Psychologist

Witherslack Group; Walton-le-Dale; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational support organization in Walton-le-Dale is seeking a qualified Clinical Psychologist to join their team at Bridgeway School. In this role, you will support therapeutic interventions for young people with complex needs and engage with staff to ensure effective learning environments. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits, including comprehensive training and development opportunities, school holidays, and flexible benefits. This opportunity allows you to make a genuine difference in the lives of children and young people.

Benefits

Full school holidays including bank holidays

Clinical development program

Flexible benefits package

Wellbeing tools and advice

Medical cover for appointments

Beautiful working environments

Recommend-a-friend scheme with bonuses

Qualifications

• Registered with the HCPC as a qualified psychologist.
• Proven skills to assess and support therapeutic interventions.
• Experience in providing clinically informed environments.

Responsibilities

• Support educational and residential colleagues with therapeutic interventions.
• Conduct workshops and provide consultations to staff.
• Engage with students to foster their development.

Skills

Assessment of therapeutic interventions

Supporting children with complex needs

Confident leadership and training

Organizational skills

Education

Qualification as Clinical, Educational, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist

Job description

£54,584 - £64,058 (including paid school holidays) + excellent benefits

Those Huge Small Victories

Our clinicians are fulfilled by the idea of affecting even the smallest positive changes in our young people, so we celebrate the little things.

Get out what you put in

This role is based at Bridgeway School, 3-days-per-week.

Bridgeway School is an independent specialist day school providing high quality education for boys and girls. Based in Preston, the school caters for pupils with autism, neuro developmental needs and associated complexities such as, trauma, sensory processing, mental health and speech, language and communication difficulties.

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.

What we do for you

We know you’ll do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. You’ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:

• Training: A full induction and on‑the‑job training
• Holiday: You’ll work hard, so you’ll be rewarded with full school holidays including bank holidays
• Clinical Development: Leading programme of clinical learning and development if you’re after career growth and professional advancement
• Flexible benefits: Life insurance and other benefits you can increase or decrease – see our benefits
• Wellbeing: A host of wellbeing tools and advice, including employee assistance
• Medical cover: Claim back costs for optician or dentist appointments and enjoy high‑street discounts
• Beautiful working environments: The very best facilities – see our schools
• a recommend‑a‑friend scheme that offers a £1,000 bonus each time

Bring your whole self to work

Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs – and our workforce reflects that diversity so our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves.

We are looking for:

• Be a qualified Clinical, Educational, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC
• Be a specialist with proven skills and experience to assess, formulate and support the delivery of therapeutic interventions with children and young people with complex needs
• Have experience of supporting the team around a child or young person to provide clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences
• Be a confident, engaging and effective model, guide, leader and trainer
• Be highly organised and ready to take the initiative
• Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people

This is a great opportunity to change young lives and have a positive impact on their future. Embedded within our living and learning environments you’ll have the support, resources and platform to do great things. You’ll benefit from supervision, a clinical development programme and access to a 220+ strong team of multi‑disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way.

Interested in joining us?

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose‑led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.

The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.