Senior Therapist

1 month ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent County Council Full time

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£43,216 to £49,323 per annum, in addition you may be eligible for an annual £2,000 car market premium and a one-off £2000 'Golden Hello'.

We are a motivated, multi-disciplinary, Adoption Support Service who are passionate about and committed to supporting adopted children and their families into adulthood. We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist, Systemic Family Therapist or Counselling Psychologist to join our service as a Senior Therapist..

You will provide trauma-informed, therapeutic interventions to children and their families who have been placed for adoption or are adopted. We take a child-centred approach and believe each family is unique. We offer varied therapeutic interventions such as: parent work, family work, individual work, groups and consultation with the network. Our team draws on a range of therapeutic models and theories including: Attachment, Regulation and Competency Model (ARC), Systemic, Developmental Trauma, Attachment, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Theraplay, Non-Violent Resistance (NVR), Life-Story Work, Narrative, and Sensory Integration.

We strongly believe in the value of multi-disciplinary working and supporting professional development and growth. Our teams consists of: Social Workers, Family Therapists, and an Occupational Therapist. We are passionate about team working and our regular team meetings form a core part of our approach. We would welcome someone who shares these values.

If you have clinical experience, with children who have experienced developmental trauma or have been in care and/or adopted, work well with complexity and want to be part of a growing, trauma-informed service then we would be keen to hear from you.

**About Us**:
Adoption Partnership South East is a regional adoption agency, delivering trauma-informed adoption services for the London Borough of Bexley, Kent County Council, and Medway Council. Bringing together our expertise, we are committed to achieving the best for all our children across the region. Our agencies merged from three local adoption agencies to one regional adoption service in November 2020.

**Requirements**:
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

For further information about the role responsibilities and selection criteria, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Interviews will be held on 9th April.

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