Psychologist

Psychologist

Application Deadline: 2026-10-20

Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire, GB, LE10 0

Contract End Date: 2026-11-18T21:00:04.57

Salary: £65,077 - £76,372 + excellent benefits

About Us

Witherslack Group

Our Values

• 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 Dovetree School, for a fixed-term of 6 months. We would also accept anyone looking for term-time only.

About Dovetree School

Dovetree School is an independent specialist day school providing high quality education for boys and girls. Based in Hinckley, Leicestershire, the school meets the needs of a diverse group of pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs, alongside a range of other associated conditions.

Our Clinical Support

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, neurodevelopmental conditions, and special educational needs.

Your Role

As part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team, you will be supporting educational and residential colleagues to provide therapeutic living and learning environments. Based on clinical assessment and formulation, you will offer individualized interventions and engagement to our young people.

Our Psychologists work collaboratively within our schools and children's homes, ensuring that therapeutic support permeates every aspect of education, care, and support we offer 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

• Training: A full induction and on-the-job training


• Holiday: You'll work hard at WG, so you'll be rewarded with 35 days holiday including bank holidays


• Clinical Development: We provide a leading program of clinical learning and development for career growth and professional advancement


• Flexible benefits: Increase or decrease benefits such as life insurance; access wellbeing tools and employee assistance


• Medical cover: Claim back costs for opticians, dentists, and high-street discounts


• Facilities: Beautiful working environments with top facilities in our schools

Bring Your Whole Self to Work

Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds, and different needs. Our workforce reflects that diversity to better engage, encourage, and inspire our young people to be themselves. The ideal candidate will:

• Be a qualified Clinical, Educational, Forensic, or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC


• Be a specialist with proven skills in assessing, formulating, and supporting therapeutic interventions for children and young people with complex needs


• Have experience supporting a team to provide clinically informed living and learning environments


• Be confident, engaging, effective, and capable of guiding and training others


• Be highly organized and initiative-driven


• Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people

Opportunity

This is a great chance to change young lives and positively impact their future. Embedded within our environments, you will receive support, resources, and a platform to excel. You will benefit from supervision, a clinical development program, and a team of over 220 multidisciplinary colleagues supporting you every step of the way.

Join Us

Our young people deserve the best future, and so do our teams. You deserve a career with purpose, 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 requires an enhanced DBS check (cost covered) and an online search.

We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all community sections.

For a full job description and person specification, please click. For our ex-offenders policy, please click. To view our Child Protection Policy, visit the 'Parents and Carers' section of this School/Learning centre. Our areas include:

• Special Education


• Careers in Care


• Careers in Special Education


• Working with Children


• SEMH


• SEN


• ASD

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Those Huge Small VictoriesOur 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 inThis role is based at Dovetree School, for a fixed-term of 6 months. We would also accept anyone looking for term-time only.
Dovetree School is an independent specialist day school providing high quality education for boys and girls. Based in Hinckley, Leicestershire, the school meets the needs of a diverse group of pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Heath (SEMH) needs, alongside a range of other associated conditions.
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 youWe know you're going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. With us, 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 at WG, so you'll be rewarded with 35 days holiday including bank holidays
Clinical Development: If career growth and professional advancement is your thing, we provide a leading programme of clinical learning and development
Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance - check out our benefits a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts
Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities - check out our schools

Bring your whole self to workOur young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs - and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. The kind of person we're looking for will:
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 will be offered the support, resource and platform for you 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.
For a full job description and person specification, please click
To view our ex-offenders policy please click
To view our Child Protection Policy, please visit the 'Parents and Carers' section of this School/Learning centre. You can find all our Schools
Special Education / Careers in Care / Careers in Special Education / Working with Children / SEMH / SEN / ASD