An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Northwest region of England which means that Barnardo's are recruiting to the Emotional Health and Wellbeing Specialist Fostering Service (EHWBSFS). Are you motivated by new challenges and inspired by the growth of new services supporting children, young people and families to achieve their potential? If so, you could be interested in this post.
The Service:
The service supports children, young people and their foster families by providing therapeutic support within a specialist fostering placement within Lancashire and Cumbria and occasionally in neighbouring localities.
The Service provides outreach support and while clerical duties can be carried out when home-based there is an expectation to attend the Barnardo's locality hubs when required.
This is a fulltime role working 37 hours per week, however part time could be considered.
We are looking for people who are passionate about:
1. Children's and Young People's emotional health and wellbeing
2. Improving outcomes for children and young people and their foster families.
The Role: Therapist
We are looking to recruit a full time Therapist (37 hours per week) with the following qualifications / experience.
We are looking for skills in one or more of the therapy modalities below:
3. Person Centred Therapy
4. Play Therapy / Creative expressive arts therapy
5. Theraplay / Filial Therapy
6. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
7. Integrative Therapy
8. Behavioural Therapy (DBT, DDT, Filial)
9. EMDR
Your professional qualification will be at a minimum diploma level, with evidence of continuing professional development in a field relevant to child and young people mental health. You must be registered with a Professional Body such as BACP, BABCP, BAAT, HCPC, UKCP, or equivalent, and committed to maintaining this registration.
You will have at least two years post-qualification experience of delivering counselling to children and young people and have an awareness of emotional challenges and how these impact the lives of children and young people.
It is desirable that you have completed the AIM3 assessment training and have experience of and a willingness to work therapeutically with young people displaying harmful sexual behaviours.
You will have a knowledge of child development and the role of the family in supporting children and young people's emotional well-being.
You will have comprehensive understanding of children's safeguarding.
You will be willing to be adaptable and deliver support via multiple methods, e.g., face to face, telephone or video call.
It is essential that you have case management experience and a clear understanding of the requirement for professional and accurate case notes.
Are you able to demonstrate in your application that you currently use the skills outlined above, and in the Job Description/Person Specifications, or have used them previously in employment, education, training, volunteering etc?
Need more information?
If you require any further information about this opportunity, please contact Annette MacKinley on
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
10. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
11. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
12. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
13. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
14. Service related sick pay from day 1
15. Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
16. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
17. Cycle2work scheme
18. Interest free season ticket loans
19. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
20. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
21. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
22. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
23. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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