Psychotherapist

**Full Job Description**:
**Work less hours to do the stuff you love doing**

**Job Title: Psychotherapist**

**Location: Baston House School, Bromley**

**Salary: £25,334 - £55,000 pro rata, per annum dependent on experience**

**Hours: 22.5 hours - 30 hours (3 to 4 days per week)**

**Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only**

**About the role**

We are looking for an experienced psychotherapist to join our Clinical Hub working as a key integrated member of our clinical and education team in our established Baston House School clinical team. In this role, you will work collaboratively to deliver bespoke assessment and intervention plans for Autistic children and young people.

You will implement a holistic, therapeutic approach to helping our children and young people in their daily lives, ensuring they are safe, comfortable, and healthy. Undertaking all aspects of psychotherapy clinical duties, you will adhere to professional and regulatory guidelines, carrying out specialist individual assessments and interventions, and preparing relevant documentation, including writing reports. You will work both individually and alongside other professionals in the clinical team to deliver your intervention.

Our well-established multidisciplinary Clinical Team maintain a nurturing and loving environment where our children can flourish. Always putting our children and young people at the forefront of everything they do. All our settings maintain a strong safeguarding culture, and our children and young people are heard, respected and involved in decisions that affect them wherever possible.

When it comes to looking after our children, we strive for excellence, which is why we are the leading children services provider in the UK. With this in mind, we are looking for a psychotherapist who shares our vision; to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people in the UK to be happy and to make their way in the world.

Location: Baston House School, Bromley

**About the Group**

Outcomes First Group is the largest independent provider of high quality foster care and special needs education and care. We are a vital part of local communities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with a renowned reputation for quality and positive outcomes for the people we educate and care for.

We are really proud to say that in October 2021, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the third year running.

Our divisional brands include Acorn Education and Care, National Fostering Group and Options Autism.

**Essential Criteria**:

- Recognised and relevant psychotherapy qualification
- Full membership with a recognised psychotherapy professional body
- Experience within the specialist client group. (complex communication issues relating to autism, language disorder, sensory impairment, learning disabilities/difficulties and associated challenging behaviour, gross and fine motor skill difficulties)
- Experience of working within an educational setting would be advantageous
- Relevant post-qualification experience working as a psychotherapist
- Skills in co-working, liaison and consultation with others, especially with regard to highly complex cases
- Specialist knowledge of psychotherapy assessments and interventions
- Ability to carry out both 1:1 and group sessions
- Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to the specific client group, their carers and families and a wide range of professionals outside the service

**Why work for us?**

**Alongside working with a network of clinical colleagues with regular forums for peer reflection and practice development, Outcomes First Group offer an array of flexible benefit options.**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.**

**JOB ID 194647