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Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief. It drives us. And it's the reason our Children's Services team push themselves to transform the lives of children and families - in person, in service centres nationwide, and through the knowledge they share. Could you Join us as a Senior Hub Administrator and make a contribution that means everything. The NSPCC Midlands Region Hub, based in Nottingham, has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Administrator to join the Team. Using your excellent administrative and organisational skills you will support the team to promote and delivering a range of services directly to vulnerable children and families with complex risks and needs. The Hub Team comprises: Practitioners, Team Managers, Hub Relationship Manager, Senior Administrator,part-time Administrator and an Assistant Director. You will be part of the Management Team and will provide regular supervision for the part-time Administrator. You will also: organise and minute Management meetings assist with organising Development Sessions/Days/Events coordinate all Health and Safety facilities requirements for the Hub support in the delivery of the regional/national EDI action plan. We are committed to play our part in creating and fostering a society that promotes mutual respect and truly values individuality and difference. All our candidates are considered fairly based on their merit, competence and performance and we are always keen to hear from talented people/candidates from a diverse background. Join us and you'll become part of a team that cares about the work they do and the people they work with. You'll discover opportunities to grow, along with challenges and a shared purpose that'll bring the best out in you. And you'll get to find your own way to make a difference that means more, and that impacts millions of young lives. For further information please contact Kieran Lyons, Assistant Director on

Team Manager - Assessment and Intervention Team Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Assessment & Intervention Team to work full time based in Slough. The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £62,405 per annum. As a member of Slough Children Firsts management team, lead the team providing appropriate support and challenge to ensure the delivery of high-quality services, accurate and timely case file records and the effective use of resources to statutory and legislative requirements. To oversee the distribution of caseloads to ensure that the child or young person's needs are met appropriately. Make clear decisions around threshold for cases that are part of legal planning meetings, strategy decisions, ensuring at each point risk is evaluated and decisions are recorded on the casefile. Carry out regular quality assurance activities including observations, case reviews, team and peer moderated audits that collaboratively involve social work staff to support their professional development, improve the consistency of practice and seek the views of families. Attend Head of Service Performance clinics with a clear narrative for performance in their team and actions to be undertaken to address areas for development. Responsible for the regular and effective appraisal of staff performance through Slough Children First's appraisal process in order to provide clear direction and challenge to prevent drift and delay. Directly supervises the Assistant Team Managers and Senior Social Workers in the team as per Slough Children First supervision policy. As part of Quality Assurance activities, ensure that there is effective direct work undertaken with all children and young people with the voice of the child clearly recorded on case files. Leads team meetings to a high standard, ensuring that service and corporate messages are cascaded to the team in a timely way and supporting effective two way communications back up to managers from the team. Supports the Assistant Team Manager to make effective day-to-day use of all available professional resources, addressing barriers and issues across Slough Children First and with partners where required through the development and maintenance of professional links with partner agencies and the voluntary sector, whilst supporting the links of the Assistant Team Manager. Ensure all interventions are conducted within an anti-discriminatory framework, and take into account issues such as race, gender, sexuality, disability etc, and deliver appropriate services to the diverse communities of Slough. Deputise for the Head of Service, undertake projects and other additional duties, as required. To undertake work outside office hours as necessary. Requirements of this Team Manager role: A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent. Understanding of relevant legislation. Registered or eligible for registration. Substantial experience in health or social care. Contact: This Team Manager job is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements. As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process. Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement. Excellent 1,032 reviews on

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Band 8a The closing date is 23 January 2026 HPFT has a long history of delivering outstanding care, and we are taking our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTT) to the next level, through embedding Trauma Informed Approaches within teams. We meet the needs of individuals living in Hertfordshire experiencing a mental health crisis, providing an MDT approach to understand their difficulties and implementing brief interventions to support the crisis to resolve. This role will also involve in-reaching to a newly established Crisis House that forms part of the wider CRHTT provision within the South-East Team. This is an exciting time of service expansion. We are looking for a caring and committed HCPC registered Band 8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who enjoys working flexibly as part of an MDT to support psychological ways of thinking. Experience of working within crisis services would be beneficial, but not essential. If you have the skills, are energetic, imaginative, care passionately about working with individuals and their families, and enjoy influencing team culture through Trauma Informed Approaches then we want to hear from you! The role is based in the South-East CRHTT, Cygnet House, Ware. Psychology is highly valued and sought after in this team. You will form part of a supportive psychology crisis service whose broad spread of roles gives real opportunity for progression within the service. We don't want you to miss out so - Apply now! Main duties of the job The successful candidate will: Provide a specialist psychology service to service users who are currently in a mental health crisis and are being supported by the South-East Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team, including those accessing the newly established Crisis House. Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions, in both individual and group formats. Provide clinical supervision to the Assistant Psychologists embedded within the team along with advice and consultation to colleagues, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment. Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity, and underpinned by principles of recovery and knowledge of trauma-informed ways of working. Support the development and roll out of Trauma Informed Approaches across HPFT crisis services as we change the question people ask from "What's wrong with you?" to "What's happened to you?" Provide a leadership role within the service to support psychologically informed practice across the team. About us Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country. Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be? If so, then apply! Job responsibilities To work with service users who are in a mental health crisis, to seek to understand and resolve the crisis through psychological means, to support the discharge of those service users back to mainstream services as quickly and safely as possible. To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Services based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory with a focus on Trauma Informed Approaches. For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert. If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application. Person Specification KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE Relevant professional qualification i.e. Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Practitioner Psychologist Clinical Professional qualification doctoral level or equivalent, which should include knowledge and application of research methodology Experience of supervising Band 7 psychological service staff Experience of supervising DClinPsy Trainees AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings Experience of working with wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face off highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse Knowledge of and some experience of cognitive and neuropsychological assessment Experience of working with CRHTT's and/or Crisis Houses Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research etc. Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust £57,888 to £64,880 a year Per annum, Pro rata (5% HCAS Included)