Careers

Reporting to:  Head of Therapy Services

Salary: £35k-45k equivalent depending on experience

Hours/week: Minimum Three/Fours days a week

Meadows Care is a provider of therapeutic residential children’s homes. Based across the North West of England and in the Midlands we provide wraparound support for children and young people who have experienced developmental and relational trauma.

We are seeking Therapeutic Social Worker to join our growing therapy service. This role will involve leading the therapeutic input to one or more of our residential children’s homes. You will work closely with the homes manager and staff team to embed our therapeutic model and support the team in therapeutic parenting. This will include delivering our therapeutic training, facilitating consultation meetings with the team and offering spaces for reflection.

You will provide psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to support young people at Meadows Care. You will hold a clinical caseload and liaise with care and education services to ensure a wrap-around service for the young person.

You will be joining a large multi-disciplinary team of therapists qualified in a variety of therapeutic modalities. We place significant emphasis on personal and professional development across our therapy services. We offer ongoing continuing professional development opportunities and opportunities for peer support.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To provide psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions to Children and Young People.
2. To work as lead therapist into one or more residential children’s homes if tasked, providing psychological support, reflective practice, training, formulation and guidance around the needs of all young people in the home
3. To attend such meetings/proceedings including statutory reviews, as is appropriate, to present assessments and provide a review of therapy to inform care.
4. To provide regular written reports regarding psychological assessments and interventions and general progress, for each young person worked with.
5. To complete all paperwork to ensure smooth running of the therapy service and in line with our recording policies
6. To regularly liaise with relevant professionals regarding therapeutic and systemic interventions, subject to professional boundaries of confidentiality
7. To provide input into routine assessment and care planning for young people.
8. To complete any relevant documentation and add to professional meetings as required e.g., Care Reviews, Professional Meetings, Disruption Meetings, Statement of Educational Reviews.
9. To work with the other members of the ‘Therapy Service’ to develop a service that will appropriately meet the therapeutic and psychological needs of all the Young People we support
10. To be involved in recruitment and induction of new staff, as appropriate.
11. To undertake any Continued Professional Development activities as are required to maintain and enhance clinical skills necessarily for the delivery of high-quality psychological care.
12. To attend and contribute to peer supervision within the Therapy Service.
13. To receive Clinical Supervision from an appropriate professional in accordance with regulatory body requirements.
14. To be knowledgeable of and to work within the parameters of our policies and procedures.
15. To gain an understanding of Ofsted requirements and Quality Standards for Children’s Homes.
16. To be aware of the nature of working within the independent sector, working for a non-statutory organisation and the different challenges and dilemma’s that this can entail.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential Criteria

1. Appropriate social work professional qualification (BSc, BA, MA, DipSW, CQSW, or equivalent)
2. Registered with Social Work England
3. Experience of working with young people with complex presentations (e.g. Children and Young People in Care, CAMHS, YOT, Forensic)
4. Further training in therapeutic models relevant for young people (ie. DDP, CFT, MBT, DBT, EMDR,CBT)
5. Experience of coordinating therapeutic care
6. Ability to apply knowledge of psychological theories to health and social care
7. Ability to disseminate assessment findings and formulation to a range of audiences
8. Able to demonstrate good organisational skills and work autonomously
9. To have a range of skills in assessment, formulation and intervention in addition to evaluating their own practice and measuring outcome.
10. To be able to contribute to Children Looked After Care Reviews and a range of other professional meetings e.g. Education, planning, strategy and Stability including at times providing evidence that may be used within family law proceedings.
11. To lead collaborative care planning, formal and informal training and providing reflective practice sessions.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties following appropriate discussion with the appropriate manager or Directors. This job description may be reviewed and revised in line with the needs and development of Meadows Care.

Apply:

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£35k-45k