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We are seeking a highly motivated and dynamic therapeutic counsellor who has experience, skills and training in working in the community with vulnerable CYP with a range of complex mental health, neurodevelopmental, developmental trauma and attachment needs and their families (parents/carers) working as part of the families together multi-disciplinary team.
The role will be line managed within the systemic wellbeing team and supervised by the senior consultant psychotherapist with regular reporting to the Head of the families together service.
This is a full time, twelve months fixed term contract position.
This is a hybrid position within the systemic wellbeing service in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, working directly with the "families together" social care team.
The role focuses on maintaining placement stability for children and young people (CYP) by supporting families at the edge of care, managing reunification, and assisting with step-downs from residential care.
Key responsibilities include:
* Conducting systemic therapeutic assessments of CYP and families.
* Providing direct therapeutic interventions.
* Consulting with practitioners on care plans.
* Facilitating reflective practice groups.
* Delivering training to staff on attachment, developmental trauma, and neurodiversity.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Rebecca Askew at rebecca.askew@achievingforchildren.org.uk
The successful candidate will possess the following:
* Ability (developed through clinical placements) to undertake clinical family assessments and family work to inform the case/care plan to support placement stability and build trusting and effective therapeutic relationships with CYP, and their parents/carers.
* Experience in delivering one-to-one therapeutic interventions for CYP (5-25 years), using trauma informed, humanistic, systemic and psychodynamic interventions to help them express themselves, make sense of and process their experiences within their family, school and community contexts.
* Ability to think holistically about a CYP’s needs and differences, understanding them within the context of their culture, family, school, and community systems.
* A solid understanding of safeguarding principles and experience in identifying, assessing, and responding to risks to children's welfare and mental health in a social care and health context.
* Experience working alongside (co-production) and building strong relationships with clear communication of one’s role with other professionals, such as social workers, school and educational staff, and health practitioners, to ensure a coordinated support plan for the family.
* Systemic consultation skills that provides advice, guidance, holistic and a psychological formulation to other professionals at all levels working with the families and CYP to understand the interacting factors of context, culture, social graces, values, beliefs and relationships impacting on the family systems.
* Contribute to the evaluation and monitoring of the impact of the therapeutic and consultation interventions and work.
* Ability to effectively use data, intelligence and evidence to create meaningful insight and to inform own decision making.
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