Practitioner Psychologist – Enable Inclusion Team
£52,413.00 - £56,728.00 per annum (full-time equivalent, pay award pending)
Permanent contract, to start 1st Sept 2026, Part-time or Full-time considered
Note: Please include in your supporting documentation what your preferred working pattern would be if successful.
Do you believe that timely, evidence-based psychological support can truly promote the wellbeing and prospering of children and young people?
Are you looking for a role where your expertise can shape not just individual outcomes, but whole systems around a child?
We are seeking experienced registered (e.g. with the HCPC, the BABCP or the UKSBA) Practitioner Psychologists to join our community-based service, providing intensive and holistic intervention support for children and young people who are presenting with Emotionally-Based School Avoidance (EBSA) or as at risk of permanent exclusion from education.
This is a highly autonomous and impactful role, giving the opportunity to work across home, education, and community environments. You will bring advanced psychological knowledge to assessment, formulation and intervention, while also leading consultation and contributing to service development within a complex, exciting and evolving landscape.
Please see the job description and person specification for more information about the role and about candidate’s essential and desirable skills.
About us:
Enable Inclusion Team (EIT) is a specialist psychological outreach service for children & young people (CYP), families and schools, and is part of Enable Trust. The team works intensively and collaboratively with schools and families in the wider community to create contexts for CYP to flourish and live their best lives. Primarily, the team’s work centres around support for CYP presenting as at high risk of school exclusion and CYP presenting with emotionally-based school non-attendance (EBSNA).
What we can offer
· Be part of something meaningful, helping children and young people truly thrive
· Make a real difference every day in the lives of young people with complex social, emotional and/or mental health needs.
· Join a warm, passionate, supportive team where people trust and look out for each other
· Work in a culture built on inclusion, respect and a shared sense of purpose
· Grow your career with strong support, development and opportunities to progress
· Feel valued in a workplace that cares about your wellbeing as much as your work
· Help shape a growing Trust where your contribution towards our mission of “achieving more together” genuinely matters.
Join us in a role where your psychological expertise doesn’t just inform practice - it changes lives, creating safer, more understanding environments where every child has the chance to truly be seen, supported, and able to thrive.
Likely interview date: 5th July 2026
Please note: Applications may be viewed on receipt and interviews arranged sooner than the above date.
Enable Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. Short-listed applicants will be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children and young people. We will carry out online searches on all short-listed applicants, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, Part 3, Safer Recruitment. Where given permission to do so, references will be requested for short-listed candidates prior to interview. Candidates attending an interview should expect the interview panel to explore issues relating to safeguarding. All successful applicants will be required to undergo security and vetting checks appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and an enhanced DBS check. Applicants must be aware that it is an offence to apply for a role if barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and young people.
Equality information:
We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.