At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide psychological support and assessments for children and families in need.
- Company: Tyre Hill House, a supportive residential family centre.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a chance to make a real difference.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for growth and impactful work.
- Why this job: Join a passionate team dedicated to helping vulnerable families and children thrive.
- Qualifications: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and experience with children and families required.
The predicted salary is between 37338 - 44962 £ per year.
Join Tyre Hill House. Tyre Hill House is an aspirational residential family centre providing assessment and support for parents and children who need intensive, round-the-clock support while questions about parenting capacity, child safety and sustainable care are understood.
Many of the families who come to Tyre Hill will have experienced adversity, trauma, care experience, domestic abuse, mental health difficulty, substance misuse, learning needs or social isolation. Our aim is to provide assessments that are safe, fair, structured and child-centred, while also giving parents clear support, teaching and feedback.
This includes residential family support, social work assessment, psychology, parenting and early years expertise, domestic abuse, substance misuse, and dedicated support for care-experienced parents.
The Clinical Psychologist will provide specialist psychological, developmental and relational expertise within Tyre Hill House's evidence-led residential family assessment and change model. The postholder will lead psychological formulation across the assessment model, with a particular focus on infants, young children, parent-child relationships, parental emotional availability, attunement, reflective functioning, trauma, emotional regulation, mental health, learning needs, neurodivergence and relational patterns.
The role combines direct observation, psychological assessment, formulation, consultation, reflective practice, staff support, training, contribution to assessment planning and specialist input into final analysis and recommendations.
- Formulation and analysis
- Direct work with parents, infants and young children
- Safeguarding and regulatory responsibilities
- Consultation, supervision and workforce development
Experience required:
- Experience as a qualified Clinical Psychologist working with children, parents and families
- Experience of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention with families where complexity, risk or vulnerability is present
- Strong knowledge of infant and child development, attachment, parent-child relationships and the impact of trauma
- Ability to assess the relationship between parental emotional functioning and the child's lived experience
- Strong written skills, including assessment, formulation and report writing
- Understanding of safeguarding children and adults at risk
- Ability to contribute to risk assessment and risk management
- Ability to use supervision and reflective practice appropriately
Qualifications:
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or equivalent qualification conferring eligibility to practise as a Clinical Psychologist in the UK
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Eligibility to use the protected title Clinical Psychologist
- Evidence of post-qualification experience relevant to children, families, safeguarding, trauma, parent-child relationships or complex assessment
The role will require a full disclosure barring service (DBS).
