Package Description

Senior Practitioner Psychologist – Clinical Lead for Activity and Intervention Services  

Salary – £65,000
Contract: Full time – some flexibility can be considered
Location: Shrewsbury / West Midlands 

Work Pattern: Home based with monthly travel to Activity and Intervention services 
 
About the role:

We’re launching a new clinical provision for our Activity and Intervention services, specialist 90 day programs that use outdoor adventure and focused support to break negative cycles and inspire fresh starts. With high staffing ratios and a blend of outdoor challenges and educational opportunities, you’ll help young people build confidence, discover new strengths, and prepare for successful community living.

What we’re looking for: 
We are looking for a Senior Psychologist who believes every child deserves safety, inclusion, and a strong sense of connection. In this role, you will bring experience supporting care-experienced children and the teams around them, with a solid understanding of the challenges and risks these young people face.

The Ideal Candidate:
This position would suit those with a background in forensic psychology, exploitation, prison services, youth offending, or victim support, who have worked with vulnerable young people in complex settings. You’ll be comfortable working with children and adolescents who have faced adversity, and committed to ensuring they receive the support they need.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological support to Activity & Intervention teams, applying the Keys Connect clinical model. 

• Oversee assessments, therapeutic plans, risk management, and advise on placements and transitions.

• Deliver training on therapeutic approaches. 

• Provide consultation on trauma, attachment, and recovery,

• Supervise team members as needed.

• Contribute to clinical service planning, support policy improvements. 

• Advise management on psychological needs and changes.

• Stay current with research, apply evidence-based practices, and lead research initiatives on children with complex needs.

• Engage in supervision and development, follow ethical guidelines, promote inclusion, maintain safeguarding practices, and keep accurate records. 

• Travel as required.

About you

Essential: HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist. 

Essential: Knowledge of the impact of developmental trauma and adverse childhood experiences on life trajectories. 

Essential: Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of applied psychology and specialised psychological therapies in working with people with complex needs and/or difficulties.

Essential: Experience of assessment and intervention with people who have a history of developmental trauma, neurodevelopmental needs and behavioural difficulties.

Essential: Experience of providing consultation, training, support and supervision/reflective practice to other professionals and non-professionals. 

Essential: Experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist. Ideally, 2+years post qualification

Essential: Experience of line management and of providing clinical supervision.

Essential: Ability to work with high levels of autonomy.

Essential: Full clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle 

Desirable: Previous experience of working with care experienced children, including working with teams around the child.

Desirable: Other clinical training such as CBT, Systemic Psychotherapy, DBT, DDP, EMDR

_{Due to the nature of the role, it is necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken (DBS).}

_{Keys Group are very proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant that means we have made a commitment to welcoming service personnel, veterans and military families into the group. We are delighted to have veteran friendly policies, offer a Veterans Peer Support Network within our teams and are able to offer Military Awareness and support to our colleagues.}

_{As part of our commitment, we will offer a guaranteed interview to current and former service personnel providing that they meet the criteria of the role that they are applying for. If you feel that you meet the criteria for this, please ensure that you have your military experience detailed on your CV for one of our resourcing team to get in touch.}

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