Team Therapist - Brent, United Kingdom - Look Ahead Housing and Care

Look Ahead Housing and Care

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Brent, United Kingdom

2 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job profile:

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

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Job details:
Job details:

Job reference

REQ00443
Date posted
11/01/202 Application closing date
12/02/202 Location
Brent
Salary

- £32,000.00 per annum, pro rota

Package

- plus Annual Leave pro rata, Pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare, and career progression.

Contractual hours
40
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Full Time, Permanent

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Team Therapist:

Job description
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Recruiting Team Therapist to join our Homelessness service in Brent.

Looking for a new role where you can make a difference every day? We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Team Therapist to join our Homelessness service in Brent.

£32,000.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week, plus Annual Leave pro rata, Pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare, and career progression.

Look Ahead is a dynamic, leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. As an organisation we deliver over 110 services, providing support to around 7000 customers each year.

We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.

We're looking for a Team Therapist to join our Homelessness service.

This innovative role has been created to respond to recent demands for an integrative approach into support delivery of vulnerable adults presenting a severe and enduring mental illness and/or a forensic background, at times in combination with substance misuse.

The post holder will lead on creating a therapeutically informed programme in order to develop a Psychological Informed Environment in the service.

Adopt and implement a Psychological informed Environment in the service.
To support the team in carrying out holistic assessments on appropriate support plans, and comprehensive risk assessments in full consultation with serviceusers, their families/carers and other agencies.
To liaise with the multidisciplinary team working collaboratively to ensure that full information is given (in case of risk) to enable a robust assessment of serviceusers.
Lead on staff team debriefs following any serious incidents, develop workshops to assist staff in managing stress and wellbeing in the workplace and advise the manager on supportive interventions for the team as a whole.
Lead on team reflective practise sessions as well as other creative activities for the team to aid reflection, insight and best practise.
To ensure recovery focused support plans are reviewed, evaluated and amended in accordance with changing needs, presenting risks and individual preferences in order to promote recovery with an attitude of 'positive risk taking'.
To provide recovery focused support to achieve personal goals/aspirations in partnership with serviceusers, family members and statutory agencies. To work with serviceusers on a one to one basis to achieve positive outcomes within a given service timeframe.

Essential:

Degree level qualification in counselling or psychotherapy.
Minimum of 2 years experience in working in a mental health setting or other specialist social care services.
Demonstrable experience of support work with people with support needs.
Experience of providing individual therapy and an understanding of risk management.
Demonstrable experience of engaging vulnerable adults with mental health needs/challenging behavior/substance misuse.
Leadership skills in supporting team development.

Desirable:

Knowledge of group therapy.
Experience of working with vulnerable adults who are undergoing a period of crisis.
Bring expertise in specialist areas such as dual diagnosis, substance misuse, hoarding or therapeutic interventions.

Job Overview:

The role would suit an experienced counsellor/psychotherapist who will lead in facilitating therapeutic groups and individual counselling /therapy for service users.

On the other side provide support to the staff team in developing their psychological understanding and raising awareness in the emotional impact of working with this client group.

The Therapist will work with the service users in order to improve engagement with support services as well as providing in depth sessions with them with the desired outcome of supporting them to better manage the psychological distress and to have a clearer insight into their own emotional wellbeing.

The post holder will have a creative approach to engaging with the service users including group and individual therapy/counselling and will tailor their interactions to each of them (this could involve using any approach which might be easier for the individual to engage with:
self expression, art, creative writing etc.).

Key information and documentation will be kept up to t