Role Overview
Practitioner Psychologist – HCPC Registered Practitioner, based in Croydon. This role supports residents and staff to feel empowered and utilises your skills and expertise in a creative and evolving environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advice, guidance, and support to the team and residents to overcome personal challenges and create a supportive environment.
- Advise and streamline best practices, and enhance the overall skills and expertise of the team to deliver high quality care and support.
- Provide clinical supervision to the team.
- Provide highly specialised psychological assessments for residents with mental health and complex needs.
- Exercise full clinical responsibility for residents’ psychological care as a care coordinator within a multidisciplinary team.
- Formulate and implement plans for various therapy routes and management of assessing mental health conditions based upon appropriate conceptual frameworks and evidence-based practices.
About You
We are looking for a self‑starter who can proactively encourage, lead and take ownership of creating a psychologically informed environment. You will:
- Communicate highly complex and sensitive information effectively within the organisation and with external partners.
- Collaborate with external stakeholders regularly in a multidisciplinary approach.
- Utilise your expertise to empower the wider team to enhance their skills and deliver a service which is supportive, safe, and in line with best practice and regulatory bodies.
- Be a HCPC registered practitioner with post‑graduate doctoral level training, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology, at least two distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Have previous experience as a qualified clinical and/or forensic psychologist, working with people with complex backgrounds/needs.
- Have the ability to teach, train, consult and deliver clinical supervision.
- Understand criminology, psychology, and behavioural patterns, and how they link to different behaviours and engagement.
- Apply safeguarding protocols as they arise.
- Show flexibility in working patterns, responding to the needs of the service and residents.
- Align with our values of Ambition, Empowerment, Inclusivity and Transparency.
Work Schedule
22.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday between 09:00 and 17:00, with some flexibility required to meet service needs.
Location
Based in Croydon. Unfortunately this service does not have step‑free access.
What We Offer
- 25 days (full‑time equivalent) annual leave, increasing with length of service.
- Employer pension contribution.
- Eligibility to register with Blue Light Discount Card.
- Discounted tickets for music events, shows, sports and more.
- Reflective Practice regular sessions with a therapist provided by an external provider.
- Training and development, including access to courses, upskilling and progression plans.
- Employee assistance programme, including counselling.
- Life assurance scheme.
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
- Annual staff awards.
- EDI ambassador programme.
About Social Interest Group (SIG)
SIG is a not‑for‑profit organisation providing high‑quality support and care in residential, drop‑in centres, community floating support settings, probation settings, and hospitals across London, Brighton, Bedfordshire, Luton, Kent and Liverpool. Our goal is to transform lives through empowering change. We believe good care and support improves lives with a vision to create healthier, safer and more inclusive communities, and to keep people out of prison, hospital and off the streets.
Additional Information
Please note that this job advert may close early due to screening applications on an ongoing basis. We advise applying as soon as possible. A DBS check will be conducted; some roles may require further vetting. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds. This post is not sponsored; you must have full right to work in the UK prior to applying.
Person Specification
- HCPC Registration
- Clinical or Forensic Psychology background.
Experience
- Previous experience as a qualified clinical and/or forensic psychologist, including experience with people who have complex backgrounds or needs.
- Previous experience in a similar role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service is required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary & Band
NHS equivalent band 8A. Salary ranges from £55,000 to £60,000 per annum (full‑time equivalent).
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Practitioner Psychologist – HCPC Registered Practitioner, based in Croydon. This role supports residents and staff to feel empowered and utilises your skills and expertise in a creative and evolving environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advice, guidance, and support to the team and residents to overcome personal challenges and create a supportive environment.
- Advise and streamline best practices, and enhance the overall skills and expertise of the team to deliver high quality care and support.
- Provide clinical supervision to the team.
- Provide highly specialised psychological assessments for residents with mental health and complex needs.
- Exercise full clinical responsibility for residents’ psychological care as a care coordinator within a multidisciplinary team.
- Formulate and implement plans for various therapy routes and management of assessing mental health conditions based upon appropriate conceptual frameworks and evidence-based practices.
About You
We are looking for a self‑starter who can proactively encourage, lead and take ownership of creating a psychologically informed environment. You will:
- Communicate highly complex and sensitive information effectively within the organisation and with external partners.
- Collaborate with external stakeholders regularly in a multidisciplinary approach.
- Utilise your expertise to empower the wider team to enhance their skills and deliver a service which is supportive, safe, and in line with best practice and regulatory bodies.
- Be a HCPC registered practitioner with post‑graduate doctoral level training, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology, at least two distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Have previous experience as a qualified clinical and/or forensic psychologist, working with people with complex backgrounds/needs.
- Have the ability to teach, train, consult and deliver clinical supervision.
- Understand criminology, psychology, and behavioural patterns, and how they link to different behaviours and engagement.
- Apply safeguarding protocols as they arise.
- Show flexibility in working patterns, responding to the needs of the service and residents.
- Align with our values of Ambition, Empowerment, Inclusivity and Transparency.
Work Schedule
22.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday between 09:00 and 17:00, with some flexibility required to meet service needs.
Location
Based in Croydon. Unfortunately this service does not have step‑free access.
What We Offer
- 25 days (full‑time equivalent) annual leave, increasing with length of service.
- Employer pension contribution.
- Eligibility to register with Blue Light Discount Card.
- Discounted tickets for music events, shows, sports and more.
- Reflective Practice regular sessions with a therapist provided by an external provider.
- Training and development, including access to courses, upskilling and progression plans.
- Employee assistance programme, including counselling.
- Life assurance scheme.
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
- Annual staff awards.
- EDI ambassador programme.
About Social Interest Group (SIG)
SIG is a not‑for‑profit organisation providing high‑quality support and care in residential, drop‑in centres, community floating support settings, probation settings, and hospitals across London, Brighton, Bedfordshire, Luton, Kent and Liverpool. Our goal is to transform lives through empowering change. We believe good care and support improves lives with a vision to create healthier, safer and more inclusive communities, and to keep people out of prison, hospital and off the streets.
Additional Information
Please note that this job advert may close early due to screening applications on an ongoing basis. We advise applying as soon as possible. A DBS check will be conducted; some roles may require further vetting. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds. This post is not sponsored; you must have full right to work in the UK prior to applying.
Person Specification
- HCPC Registration
- Clinical or Forensic Psychology background.
Experience
- Previous experience as a qualified clinical and/or forensic psychologist, including experience with people who have complex backgrounds or needs.
- Previous experience in a similar role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service is required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary & Band
NHS equivalent band 8A. Salary ranges from £55,000 to £60,000 per annum (full‑time equivalent).
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