Job title: Practitioner Psychologist
Location: Hybrid, with in person and remote working available
Bases: 13 Station Road, Stone, Staffordshire, ST15 8JP and 40-42 Kemble Street, Prescot, Liverpool
Contract: Part time
Salary: £48,000 to £60,000 FTE
Benefits: Private medical insurance, pension, and one paid professional subscription
The opportunity
This is a rare chance for a Practitioner Psychologist to help shape a clinical service rather than inherit one. Omega Life Clinical opened its doors in the summer of 2025 and has been growing steadily ever since. We are now looking for an experienced Practitioner Psychologist whose thinking, formulations and clinical voice will help define how our service develops.
You will lead and deliver clinical assessment and intervention, predominantly across our external SEN contracts, with further work across our Omega Care Homes, Foundations For Life School and other developing opportunities. The children and young people you work with have complex lives, a range of diagnoses, emotional health difficulties and developmental needs. Your advanced assessment, formulation, intervention and consultancy skills will sit at the centre of how we understand and respond to them.
Just as importantly, your influence will extend well beyond the therapy room. You will work alongside staff teams, parents, external contracts and other stakeholders, translating psychological thinking into everyday practice for the adults around each child. With experience in clinical coordination, training and provision development, you will help guarantee that everything we build rests on high standards of care.
Who you'll be working with
Our Director of Clinical Services, Dr Carly Pointon, has led clinical work in almost every setting a psychologist can encounter. Since graduating in 2000, Carly has built over 25 years of experience, beginning in Forensic Psychology before qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist. Her career has taken her through charities, HMPS, schools, residential homes, Special Educational Needs settings and the courts, working with thousands of children, young people and families along the way.
Carly is the creator of Pointon Psychology and a senior operational leader in the United Kingdom. As Head of Clinical Operations for a leading provider, she managed a large team across hundreds of locations in the UK, including Scotland and Wales, and has repeatedly demonstrated what high impact clinical leadership looks like when it is delivered across multiple sites and sectors. Her leadership is defined by an appetite for groundbreaking ideas and by the deep connections she builds to improve how services are delivered.
Carly's own journey was shaped by overcoming childhood experiences that continue to shape who she is today. She is a values driven, sincere and compassionate leader dedicated to assisting others, and her passion for helping people discover their own unique and healthy emotional wellbeing is the foundation on which Omega Clinical stands. Beyond her professional responsibilities, Carly actively supports charities such as Nacoa UK, encourages aspiring Psychologists and champions women in business.
Together, Carly and the team have created a dynamic environment where psychotherapeutic ideas are applied to real world problems and where the voices of the people we support sit at the heart of everything we provide.
About Omega Life Clinical
We exist to help people, staff and families reach their highest levels of mental health and wellbeing. Alongside psychology and psychotherapy, our multidisciplinary offer includes Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy for the young people and staff teams we work with. We are proud of how we practise: evidence based, and always kind and person centred. At Omega Life Clinical our role is to guide the people we support to discover for themselves how they can move forward in their lives.
What you'll bring
- A genuine passion for working in schools and educational settings.
- Substantial experience with children and young people who have trauma histories and complex lives. If you have other relevant or transferable skills, tell us about them in your application.
- Training in a relevant therapeutic intervention, for example DDP, CBT, DBT, TLSW or life story work.
- Practical experience assessing and managing the behaviours seen in our settings, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, sexually harmful behaviour and substance misuse.
- Confident use of models and approaches such as child development, trauma informed practice, the Secure Base Model, attachment theory and ACEs.
- A working knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions, together with sensory needs and communication difficulties.
- Registration with the HCPC, or awaiting confirmation if newly qualified.
- The ability to work collegiately with Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy colleagues.
- Skill and confidence in staff consultation and workshop based delivery, exploring each young person's presentation collaboratively with the adults around them.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration, delivered in ways that feel comfortable to you and that help the service reach its aims for children and young people.
- The ability to role model behaviours and attitudes in line with our organisational values.
- IT literacy, which will strengthen your application, although training can be given.
- An understanding of the legislative and regulatory frameworks that apply across all parts of the company.
Our essentials
- Experience providing psychological support or interventions in residential and/or educational settings.
- Understanding of, and strict adherence to, Clinical Governance.
- Active Continuing Professional Development, applied in the workplace.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a varied workload.
- Knowledge of child protection protocols and safeguarding frameworks within education, and a clear understanding of the role clinicians hold in these settings.
- Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Above all, we are looking for someone willing to work in a creative, intuitive, groundbreaking and thoroughly professional way. You will show colleagues how clinicians add value while empowering teams to learn and grow across the board.
Ready to talk?
If this sounds like the kind of role you have been waiting for, we would love to hear from you.
Send your CV to: [email protected]
Prefer a conversation first? Call 0151 487 0055 (option 4) or 07796 523608
We can't wait to explore the difference you could make with Omega Life Clinical.
Omega Life Clinical is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and verification of qualifications. We are committed to quality, equality and valuing diversity in our recruitment and employment practices.
Pay: Up to £60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
Work Location: In person
