Job Ref: 215383994

Date: 2021-12-15 09:14:48

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Changing Minds UK have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist in Sport/Performance to join the team.
Location: We are inviting applications from the Midlands, Greater London and the surrounding counties.
Salary: From £40000 per year plus benefits
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Do you want to provide effective, creative, and meaningful psychological support within Elite Sport and High-Performance Environments?
About Us:
Changing Minds UK are a team of Applied Psychologists who pride ourselves in providing ethical, high quality, innovative psychological services for individuals and organisations across a range of settings including high performance sport and business. Working within the UK and beyond, we aim to empower people and systems through creative and meaningful psychological practice.
We work closely with a range of organisations, both at a national and international level and our partners include: professional clubs in football, rugby, cricket, basketball and baseball; National Governing Bodies across both professional and Olympic / Paralympic sport; UK businesses and multi-national corporations; educational settings and sport facing charities.
Clinical Psychologist in Sport/Performance – The Role:
Changing Minds are offering an exciting opportunity for an Early Career Clinical Psychologist to join our Performance Services Team. This innovative and exciting role will involve providing individual and systemic psychological support across one (or more) of our key contracts within sport and business, with the aim of supporting people to ‘Perform Well®' and develop more psychologically-informed performance systems.
We are inviting applications from the Midlands, Greater London and the surrounding counties. Some virtual, home-based working (a laptop will be provided) is possible, but the role will also involve face-to-face working and some travel to various organisations across the region, according to the needs of our clients.
We offer our employees a supportive team environment with a focus on collaboration and development, whilst working into some exciting and fast paced organisations. We aim to ‘look after our people’, so good quality clinical supervision and staff wellbeing initiatives are prioritised. We offer an attractive package of employee benefits including our generous annual leave allowance, pension, comprehensive health insurance, and employee discount scheme.
ALL APPLICANTS REQUIRE (OR ARE NEAR TO COMPLETING) A DOCTORATE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY OR EQUIVALENT, CONFERRING ELIGIBILITY FOR HCPC REGISTRATION AS A PRACTITIONER PSYCHOLOGIST.
Clinical Psychologist in Sport/Performance – Key Responsibilities:
– Working flexibly within a range of contracts (e.g., sports and business settings) alongside colleagues from the Performance Services Team, supporting people to Perform Well®
– Working systemically with coaches, managers, support and executive staff to develop Psychological Informed Performance Systems
– Providing psychological consultations and assessments, and providing a range of individual (or group) therapeutic interventions based on a psychological understanding of needs and most up to date evidence base
– Undertaking risk assessment, formulation, and management for individual clients and providing advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
– Developing materials and delivering (or co-delivering) training sessions and workshops for staff teams and parents/carers
– Facilitating well-being forums, team formulations, reflective practice sessions and staff support groups
Clinical Psychologist in Sport/Performance – You:
– We are looking for someone who is compassionate, empathic, playful, collaborative and who enjoys working as part of a team
– They must have integrity, good self (and other) awareness, be hardworking, courageous, and able to sensitively challenge and influence others
– Doctoral level training in Clinical or other relevant applied psychology (e.g., Counselling Psychology)
– Registration with the Health Care and Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
– Experience of working with a broad range of client groups, with a varied range of presenting needs across the lifespan
– Experience and skills in psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based intervention.
– Experience of work in multidisciplinary team/multi-agency contexts
– Experience and skills in undertaking risk assessments, recognising safeguarding concerns and acting appropriately, following safeguarding guidance and processes
– Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, interpretation, and practice and – Experience of research and service evaluation within a clinical context
– Ability to engage well with a range of clients, teams, and systems
We are aware that clinical psychology as a profession is often not representative of the populations we support. As an organisation we are committed to promoting inclusivity and diversity and welcome applicants from everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, faith, sexuality, and gender identity.
To apply for this exciting Clinical Psychologist in Sport/Performance opportunity, please include a covering letter explaining why you want to work with us in this role, along with your CV. Closing date for applications: Monday 3rd January 2022

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