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Ref no:
KIB00105
Published:
10/10/2019
Closes:
24/10/2019
Location:
Kibble Education and Care Centre, Goudie Street, PA3 2LG
Salary:
£30,785 - £37,136 per year
Contract Type:
Permanent, Temporary
Position Type:
Full Time, Part Time
Hours:
37 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a therapist to join our Specialist Intervention Services team on a 3-year, fixed-term contract (with potential for extension). We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated professional who will play a key role in the delivery of therapeutic trauma-informed services to children (aged 5-12) who have experienced childhood adversity. The team is known for taking an integrative approach, being creative and responsive to ensure that children and their families get the right support, at the right time, using the right therapeutic approach. You would be joining a multi-disciplinary team including; forensic psychology, counselling, art therapy, play therapy, systemic family therapy, CBT and DBT.

Your role will involve providing individual, group and family therapeutic intervention and consultancy to children in our early years’ service.

This role is part of Kibble’s Nurturing Young Lives Project, and part funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, Improving Lives Programme and The Robertson Trust, until October 2022.

Job Purpose:

As a child therapist, you'll offer psychoanalytic treatment to children with emotional or behavioural difficulties, including:

  • trauma
  • emotional dysregulation
  • anxiety
  • development delay
  • aggression
  • consequences of child abuse
  • self-harming
  • suicidal ideation
  • learning difficulties
  • eating disorders

You will use a multidisciplinary approach to work within the context of the child's life, for example their family or school. Your relationship with the child is central to treatment.

You may see a child individually, in a group with other children, or with parents or other family members. You may also see parents or carers without the child being present.

Main Responsibilities

As a child and adolescent psychotherapist, you'll will:

  • carefully observe children and respond to what they might be communicating through their behaviour and play
  • provide assessment and treatment of children as individuals or in a group
  • tailor your approach to the individual child and work in an age-appropriate way. You might use play or drawing techniques with younger children, but talk about feelings with pre-teens
  • provide short-term and long-term interventions with children and/or parents/carers, ranging from a few sessions to regular appointments over a long period of time
  • work alongside other professionals in planning how best to help a child and the child's family
  • offer training, consultation and supervision to other professionals who work with children and families
  • keep up-to-date with developments in theory and research and undertake continuing professional development (CPD)
  • demonstrate highly effective verbal and written communication skills and establish robust communication networks with other professionals, agencies and carers as appropriate
  • identify key issues affecting children and work with agencies responsible for addressing these to help ensure they are responded to
  • be responsible for receiving appropriate clinical supervision with an appropriately qualified supervisor in line with professional registration as agreed with the Operations Manager
  • attend regular training to keep updated i.e. integrated training on how to work with children
  • participate in the monitoring requirements of the service by producing required statistical and written reports when required

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

· Accredited Masters degree (or equivalent) and substantial experience of working with children and their families (child & adolescent psychotherapy, art therapy, play therapy, drama therapy, systemic family work)

· Professional registration with HCPC, BAAT (or equivalent)

· Understanding of severe and enduring mental health problems

· Experience of working with children/young people and families with complex needs. This can be from a range of settings, including social care, health and education.

· Maturity, patience and a calm, respectful manner

· Ability to deal with difficult, perhaps painful and humiliating situations

· Excellent interpersonal, communication and listening skills

Notes:

This job outline reflects the main tasks and responsibilities discharged by the postholder at the present time, however, Kibble reserves the right to alter or amend the content of this job outline to reflect changes to the job or services provided, while maintaining the overall character and level of responsibility for the post.

Notwithstanding any information or statement described within this job outline, all duties must be carried out in a way that promotes equality of opportunity, dignity and respect for all individuals and which is consistent with Kibble’s stated policy on equal opportunities.

The successful candidate will be required to become a member of the PVG Scheme. Having previous convictions will not automatically disbar you from working at Kibble (with the exception of offences against children or other vulnerable groups) and every case is taken on an individual basis.