Head of Psychology
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: Up to £75,000
Location: Staffordshire - Hybrid including national travel across sites
We are collaborating with a private client, a rapidly expanding provider of safe and nurturing children's homes, specialist education, and supported accommodation across England. Established in 2007, the company has grown to a team of over 1,000 colleagues. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Psychology to join their dedicated team. This role offers hybrid working arrangements and requires national travel across various sites in England.
Tier 2 sponsorship cannot be provided for this role.
Duties and responsibilities for the Head of Psychology are:
- Design, implement, and oversee the therapeutic services for the Residential and Supported Accommodation divisions.
- Develop a system to ensure team outputs are evidenced and measurable.
- Contribute to the formulation of a therapy dashboard, providing a monthly management information report to be shared with divisional MDs and the Senior Executive Team (SET).
- Line manage a team of psychologists.
- Maintain compliance with KPIs and SLAs, taking prompt action to address any negative variations.
- Closely monitor team outputs to ensure maximum utilisation and identify areas of underperformance.
- Embed a therapeutic approach throughout the Residential and Supported Accommodation divisions.
Minimum requirements for the Head of Psychology are:
- Chartered or holding a doctorate in a psychology discipline (e.g., forensic, clinical, counselling, educational, organisational) with HCPC and BPS registration.
- HCPC Registered.
- Experience in leading a similar function within Health and Social Care/Education, with a solid understanding of associated regulations, is highly desirable.
- Exceptional judgement with the ability to balance multiple projects and deadlines.
- Proven track record of achievement against KPIs in a similar environment.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to negotiate and challenge.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Proficient in spoken, listening, writing, communication, and presentation skills in English.
- Outstanding administrative skills, with the ability to multi-task and prioritise effectively.
- Team-oriented and results-focused.
- Strong IT literacy.
Benefits:
- Competitive pay rates
- Christmas bonus
- Blue Light Card
- MyGym and MyActive discounts
- Financial wellbeing service
- Life Assurance
- Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave.
- Tastecard
- Opportunity to progress in your career through our Education Academy, and ongoing training and professional development.
- Comprehensive and tailored induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period.
- Face-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme.
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all colleagues on a variety of topics
- Employee assistance programme - free, confidential support.
- Community and wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need to feel good about what you do. We're in this together.
- Supportive management and senior leaders.
- High quality CPD opportunities.
- Free eye checks.
Join them on their mission to transform the lives of children and young people. Apply today to become part of the journey!
