School Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

What you will be doing as a School Therapist:

As a School Therapist in TNCP, your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering one-to-one short-term therapeutic interventions to primary and secondary school-aged children and young people referred into the cluster.
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with school staff and management teams.
• Assessing and determining the need for intervention with children and families referred.
• Holding a caseload of children and young people, conducting assessments, and formulating emotional and mental health needs.
• Providing evidence-based individual interventions in various school settings.
• Collaborating with the School team to identify appropriate practitioners or CAMHS pathways for onward referrals.
• Offering consultation and advice to school staff and professionals as needed.
• Working across the schools in the cluster to provide support where required.
• Ensuring safeguarding concerns are addressed appropriately and contributing to safeguarding processes.
• Maintaining confidential records in line with Northpoint's procedures.
• Collaborating with other professionals to ensure therapeutic services are evidence-based and tailored to the client group.
• Communicating with parents and families according to Northpoint's guidelines.

Person Specification

Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• A relevant therapeutic qualification *A relevant therapeutic qualification would include a diploma from a BACP-accredited training (or equivalent**) OR a relevant HCPC-registered title (i.e. art therapist, arts psychotherapist, drama therapist, counselling psychologist, clinical psychologist).
• **NB Equivalent therapy qualifications from non-accredited courses should be of a level that would be recognised for professional accreditation purposes and sufficient to practise as a counsellor/therapist (i.e. minimum of 450 taught hours over at least 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time, supervised practice within a therapeutic organisation, with teaching which covered elements of theory, skills practice, professional issues and personal development).

Desirable

• Further training in working therapeutically with children and young people

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Northpoint Wellbeing Ltd

Address

Temple Newsam Cluster

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS9 0JY

Employer's website

https://northpoint.org.uk (Opens in a new tab)