Child Psychotherapist or Creative Arts

**apricotcentre**
Apricot Centre for Wellbeing
Huxhams Cross Farm
Rattery Lane
Dartington
Totnes
TQ9 6AA

**Job Description & Person Specification for an HCPC / UKCP / BACP registered Child Psychotherapist or Creative Therapist (i.e. Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Drama Therapy) for the Apricot Centre**
**Wellbeing Service**

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
To work by agreed contract (predefined costed interventions) and able to deliver:

- Specialist Assessments, including contributing to multidisciplinary assessments
- 1:1 Therapy with children, adolescents or adults - with a range of trauma and attachment informed intervention
- Therapeutic Parenting work
- Group Work with groups of young people or parent/carers
- Therapeutic work in nature-based environments (e.g. Biodynamic Farm)
- Hold or contribute to multi professional meetings and therapeutic reviews
- Write professional reports using the ACWS report templates and GSuite

**SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- To work with the Service Manager and ACWS Leads to ensure that services are delivered professionally and within our external and internal contracts.
- To regularly keep up to date with service guidance through case supervision, updates and peer/team supervisions
- To attend Peer Supervision meetings at least 8 per year (or a time period of different level through agreement with management)
- To attend 1x annual review meeting to discuss the development of your role and practice
- To work within the code of ethics of your registered practice.
- To maintain a safe and healthy working environment for the young people - including working closely with ACWS safeguarding and child protection policies.
- To keep accurate, clearly written, understandable and up to date records of your work, communications, reviews, reports.
- To safely store and archive all therapeutic records in a confidential environment according to the ACWS information policies. This involves recording on our CRM system.
- To write reports where necessary for relevant third partie
- To work closely with GDPR processes developed within ACWS to gain explicit consent from our service users.**TERMS AND CONDITIONS**:

- To ensure your professional qualifications, professional registration/s, extended DBS, professional insurance, and your Safeguarding and other mandatory Trainings are always up to date.
- Practitioner to hold self-employed status and to hold valid professional liability insurance cover at all times while working for ACWS.
- To have attended a Level 2 Safeguarding Training within the last 2 years
- To be familiar with and work according to ACWS’ codes of conduct, policies, procedures and the files on the young people.
- Unless there is an emergency, to complete all work pre agreed according to the timeframes and conditions of the intervention, unless a change is discussed and agreed formally with the service manager or coordinator.
- To work according to the pre-agreed rates and times agreed within each individual contract/intervention, and to raise with managers before the onset of work if the conditions are not satisfactory.
- To attend a minimum of 8 peer supervisions per annum while working directly with ACWS. If not working regularly to maintain a minimum of 4 peer supervisions per year. Also to maintain your own private clinical supervision at a minimum level of 1 supervision hour per 15 clinical hours of sessions.
- On request to provide us with an up to date record of your trainings, certifications, registrations and professional memberships, and any other information required to ensure you are fit to practice..
- To invoice monthly (unless otherwise agreed) for work undertaken.

**REQUIREMENTS**:
Bureau.
- To maintain a confidential record of all sessions undertaken within 24 hours of each session, and to record and respond immediately to any safeguarding concerns.

**ATTITUDE**
- A wish to grow and develop both professionally and personally:

- A willingness to engage in creative dialogues around your clients and team involvement.
- A willingness to learn new IT skills and procedural systems.
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- **Person Specification: Apricot Centre Wellbeing Service**

KEY: E = Essential, D = Desirable A = Application form,
I = Interview, S= Short listing criteria

**Requirement Essential/ Desirable**

**Assess from**

**Qualifications**

A degree accredited by the BPS (British Psychological Society), and three years of postgraduate study (leading to a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology) E,
A, I, S

Diploma or qualification in a relevant psychotherapeutic, systemic or advanced counselling approach relevant to working with young people or families D, A, I, S

**Experience**

A minimum of a year of relevant clinical work experience. E, A, I, S

Experience and track record of therapeutic work with Young People and
Carers/Parents with complex presentations E, A, I, S

Having experienced personal therapy E, A, I, S

Experience and confidence in attending multidisciplinary meetings D, A, I,