Psychotherapist/Therapist – Complex Trauma Service (CTS)
Location: Homes in Shrewsbury (3) Wolverhampton (1) and Walsall (1) with occasional travel to Tamworth as required.
Salary: up to £46,178 doe
Permanent – Full Time, 40 hours (p/t may be considered)
Reports to: Clinical Lead and Clinical Director
This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a growing clinical team as a Therapist supporting children and young people living in our complex trauma homes.
Children living in these homes are between the ages of 5-12 upon arrival, and are most often children with care plans for transition out of residential care, usually for reunification with birth family or into a foster family.
The Complex Trauma Service is part of the Cambian Group; the UK’s largest provider of specialist services in children’s residential care, education, mental health and learning disability services. The post will require someone with previous experience of working as a qualified therapist with children and young people in a CAMHS or related setting and specifically within Looked After Children’s services.
We offer excellent training and career progression opportunities as well as a variety of staff benefits.
Job Role
You will be providing a trauma informed therapeutic service for children and young people through staff training, consultation, individual assessment and direct therapy. The therapist will support staff to build positive and healthy relationships with young people to enable them to grow, develop and achieve their full potential through the use of a range of therapeutic approaches such as DDP, PACE, Therapeutic Parenting etc.
This role will require you to work holistically to help staff develop the children and young people’s wellbeing, independence and social and emotional resiliency, as part of the consultative model and with a multi-disciplinary approach with other professionals involved. You will also be expected to provide individual therapy utilising trauma informed evidence-based approaches.
Further duties are described in the attached Job Description.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, forward thinking Therapist to join our friendly team.
Essential:
A child centered individual who is passionate about enabling children and young people to achieve positive outcomes
Experience of working with children and young people as a qualified therapist
Registered with the relevant professional organisation e.g BACP, HCPC
Be a strong team player, with excellent communication skills
Have excellent communication, organisational and time management skills
Experience of working within CAMHS or other relevant setting
Experience of working with Looked After Children ideally within residential services