About this role
Job summary
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
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
The Complex Trauma Service is part of the Cambian Group; the UKs largest provider of specialist services in childrens 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 Childrens services.
We offer excellent training and career progression opportunities as well as a variety of staff benefits.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Psychotherapist/Therapist Complex Trauma Service (CTS)
Salary: up to £46,178 doe
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 peoples 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
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Please refer to job description above
Desirable
- Please refer to job description above
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
The Cambian Group
Address
Shrewsbury
SY1 2HP
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.cambiangroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)