Clinical Psychologist

Psicon Ltd; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join their experienced team in delivering specialized psychological assessments and consultations. This role not only focuses on direct clinical responsibilities but also involves strategic service development, ensuring the highest standards of care are maintained. The organization prides itself on fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment, offering numerous benefits such as enhanced annual leave, well-being days, and a vibrant workplace culture. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and families, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave of 32 days

Flexible annual leave scheme

Well-being days

Pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Birthday lie in

Free breakfast

Funded social events

Staff well-being bursary scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering psychological assessments and consultations.
• Involvement in strategic service development and management.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat children and families with mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions.
• Support service development and maintain clinical standards.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Therapeutic Techniques (CBT, Systemic, Psycho-dynamic)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Service Development

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

About Us

Psicon is a specialist neurodevelopmental service working collaboratively with various NHS trusts to provide autism and ADHD assessments. We are an independent organisation, but most of our work is for the NHS, whom we are proud to support. Psicon is committed to offering the best psychological support and healthcare available. We take an innovative approach to the delivery of our services and ensure that they are of the highest standards in the industry.

About The Role

You will be joining a very experienced clinical team, first and foremost as a Clinical Psychologist, delivering specialist psychological assessments, advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care. However, you will be actively involved in strategic and service development as part of our clinical management team:

1. Clinical Responsibilities
   1. Assessment and treatment of children and young people and/or families with mental health conditions and/or neurodevelopmental conditions.
   2. Carry out therapeutic work:
   3. With children, young people and families using a variety of therapeutic models that might include CBT, Systemic and Psycho-dynamic.
   4. With adoptive families/families subject to special guardianship orders, which includes therapeutic parenting work, individual therapy, and family work.
2. Management responsibilities
   1. Act as a core member of the Child, Young People and Family Service at Psicon.
   2. Actively support and drive change and service development with the management team at Psicon by designing and delivering robust clinical processes and systems to ensure governance and risk management standards are maintained.
   3. Support the Psicon Clinical leadership Team to develop and maintain clinical standards across our services including the supervision of Associates Clinicians and our internal Assistant Psychologists Team.

Working at Psicon

We value our employees as an integral part of our service delivery and believe in recruiting and investing in the best employees. We pride ourselves in providing our employees with the opportunities and resources to achieve their potential. We are keen to provide a vibrant, fun yet challenging working environment for our team who share in our core values of trust, integrity, commitment and kindness and work collaboratively to achieve our company goals of:

1. The best possible customer service.
2. The most efficient and effective clinical work.
3. A thriving and engaged workforce.
4. A truly inclusive organisation.

Benefits Include

1. Enhanced annual leave of 32 days a year (inclusive of bank holidays).
2. Flexible annual leave scheme providing the ability to buy or sell back additional days.
3. Well-being days.
4. Pension scheme (with the option of enhancing via salary sacrifice).
5. Cycle to work scheme.
6. Birthday lie in.
7. Free breakfast, including 'pastry Mondays'.
8. Funded social events.
9. Staff well-being bursary scheme.

Additional Information / Contacting Us

1. For further information please email [e-mail] or call the Psicon Recruitment Team on 01227 202155 for more information.
2. Should you wish to discuss any reasonable adjustments or assistance you might need in the application or interview process, please contact our Recruitment Team and we will do our best to support you.
3. Please note, Psicon operate a ‘safer recruitment’ policy and will require candidates to undergo full referencing (covering a 3-year period), an enhanced DBS check, provide evidence of up-to-date mandatory training, the right to live and work in the UK.