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You will need a substantial and meaningful experience of working with children and young people in a social care setting, health or education setting to work as a child therapist.
Role: Therapist
Job Description:
As a child psychotherapist, you will work with children and young people from the ages of six to seventeen years old. These children will have suffered trauma in their formative years, resulting in a range of mental health difficulties, some of which may be severe or long lasting. These may include:
* psychosomatic disorders
* aggression
* developmental delay
* phobias
* depression
* gender dysphoria
* consequences of child abuse
* self-harming
* learning difficulties and disabilities
* eating disorders
Bayleaf Care welcomes applicants from the following disciplines:
* Arts and Creative Therapies
* Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy
* Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
* Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
* Mindfulness
* Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Responsibilities:
* Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of referred children and young people to determine the most appropriate form of treatment.
* Develop specialist programmes of care and individually provide psychotherapeutic treatment to children and adolescents.
* Observe children and young people and respond to their communication through behaviour, play, and non-verbal presentation.
* Tailor your approach to meet the needs of the individual child and work in an age-appropriate way.
* Ensure treatment is integrated with the work of the therapeutic residential staff, in accordance with the placement plan.
* Provide long-term interventions with children and young people, implementing regular psychotherapeutic sessions.
* Attend team meetings and clinical meetings, collaborating with other professionals to assist children in placement.
* Regularly review and monitor the outcomes of assessments and effects of treatment.
* Offer psychotherapeutic advice, training, consultation, and supervision to other professionals contributing to the child's treatment and placement plan.
* Undertake risk assessments and risk management from a child psychotherapy perspective.
Experience:
* Experience delivering therapeutic interventions to children and young people.
* Experience facilitating psychological assessments and formulating treatment plans.
* Significant post-qualification experience, confident in supporting children and young people who have experienced trauma.
* Knowledge of safety factors in managing self-harming behaviours.
* Able to work in a therapeutic manner that responds to a child's needs.
Qualifications:
Essential:
* A relevant professional qualification at Master's Degree level, including: Counselling Psychology, Art Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy/Counselling, CBT, or other approaches; Nursing, Psychology, or other relevant fields, Professional Counselling qualification or similar, e.g., Play Therapy or Integrative Psychotherapy.
* Registered/accredited member of a professional body (such as AFT, BABCP, BPS, BACP, UKCP).
Salary: Thirteen Hours per Week, starting salary: £16,750.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Expected hours: 13 per week
Benefits:
* Casual dress
* Company pension
* Employee discount
* Free parking
* Gym membership
* Life insurance
* On-site parking
* Private medical insurance
* Referral programme
Schedule:
* Day shift
* No weekends
* Overtime
Work Location: In person
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