Therapist
| Posting date: | 27 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £15,399.43 to £20,761.11 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 December 2025 |
| Location: | Trafford Park, Manchester |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Barnardo's |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 22138 |
Summary
Barnardo's are recruiting staff, so if you are you ready for a new challenge and are passionate about working with children and young people to support their emotional wellbeing, you might be just who we are looking for.
The Service:
The Trafford Emotional health and Wellbeing (EHWB) service supports children and young people across Trafford aged 5 – 13 years to grow up with healthy minds, feel confident and resilient and fulfil their potential. As part of the THRIVE ‘Getting Help' model Barnardo's provides therapeutic one to one, group work and counselling support in the community.
We are looking for people who are passionate about:
· Children's and Young people's emotional health and wellbeing
· Improving outcomes for children and young people
The Role:
Working days: Monday to Friday - to be agreed
Working hours: 18.5
Office base: to be confirmed
Working in a variety of school and community venues
The ability to travel across the Trafford locality is essential
You will offer brief interventions via 1:1 wellbeing sessions and therapeutic group work covering emotional literacy and emotional regulation.
There will be an emphasis on:
Providing a blended approach of digital and face to face sessions
Maintaining active engagement on all safeguarding matters
Ensuring accurate recording for reporting purposes
Successful candidates must:
Hold a diploma level qualification in counselling, child and adolescent psychotherapy, art, play, drama or music therapy which has included a practicum of at least 100 hours of supervised practice.
Have considerable experience of delivering counselling to children and young people
Have an awareness of emotional challenges and how these impact the lives of children and young people.
Have a knowledge of child and adolescent development and the role of the family in supporting children and young people's emotional well-being.
Have comprehensive understanding of children's safeguarding.
Need to be adaptable and deliver support via multiple methods; face to face, telephone or video call.
Have case management experience and a clear understanding of the requirement for professional and accurate case notes.
It would be beneficial to have access to a car due to the regular travel required in this role.
Although this contract is fixed term until end of October 2026, there may be potential to extend subject to funding.
Additional Information:
You must demonstrate in your application that you currently use the skills outlined above, and in the Job Description/Person Specifications, or have used them previously in employment, education, training, volunteering etc. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
Need more information?
If you require any further information about these opportunities, please contact Anne Patchett, Barnardo's Programme Manager on mob 07880 003642 or email: anne.patchett@barnardos.org.uk
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Our basis and values
The Service:
The Trafford Emotional health and Wellbeing (EHWB) service supports children and young people across Trafford aged 5 – 13 years to grow up with healthy minds, feel confident and resilient and fulfil their potential. As part of the THRIVE ‘Getting Help' model Barnardo's provides therapeutic one to one, group work and counselling support in the community.
We are looking for people who are passionate about:
· Children's and Young people's emotional health and wellbeing
· Improving outcomes for children and young people
The Role:
Working days: Monday to Friday - to be agreed
Working hours: 18.5
Office base: to be confirmed
Working in a variety of school and community venues
The ability to travel across the Trafford locality is essential
You will offer brief interventions via 1:1 wellbeing sessions and therapeutic group work covering emotional literacy and emotional regulation.
There will be an emphasis on:
Providing a blended approach of digital and face to face sessions
Maintaining active engagement on all safeguarding matters
Ensuring accurate recording for reporting purposes
Successful candidates must:
Hold a diploma level qualification in counselling, child and adolescent psychotherapy, art, play, drama or music therapy which has included a practicum of at least 100 hours of supervised practice.
Have considerable experience of delivering counselling to children and young people
Have an awareness of emotional challenges and how these impact the lives of children and young people.
Have a knowledge of child and adolescent development and the role of the family in supporting children and young people's emotional well-being.
Have comprehensive understanding of children's safeguarding.
Need to be adaptable and deliver support via multiple methods; face to face, telephone or video call.
Have case management experience and a clear understanding of the requirement for professional and accurate case notes.
It would be beneficial to have access to a car due to the regular travel required in this role.
Although this contract is fixed term until end of October 2026, there may be potential to extend subject to funding.
Additional Information:
You must demonstrate in your application that you currently use the skills outlined above, and in the Job Description/Person Specifications, or have used them previously in employment, education, training, volunteering etc. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
Need more information?
If you require any further information about these opportunities, please contact Anne Patchett, Barnardo's Programme Manager on mob 07880 003642 or email: anne.patchett@barnardos.org.uk
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Our basis and values
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.