Therapist - Children’s Home & Community Settings
Location: Lambeth, London
Salary: £49,550 pro-rata + pension + travel to work expenses + external clinical supervision + wellbeing budget
Hours: Part-Time, either 2 days or 4 days per week
Please note this is our third recruitment campaign for this position. We’ve had an incredible amount of interest, but we’re still searching for the right person to join our team. We’re committed to finding someone who not only has the skills and experience but also shares our passion for truly making a difference in children's lives. If you’re creative and fun and would like to be part of a team that puts love and compassion into everything they do, then we’d love to hear from you.
The role is a part-time position either working 2 days pw or 4 days pw. We are therefore open to recruiting two therapists.
Our Therapists provide 1:1 therapy to children and young people in care aged 13 to 19 years old. You will support the development of critical social and emotional skills to help emotional regulation, improve social skills, and deal with here-and-now issues.
We’re here to make a BIG difference to the lives of the children and young people in our care. We are also passionate about learning and development and committed to providing an outstanding experience for all.
A typical working day will include up to 4 x 1:1 therapy sessions, attending key meetings with the network, and internal meetings around care and safety planning. Working hours are 11.30am to 7.30pm to best serve the needs of the children and young people who are at home or returning home from school/college.
Please note that under Section 7(2) (b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 only women are eligible to apply for the position as a large part of the work will take place at our all-female Children’s Home, Yvonne House.
Do you have?
• A minimum of 2-years' work experience along with an outstanding track record in making a difference to the lives of children and young people.
• An understanding of how previous experiences and present emotions can be communicated through behaviour and have the competence and skills to interpret these, and to help young people do the same.
• Safeguarding competences to identify and act upon signs that a child or young person is at risk of harm.
• An understanding of the challenges in delivering frontline support.
• Ambition matched with a desire for continuous professional development.
Salary & Benefits
We believe all staff should be paid well for work that delivers excellent services and changes the lives of young people in and leaving care.
As a result we offer:
• Highly competitive sector salaries
• Staff well-being initiatives that promote selfcare and underpin reflective practice
• A pension
• A generous training budget
• Paid work-related travel
Timescales
Apply by: As soon as possible, before 5pm Thursday 25th March
Interviews: 1st Round online on Teams from Monday 24th March
Start Date: From late April 2025
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
Investing in our People
We value the importance of determining the right strategy, keeping everyone on board, enhancing our management practices and continuously evaluating what's working or needs further improvement. We deliver services in an increasingly competitive, rapidly changing sector with limited resources.
For us, the effective development of our collective talents and career prospects is the only way we can ensure sustained growth and competitive advantage.
Diversity, Inclusion and Equality
We are committed to embedding inclusive practices, promoting equality and valuing diversity in all of our activities. We understand and acknowledge the positive benefits that this commitment will bring to the young people we support, our staff and our partner organisations.
We are striving to be an employer of choice for all and take measures to ensure that Young Futures is attracting recruits from the most skilled and committed people regardless of their background. Whilst we can already be proud of some examples of excellent practice, we are not complacent and recognise that we can always do better.
For 2024-25 we have set ourselves a number of challenging but achievable targets in our new Inclusion and Equality Action Plan.
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