Blackstone Recruitment are working with a private client who offer residential care, education and therapeutic services for 6 to 18 year olds and are currently recruiting for a Creative Psychotherapist.
About the role:
You will provide a therapeutic service which is rooted in trauma and attachment informed models of care and is strongly led by a “brain-based” approach. You will be art of the clinical team to provide needs, risk, strengths-based assessments and use a PACE informed approach to provide clinical consultations and training to our therapeutic care staff.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide specialist direct and indirect therapeutic assessment and intervention for children and adolescents.
- Complete therapeutic reports, clinical formulations and therapeutic care plans for the children we care for.
- Work as part of a MDT and within a Team around the Child framework.
- Support residential carer’s to build and connect with their key children from an attachment perspective and using principles underpinned by PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy.
- Have knowledge of safeguarding and risk in relation to working with children and young people.
- Provide consultation to residential care staff underpinned by a brain-based, trauma informed approach.
- Hold a clinical case load in providing specialist trauma informed therapy for our children.
- Work therapeutically with children using a range of approaches dependent on what matches their needs and capacity to tolerate the work.
- Be able to make autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Provide training for residential care staff and other professionals within the organisation.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise:
- To have at least 2 years relevant experience post qualification.
- Be registered with HCPC or equivalent governing body.
- Have excellent written and verbal communication, particularly making complex information meaningful.
- Be motivated and have a genuine passion and care for children who have experienced trauma.
- Must hold a Full UK Drivers Licence due to travelling to various homes in the Shropshire region
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Enrolment into pension scheme
- Company sick pay
- Comprehensive, paid induction training (that is accredited through the Bild Association of Certified Training) and ongoing training within the role
- Fantastic opportunities for career development, we promoted over 50 colleagues last year
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Green Car scheme
- A £500 bonus via our 'Refer a Friend’ scheme
- Monthly recognition awards
- Casual dress code
- Access to big-brand deals and discounts via our employee benefits scheme E-Together
- Food available whilst on shift
- Free parking
- A day off for your birthday (in addition to your holiday entitlement)
- Access to a holiday home based in the Peak District where you can stay for free, on the company!
- The opportunity to make a real difference to a child's life!
About our client:
With over 35 years of residential childcare experience, our client now has more than 65 residential children’s and assessment homes, and five schools, that are spread across the Kent, Hertfordshire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, Bedfordshire, Nottinghamshire, West Midlands and Northamptonshire regions of England.
This also includes our online school accessible to children throughout the UK which helps to deliver education to children missing education by utilising our specialised Turning the Curve education programme.
With over 700 team members and over 200 young people supported we strive to help our children achieve their very best outcomes, through our bespoke residential care, education, therapeutic and activity-led wraparound services.
Please APPLY now or contact Kirsty on 0203 146 9848 / kirsty.chasmer@blackstone-recruitment.co.uk