Centre Therapist

**Basic salary**: £35,000 - £40,000 pro-rata

**Benefits**: 30 days Annual Leave (rising to 35 with length of service) + Bank Holidays, Company Pension, Life Assurance x2 & Employee Discount Scheme **(benefits to be pro-rata’d)**

**Location: Bromsgrove**

**About Us**

Set up in 1987 by a small but passionate group of foster parents, we became the UK’s first independent foster care agency. That gives us the benefit of over 30 years' of fostering experience and we’re still going strong

The founder members recognised that looked after children - especially those who’d had very difficult starts in life - needed specialist support. So right from the beginning they put the child at the centre of their thinking and surrounded them with an integrated range of support services. In fact, that's what ISP means: Integrated Service Programme.

Over time, this circle of support has increased to include a whole range of professionals that children and foster parents can tap into, whenever they need to. This includes social workers, fostering advisors, teachers and therapists, who all work with our foster parents and the children they look after, helping them understand and manage even the most challenging situations. This is what’s known as a ‘therapeutic approach’ to fostering and it’s something that we pioneered.

**Role Responsibilities**:
We are looking for a skilled Therapist to join our wonderful team at Bromsgrove. You will be responsible for carrying out core Therapy activities with children and young people at our Centre, and run one to one therapy, assessments, foster care consultations and network meetings.
- Responsible for the delivery of Therapy and Therapy services within the Centre in consultation with the Registered Manager and Head of Therapy, within the Therapy budget framework
- Undertaking initial triage of children and young people for Therapy at the Centre in line with ISP guidelines
- Guiding and case managing self-employed Therapists that are engaged at the Centre
- Maintain practice and records that are consistent with GDPR, professional practice and ISP policy
- Working proactively within a multi-disciplinary team and inter-agency networks to include attendance at meetings, facilitating peer supervision and reflective practice consultations, ad hoc ‘task and finish’ interventions and maintaining positive working relationships with other professionals
- Make specialist contribution to developing and delivering professional training programmes

**Requirements**:

- Qualified Therapist, Counsellor or Psychotherapist with current professional registration
- Hold a qualification in clinical supervision
- Proven experience providing therapy to children and young people with SEMH and their parents or carers in a multidisciplinary and multiagency organisational context
- Knowledge and experience of trauma-informed and structured Therapy and Psychotherapy both brief and long term
- Applied knowledge of child and adolescent development and presentations and interventions around complex developmental trauma, sexualised behaviour, neurodiversity children and young people
- Confident managing high pressure conflict situations, uncertainty, rapid change and distress. Flexible, resilient, Equanimeous and collaborative in working style. You build working relationships that can withstand divergent perspectives and agendas and reach sufficient and practicable consensus to move forward.
- Experienced at effective multidisciplinary team working, including organisationally held confidentiality, effective interagency collaboration, shared decision-making, safeguarding and risk planning.
- High standard of assessment skills and report writing.

For an informal conversation about this position please contact Hayley Haughton on 07890 274380

To be considered for this post please hit apply.

ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment

INDHP

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 14 per week

**Salary**: £35,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: REF-20-GYIRG67