JOB DESCRIPTION: PLAY THERAPIST
HOURS: 3 days per week
SALARY: Dependant on experience
LOCATION: The Bessborough Centre (will include travel within Co. Cork)
RESPONSIBLE TO: ChiPPs Clinical Lead (Senior Clinical Psychologist)
The Bessborough Centre, in collaboration with Springboard Project
Cork, are seeking to recruit a play therapist for a new mental health,
and early intervention, service, specifically for children in foster
or residential care between the ages of 5 and **Apply on the
website**.
The service, called ChiPPS (Children?s Intervention and Prevention
Pathways), aims to provide a range of treatment and assessment
approaches tailored to children who have experienced developmental and
attachment trauma through a stepped-care prevention and intervention
model. The service will have multidisciplinary focus and draw on a
wide range of allied health disciplines, including Occupational
Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Psychotherapy.
The successful candidate will maintain a caseload and work using a
trauma-informed lens to achieve positive mental health outcomes for
children and their families, build or restore placement stability or
develop key relationships in the child?s family/support network.
The role will include offering specialist training and consultation to
colleagues and the wider team/system around the child, such social
workers, foster carers, and residential and support workers supporting
children in care. We are committed to embedding an evidence-based
culture of trauma-informed care and therapeutic practice and therefore
keen to assess the effectiveness of our service. As such, service
evaluation will be an integral part of the role.
The Bessborough Centre is trauma-informed and equal opportunity
employer. We offer competitive salary package as well as benefits to
include, enhanced maternity leave, pension contribution scheme,
flexible working hours, internal and externally provided training
opportunities and competitive annual leave entitlement.
The successful candidate will be expected to:
* To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary therapy team,
providing a high-quality play therapy services to children and
significant adults
* To create awareness of the benefit and potential for play therapy
within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and
training /education.
* To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and
to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning
and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and
discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service?s operational
policies
* To compile comprehensive assessment and treatment reports and any
other reports as required in connection to the children and their
parents with whom they have been working.
* To monitor assessment and treatment reports for quality assurance
purposes and ensure they are disseminated on time.
* Promote an effective team ethos.
* Promote equality, diversity and rights, and treat others with
dignity and respect ensuring services are developed, managed and
delivered to meet specific needs linked to protected characteristics.
* Promote equality, diversity and Human Rights in working practices
by developing and maintaining positive working relationships, ensuring
that colleagues are treated fairly and contributing to developing
equality of opportunity and outcomes in working practices
* Contribute to developing and maintaining equality of opportunity
in working practices by complying with legislation and organisational
policies. Advise colleagues about equality, diversity and human rights
policies and procedures and ensure they are followed
* To attend court, if required, as an expert witness.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
QUALIFICATIONS:
* Accredited qualification in play therapy
EXPERIENCE:
* Experience of providing tailored therapeutic support to children
who have experienced developmental trauma and their carers
* Training in level 1 & 2 Theraplay is also essential
ESSENTIAL SKILLS:
* Excellent skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally
and in writing clinically sensitive information to clients, their
families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and
outside the service.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and
non-professional group
* Excellent time management skills and an ability to meet deadlines
and prioritise workload.
* Exceptional organisational skills, particularly in administration.
KNOWLEDGE:
* An understanding of developmental trauma, attachment, infant mental
health, child development and neurodiversity, child and adolescent
mental health issues
* An understanding of working therapeutically with children who have
experienced developmental trauma and their carers/adoptive parents.
* An understanding of theory and research in the field of
developmental trauma, attachment and therapeutic interventions with
this population
* An understanding of the use of the creative arts in a therapeutic
setting.
* An excellent understanding of safeguarding children issues as well
as an understanding of care and control, notification procedures and
equal opportunities, data protection and general good practice.
TO APPLY
To apply submit your CV and covering letter to Human Resources
Department, Bessborough Centre, Blackrock, Cork or by email with the
position you are applying for in the subject title to **Apply on the
website** by 5pm on Wednesday 8th December **Apply on the website**.
Interviews will be held week beginning **Apply on the website**th
December and can be accommodated virtually if necessary.
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Health
