Psychotherapist
Monday to Friday
40 Hours per week
Are you truly passionate about supporting and empowering vulnerable children and young adults.
Can you be compassionate, calm and resilient with a strong understanding for the issues and challenges our young people face? Do you believe you can make a difference in a young person’s life?
If so, then we would love for you to join our friendly, professional and supportive team here at Prosperity Children’s Services.
About Us
At Prosperity Children’s Services we provide care for vulnerable children, young people and families across the Lancashire and Greater Manchester area, within residential children and young people we provide. Our children, young people and families receive support from a small team of incredible Registered Managers and Support Workers who strive to engage, motivate, and instil confidence and life skills aiming for the best possible outcomes for our children, young people and families. Our support services range from working with children and families with short-term needs to delivering long-term bespoke support packages.
About the role:
To offer an integrated approach within our residential children’s homes, offering weekly flexible, one-to-one therapy with our young people. Guide the house team practitioners inproviding therapeutic care to the young people from a person-centered, trauma-informed approach.
Your key responsibilities as the Psychotherapist

• Provide Integrative Psychotherapeutic support within Ofsted registered residential and educational services for children aged 6 to 18 suffering with the impact of attachment and trauma related difficulties.
• Offer an ‘embedded practice’ within our residential care homes and other services, ensuring the delivery of informed care practice
• Deliver direct work with the young people, offering short-term or long-term psychotherapy according to individual needs.
• Develop interventions and strategies to support the day-to-day care of the young people’s unmet developmental needs and the challenges they experience.
• Contribute to the formulation and implementation of plans of specialist psychological treatment and management of the children and young people’s mental health needs. Provide reflective practice sessions for our staff teams working with and educating traumatised children and young people.
• Deliver a training programme in P.A.C.E. and Trauma-Informed Care, providing our staff teams with an insight into how they can contribute to a child’s recovery from trauma and exploring knowledge and skills that support recovery.
• Deliver workshops in team meetings to build on knowledge and practice from a trauma informed and responsive perspective.
• Liaise with families, social workers, commissioning authorities and inter-agency teams, including CAMHS, when appropriate.
• To adhere to your professional body's code of ethics (BACP, UKCP, HCPC) including maintaining accreditation or registration. This includes the BACP’s Competences framework for working with young people.

Essential requirements:

• Professional qualifications in a relevant subject (counselling, psychotherapy, drama/art therapist. Level 6 minimum. Significant recent experience of working with children and young people within a psychotherapeutic or counselling role.
• Member of BACP/UKCP/HCPC or other relevant professional body.
• Ability to relate to and build rapport with young people who have a range of social, emotional and cognitive abilities, as well as with their families and other professionals.
• The ability to identify where thresholds are met for more specialist intervention such as psychological assessment, assess and communicate risk and safeguarding concerns to ensure the safeguarding of our young people and practitioners, and be part of an assessment process to support the young person’s individual needs.
• Excellent literacy, numeracy, written and oral communication skills, including writing comprehensive, detailed reports.
• Good information technology literacy skills, with a knowledge of Word, Power Point and experience of learning database systems for recording and storing information.
• The ability to maintain confidentiality and sensitivity of young people’s information, along with the ability to correctly breech confidentiality where legally and ethically required.
• Full UK Driving Licence required – Travel required for the role

Prosperity Children’s Services is committed to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of all children and young people in our care. All staff have a key role and responsibility in this area.
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of any protected characteristic.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £37,500.00-£42,500.00 per year
Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Psychotherapy: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 13/12/2024
Reference ID: Penny