Psychotherapist for People on Probation
Belong provides hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime, through mentoring, restorative justice and psychotherapy interventions, in prisons and communities.
Me Time is a programme for people with criminal convictions from Global Majority Ethnic backgrounds, which aims to improve wellbeing and reduce re-offending amongst participants. Me Time offers short-term emotional well-being support and medium-term community and through the gate creative psychotherapy primarily to people who are under probation supervision in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, with some scope to work remotely with those under supervision in the wider East England probation region. The programme is open to people of all genders aged over 18 years. Priority is given to people facing multiple and complex disadvantages.
This position provides an exciting opportunity for a reliable, organised, energetic, resilient psychotherapist to join Belong's committed, specialist team. The successful applicant will have at least two years’ post qualifying experience of facilitating psychotherapy within the criminal justice sector, the prison service or a related sector. They will deliver one-to-one psychotherapy interventions at HMP The Mount, Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire Probation Units, or remotely.
The successful applicant will engage people in psychotherapy using verbal ...