Wellbeing Practitioner

3 days ago


Reading, United Kingdom PAWS People and Animal Wellbeing Services CIC Full time

PAWS (People & Animal Wellbeing Services) is one of the UK's Leading authorities on Animal Assisted Learning and Animal Assisted Interventions.

We proudly provide therapeutic interventions, wellbeing support and counselling services to individuals, educational establishments and organisations, safely incorporating dogs to assist in this essential work.

Due to ever increasing demand we are looking to fill multiple self employed positions covering Surrey and Berkshire.

If you have a dog that loves being with people and is confident and happy, you are experienced in SEN education and therapies and you're passionate about making a difference to the current state of the population’s mental health then we would love to hear from you.

We provide full training using our PAWS therapy dog certification and you will become part of an incredible team of like minded individuals.

Successful applicants will:

- Be a qualified counsellor, therapist, educator or have significant experience working with families and young people with additional needs;
- Be able to provide counselling/therapy/wellbeing sessions to individuals with additional needs
- Successfully complete our Therapy Dog Certification Programme (provided by us) to ensure you will provide sessions to the standards of PAWS.
- Be willing to take part in ongoing training and supervision sessions.
- Be able to work independently with clients and adapt to their varying needs.
- Have a full clean driving licence.
- Have excellent communication, collaboration and organisational skills
- Have excellent time-keeping skills and an ability to meet targets and deadlines and work independently.
- Have a dog that is suitable to work therapeutically with clients.
- Have a good understanding of dogs and dog behaviour.
- Support force-free and positive reinforcement training
- Dog Training/handling or behaviour.
- Neurodivergence
- Therapy work or Counselling;
- Social Work
- Education

Please ensure you have provided a cover letter so we can find out a little more about you and;
- Why you have applied for this job,
- Why you think animals are beneficial to our mental wellbeing,
- Your experience in working with our client base
- Why you think you’ll be successful in delivering animal assisted interventions.

So we know you have properly read the job description please include within your cover letter the words ‘peanut butter’.

Please note due to the high volume of applicants for this role we will only contact those that are shortlisted and meet the criteria above.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: From £25.00 per hour

Expected hours: 8 - 20 per week

**Benefits**:

- Flexitime

Application question(s):

- Do you have a qualification as a counsellor, therapist, educator or have significant experience working with families and young people with additional needs;

**Education**:

- Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Education: 1 year (preferred)
- delivering one to one wellbeing support: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Reading, Berkshire (required)

Work Location: In person



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