Creative Therapist / Psychotherapist – Complex Trauma Service (CTS) Shrewsbury

Location: Home based with travel to homes in Shrewsbury, Walsall and Tamworth

Salary: up to £46,178 doe

Permanent – Part time, 24 hours per week

Reports to: Clinical Lead

We are looking for a compassionate and energised therapist to join our Complex Trauma Service (CTS) therapeutic team. This is a new opportunity to be part of an evolving and ambitious therapeutic service supporting looked after children who live with the imprints of developmental trauma. We are committed to creating environments where young people feel safe, understood, connected and genuinely cared for.

Children living in our 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. The Complex Trauma Service is part of the Cambian Group; the UK’s largest provider of specialist services in children’s residential care, education, mental health and learning disability services.

The role will require someone with previous experience of working as a qualified therapist with children and young people in a residential setting, foster care, or related setting within Looked After Children’s services.

We invite applicants from all disciplines to apply; Psychotherapists, Art Psychotherapists, Music, Play, Dance and Movement or Drama Therapists with experience working with looked after children.

Job Role

You will be providing an embedded 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 growing and friendly team.

Essential:

MA level of psychotherapy training / creative arts therapy training
A child centred 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 as per individual professional regulations e.g. HCPC, UKCP, BACP
Be a strong team player, with excellent communication skills, organisational and time management skills
Experience of working with Looked After Children, ideally within residential services