Child Psychotherapist

Location: Prospex Youth Centre Piper Close N78TQ
Part time 7.5 hours fixed term contract to be reviewed annually.
5 hours equivalent to 1 day a week. Flexible days working with young people after school
Prospex is grassroots, Islington-North London-based youth charity, supporting young people aged 8-21 whose life chances are affected through measures outside their control; poverty, social deprivation, high unemployment, and crime. Through the provision of positive relationships together with transferable life and employability skills, young people can broaden their horizons outside the limits of their existing thinking and are given the tools to achieve their goals.
We have recently acquired a space close to the Youth Centre for psychotherapy sessions to take place and have a space for art therapy.
Purpose: to provide high quality, face to face, psychotherapy to children and young people that are referred through the team.
Based in North London at our Youth Centre, The Underground – 2 minutes from Caledonian Road tube station (Piccadilly Line)
The role: the initial focus will be to provide individual, face to face, psychotherapeutic sessions/work with young people.
Experience of providing 1:1 face to face psychotherapy, preferably with young people but psychotherapists with other relevant experience may be considered.
An understanding of the highly complex factors, including developmental processes, which impact on young people.
An understanding of safeguarding matters and procedures in relation to working with young people.
Excellent communicator, able to establish positive and effective psychotherapeutic relationships with young people, but also as professional relationships with a wide range of team members in the organisation. To complete administrative tasks such as end of therapy reports.
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