philosophies are based on a systemic approach to promoting the childs emotional well-being. We work with local authorities across the United Kingdom to provide care and education for children within the care of the authority.

We take pride in providing therapeutic care and education to children aged between five and eighteen years in our residential and education settings. Timeout values are central to everything we do. Being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful, and transparent helps us deliver high-quality levels of care and education.

We specialise in both solo and dual-occupancy homes. In addition, we provide therapeutic support to parents of our children within our education services. Our mission is to achieve the best possible outcomes for every child we care for and provide life-lasting positive change in their lives. This job opportunity will allow you to work across the homes and our schools to provide therapeutic interventions.

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide specialist assessments of young children referred to the service, including but not limited to cognitive assessments, self-report measures, and direct or indirect structured observations.
• Formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based on an appropriate conceptual framework, employing methods supported by evidence of efficacy to improve the parent-child relationship.
• Implement a range of psychotherapeutic interventions.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• Provide specialist mental health advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents or carers.
• Contribute to and use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes to ensure young children and their parents or carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents or carers.
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, providing information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of young children and their parents or carers under their care.
• Monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated.
• Maintain accurate and accessible healthcare records according to service and HCPC policy and information governance requirements.
• Demonstrate high-level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.
• Receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior colleagues.
• Gain additional experience and skills relevant to the profession and/or the service, as agreed with the responsible professional and team manager.
• If required, provide advice, consultation, and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings.

For further information on the role, please contact us at careers@timeouthomes.co.uk for the job description.

Timeout promotes child protection and the safeguarding of children through the services it provides.

This job offers you the opportunity to be part of a child's life. Please consider this carefully, as our children deserve consistency and commitment from adults who have space in their lives for the next few years.

For more information about who we are and what we do, visit our careers page below:

Timeout is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• A minimum of 3-5 years post qualification experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Timeout Childrens Homes Ltd

Address

Ripponden Mill

Mill Fold

Ripponden

West Yorkshire

HX6 4DH

Employer's website

https://www.timeouthomes.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)