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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Family Play Therapy Worker to join our team at Red Snapper Group. As a Family Play Therapy Worker, you will play a vital role in delivering person-centred, age-appropriate, strengths-based support to children and young people affected by domestic abuse.
Key Responsibilities:- Manage a caseload of children and young people through their journey with our domestic abuse service, ensuring a strengths-based approach that enables them to realise their potential.
- Offer support, advocacy, and information to all children and young people and produce individual support plans for each child and young person that include actions identified and required from the above assessments, working closely alongside the team to offer awareness and co-delivery of support.
- Undertake a therapeutic assessment of the needs of the child/young person to determine their suitability for play therapy.
- Plan and provide direct and indirect play therapy opportunities that encourage children and young people to develop and express themselves through activities and play on a one-to-one and group basis using a variety of interventions such as storytelling, malleable materials, drama, art, puppets, sand play, games, music, movement, creative visualisation, and role play, measuring progress and effectiveness of techniques throughout.
- Encourage co-production with children and young people, using a range of engagement techniques to seek the views of those on the service and explore any ideas/improvements for future service provision.
- Build good working relationships with parents and develop effective partnership working to achieve best outcomes, value, and quality in delivery of the service. Providing parents with relevant information and supporting access to local services for them and their children such as support and therapeutic groups, children and young people's services, health teams, local schools, and nurseries.
- Participate in multi-agency meetings, including Child in Need and Child Protection meetings, care planning meetings with other health professionals, and safeguarding reviews.
- Maintain confidentiality and ensure that professional boundaries are observed when working with customers, staff, and external bodies.
- A recognised professional qualification in psychotherapy or counselling at a minimum of Dip/PGDip level or above. Educated to degree level and registered with an appropriate professional organisation relevant to therapy modality (e.g. UKCP, AFT, ACP, BACP, BAAT, HCPC, BADth, BAPT, etc).
- Demonstrable experience of providing outcomes-focused therapy to children, young people, and their families.
- A good understanding of theories of child development and attachment.
- Experience of organising and providing appropriate play and other activities.
- An in-depth understanding of the impact of domestic abuse on children and young people.
- The ability to work in a non-judgemental way and to recognise different and individual needs children may have.
- An understanding of health and safety requirements in providing services for children.
- Understanding of and a commitment to compliance in Safeguarding and Child Protection.
- Evidence of the ability to build and develop supportive relationships with women and their children maintaining professional boundaries.
- Proven experience of caseload management, with a clear focus on outcomes for customers and their wider community.
- Ability to demonstrate partnership working with specialist agencies such as mental health teams, offending services, or other relevant services.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work in a professional manner with a number of different agencies, including representation at multi-disciplinary meetings.
- Ability to work under pressure and using your own initiative.
- Ability to work positively and creatively with support needs.
- Numerate and literate to GCSE standard, IT literate, and able to use all Microsoft packages.
- Experience of using a Housing Management System, or similar software.
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