Counselling: Trauma Therapist

Part time role, 2.5 hours per week. Full time equivalent pay is £25k-£27k p/a.

This part of the Recovery Connections service provides a much-needed support to people on a recovery pathway from addiction who have experienced trauma. The project will provide specialist trauma support offering participants an opportunity to build resilience and work towards recovery.

Applicants will be providing individual gender sensitive, trauma informed, one to one counselling and therapeutic services, including education and therapeutic group work to trauma experienced people with associated substance use within a community and residential rehab settings. The posts include therapeutic delivery and administration support regarding all counselling and therapeutic services/projects.

Applicants will have experience in delivering, brief, mid and long term one to one evidence-based psychological interventions and be able to work from an integrative perspective including humanistic, psychodynamic, psychoeducational, CBT and trauma informed approaches into their work to meet the needs of the client group and be able to develop and facilitate psychoeducational and therapeutic group work as and when required.

Successful applicants will have an in depth knowledge and training in a recognized psychological model/s. Have significant experience of working with domestic abuse, substance use and with complex trauma-based presentations in a therapeutic environment with a minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.

All applicants should be registered with an appropriate professional body.

**Personal Qualities**

**Essential**:

- Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with clients and in personal and professional development and in supervision.
- Highly motivated and committed to supporting recovery from the impacts of trauma that relates to substance misuse.
- Ability to work within a team.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Promote equality and diversity in all aspects of practice.
- Good ethical awareness and ability to deal effectively with ethical dilemmas.
- Manage boundaries effectively, sensitively and ethically.
- Resilience, self-governance, autonomy, good self
- management and self-care.
- Good understanding of Asset Based Community Development ethos
- Understanding of issues relating to substance use and recovery
- Understanding of social exclusion effects
- Understanding of the importance of upholding quality standards, performance monitoring and collating appropriate statistical information for purchasers
- Knowledge of health and safety, including assessing high-risk situations for clients
- A caring attitude with an unprecedented belief that people can and do recover from addiction

**Skills**

**Essential**:

- Good formulation skills to identify treatment for a range of complex psychological presentations.
- Good IT skills.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients and working relationships with colleagues.
- Ability to assess risk and manage appropriately.
- Manage therapeutic boundaries and confidentiality within the setting between clients and project staff.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Skills in delivering brief, medium and long term interventions.
- Good organisational skills
- Good time management skills
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- A flexible open approach
- An empathic and non-judgemental attitude.

**Desirable**:

- Group facilitation skills.
- Insight into the 12 step recovery model within a residential setting.

**Salary**: £12,500.00-£13,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location