Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist
Aurora Beeches School, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 5RT5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
19 June 2025
Closing date
24 October 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £47,736.00 - £65,270.40
Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist job summary
Overview and Responsibilities
Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist – Aurora Beeches School
Location: Cranborne, Dorset
Salary: £47,736.00 - £65,270.40
Hours: 40 hours per week
Contract: full time, permanent
About us:
Aurora Beeches School is set in an area of outstanding natural beauty, sitting in 16 acres of listed gardens and a wider 50 acre campus – it is a truly spectacular place to work. The staff pull together to achieve a common goal of empowering their young people through learning, they strive to exceed expectations wherever possible.
At Aurora Beeches School, we believe in giving young people the tools and opportunities to create the lives they want for themselves. With high-quality teaching, an excellent level of individual support and a range of expert-led, integrated therapy, we support students with a range of additional learning needs to create and meet their own goals.
With an established MDT on site, including Psychology, Psychiatry, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy and dedicated therapy spaces, we offer the opportunity for professional development, multidisciplinary and multi-agency working as well as to be part of an innovative service that values new ideas and strives to excel in clinical practice.
The main purpose of the role:
As a Clinical Psychologist, you'll play a key role in shaping the futures of young people by using evidence-based psychological approaches to support their emotional, cognitive, and behavioural development. Your work will directly contribute to preparing them for adulthood and independent living, empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
You will be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team (MDT) and will act as both a clinician and a mentor, supporting young people directly through tailored assessments and interventions, while also guiding non-clinical staff to respond to challenging behaviours and communication needs in ways that promote independence rather than reliance.
Your responsibilities will include conducting psychological assessments using structured interviews and psychometric tools, designing, and delivering both group and individual therapeutic interventions, and contributing to the development of staff training programmes. You'll also work closely with external professionals, supervise Assistant Psychologists, and have the opportunity to innovate and make a lasting impact in a dynamic and supportive environment.
This really is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference, using your skills to help shape brighter, more independent futures for young people, and playing a key role in supporting their journey into adulthood.
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidate qualities:
Experience working with young people with autism and ages 11-16
Doctorate-level clinical qualification in Psychology.
Registered and accredited with Health & Care Profession Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
Demonstrate knowledge and ability to promote the dignity and individuality of young people by encouraging effective communication, making choices and reducing support needs.
Develop positive professional relationships with young people, parents, families and colleagues.
Promote attitudes that value young people with Special Educational Needs as individuals with a right to be treated with respect.
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:
Life assurance
Pension
Perkbox - offering high street discounts
Employee assistance programme
Car lease scheme
Fully funded training and qualifications
Bike to work scheme
Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
If successful, you will have the opportunity to become the newest member of strong therapy team, who consistently bond together as a family and strive to support their young people in their development.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Aurora Beeches School
- School type
- Special school, ages 11 to 16
- School size
- 42 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Aurora Beeches School website
School location
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