School Psychotherapist

We are looking for a compassionate, resilient, and motivated Psychotherapist to join our supportive team at Prosperity Children’s Services
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You will work within our therapeutic education provisions, delivering flexible, one-to-one therapy and supporting staff to provide trauma-informed, person-centred environment.

As a school therapist, you will play a key part in developing and implementing high‑quality therapeutic provisions across our schools. You will be required to manage a case load of children offering 1:1 sessions, liaise with and offer therapeutic support to teaching staff working with children on your case load, and delivering workshops when required to guide and expand on our therapeutic environment and practice.

• Offering 1:1 therapy sessions for pupils with a wide range of emotional, behavioural, and social needs, within Ofsted registered educational services for children.
• Use a range of therapeutic techniques to support emotional regulation, self-esteem, resilience, and social development.
• Complete assessments and develop individualised therapy plans tailored to each pupil on your case load, with therapeutic resources and materials designed to meet each child’s needs.
• Liaise with families, social workers, commissioning authorities and inter‑agency teams, OFSTED, including CAMHS, when appropriate.
• Work closely with teaching and support staff to help embed therapeutic principles, such as principles of P.A.C.E and Trauma‑Informed Care, into daily classroom practice.
• Provide reflective practice sessions for our staff teams working with and educating traumatised children and young people.
• Offer staff training, workshops, and ongoing CPD focused on emotional wellbeing and trauma‑informed approaches.
• To adhere to your professional body’s code of ethics (BACP, UKCP, HCPC) including maintaining accreditation or registration. This includes the BACP’s Competences framework for working with young people.
• Ensure high standards of practice, safeguarding, and documentation are maintained.

• Level 6 qualification (or above) in a relevant subject counselling, psychotherapy, drama/art therapist. Significant recent experience of working with children and young people within a psychotherapeutic or counselling role.
• Professional qualifications – Level 6 minimum
• Member of BACP/UKCP/HCPC or other relevant professional body.
• Ability to relate to and build rapport with young people who have a range of social, emotional and cognitive abilities, as well as with their families and other professionals.
• The ability to identify where thresholds are met for more specialist intervention such as psychological assessment, assess and communicate risk and safeguarding concerns to ensure the safeguarding of our young people and practitioners, and be part of an assessment process to support the young person’s individual needs.
• Excellent literacy, numeracy, written and oral communication skills, including writing comprehensive, detailed reports.
• Good information technology literacy skills, with a knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and experience of learning database systems for recording and storing information.
• The ability to maintain confidentiality and sensitivity of young people’s information, along with the ability to correctly breech confidentiality where legally and ethically required.

• Full UK Driving Licence required – Ability to travel between sites (Blackburn, Burnley, Bury, Leeds)

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