Family Play Therapy Specialist

5 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Red Snapper Recruitment | Housing Full time
Job Title: Family Play Therapy Specialist

Red Snapper Recruitment | Housing is seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Family Play Therapy Specialist to join our team. As a Family Play Therapy Specialist, you will play a vital role in delivering person-centered, age-appropriate, strengths-based support to children and young people affected by domestic abuse.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Manage a caseload of children and young people through their journey within a domestic abuse service, ensuring a strengths-based approach that enables them to realize 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 visualization, 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.
Requirements:
  • A recognized professional qualification in psychotherapy or counseling at a minimum of Dip/PGDip level or above. Educated to degree level and registered with an appropriate professional organization 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 organizing 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-judgmental way and to recognize different and individual needs children may have.


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