Play Therapist

Overview

Play Therapist
Service:
Family Action Domestic Abuse Healing and Empowerment Counselling Service North Somerset

Location:

Office Based – Weston-Super-Mare (tbc) with travel across North Somerset

Hours:

14.8 hours per week (part-time)
Salary: £28,884 - £31,698 FTE per annum (£11,553.60 - £12,679.20 per annum for part-time, 14.8 hours per week)
Contract type:
Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities. We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policy making, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

Family Action delivers a wide range of projects for victims/survivors of domestic abuse. This is an exciting opportunity to join the new Adult and Children counselling team specialising in counselling survivors of domestic abuse, with a trauma-informed approach. The contract is based in North Somerset working with all people within the community.

The Play Therapist will deliver trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate play and creative therapy to children from birth, children and young people, and young adults up to 25 with additional needs, referred by partner agencies for those impacted by domestic abuse. The role focuses on early intervention, attachment, emotional wellbeing, recovery and resilience, working closely with parents/carers and multi-agency professionals.

We are seeking candidates who are passionate about addressing violence against girls and women and are committed to intersectional work. Our play therapists should excel in managing clinical risks, conducting assessments, and handling confidential information with sensitivity. There will be 3 hours per month of paid clinical supervision plus line management supervision with the Clinical Service Manager.

• You will be a qualified and registered Play Therapist with experience of working with infants, children and young people, including those with additional or complex needs.
• You will be confident working with families affected by domestic abuse, able to build safe therapeutic relationships, manage clinical risk and contribute positively to a trauma-informed service.
• You will be client-centred, reflective in practice and committed to equality of access, dignity and inclusion for all service users.
• You will be accredited by BAPT or PTUK.
• You will bring experience of managing complex interventions and service models focused on trauma and promoting resilience.
• The post holder should be committed to continued professional development and have an exceptional knowledge of underpinning theories of practice models and interventions and their application.
• You will have a strong track record in quality, performance, and safeguarding. With a client-facing approach, you will be passionate about engaging our service users in all aspects of our work including co-production.
• This role will be office-based in North Somerset with travel across the area and potentially include one evening and weekend shift per week.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced with Children’s Barred List DBS Check

We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. All roles in Family Action are open to a discussion about possible flexible working options, subject to business needs, and all new starters will have the right to make a flexible working request from day one of employment. We have an excellent wellbeing offer and we will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities.

You will join teams of established, supportive and high-performing services and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative…