Mental Health Practitioner

Therapist - Complex Trauma Service (CTS)

Location: Shrewsbury/Tamworth area

Salary: up to £46,178 doe

Permanent - Full Time, 40 hours (p/t may be considered)

Reports to: Clinical Director and the person nominated by them to be your line manager/supervisor

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 people's 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

Salary / Benefits

From: £46178 To: £46178 per year