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Therapist

Job details
Posting date: 02 April 2024
Salary: £32,000 to £40,000 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 02 May 2024
Location: SE11 6EE
Company: Sanctuary Personnel
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 206139-430332

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Summary

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Children and Young People's Therapist to work full-time in a residential setting. The salary for this permanent position is £32,000 - £40,000 per annum.

Hours: Part Time (3 days, 24 hours)

Includes: external clinical supervision, a wellbeing budget of £25 per month with wellbeing time factored into working hours, opportunities for training and CPD, EAP, cycle to work scheme, pension with Nest

The Role:

• ·Emotionally support young people in and leaving the care of their local authority, in both residential and community settings, to help them reach their full potential. This is achieved through providing 1:1 therapy that meets each young person’s needs - here and now issues as well as those recorded in their plans - taking account of their background; help them understand and manage the impact of any experience of complex trauma, abuse, or neglect; and help them develop the resilience and skills that prepare them to live independently as an adult.
• ·Alongside 1:1 therapeutic work with young people, you will work with colleagues from the Therapy Team to provide 1:1 staff support sessions and facilitate group spaces for the Residential and Community Teams.
• ·Working week breakdown, after 3 months’ probation: up to 4 x 1:1 therapy/support sessions per day.

Knowledge and Skills:

• ·Skills to identify and act upon signs that a child or young person is at risk of harm.
• ·Good understanding of the importance and limits of confidentiality within a therapeutic context. ·An understanding of how previous experiences and present emotions can be communicated through behaviour and have the competence and skills to interpret these, and to help young people do the same.
• ·Trained in at least one of the following approaches: Art’s based Therapies; Psychotherapy, Counselling, CBT.
• ·Recognise incidents or indications of bullying and how to deal with them.
• ·Understanding of challenges of delivering frontline support.

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 as soon as possible. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Contact:

This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more, as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, we are regretfully 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 reflects the clients that candidates will support within their roles. This very much played a significant part in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care at the Recruiter Awards, as well as 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).

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