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Job Details: Space 2 Thrive Domestic Abuse Therapeutic Service
Job Title: Counsellor/Therapist
Location: Coventry and Warwickshire
Salary: £26,000 £29,000 FTE (depending on relevant qualification and experience)
Hours: 22 hours worked over 3 days.
Job type: Permanent
Want to be part of a service that truly recognises and supports individuals who have experienced significant life changes, enabling them to recover and thrive in the community?
- Are you creative?
- Adaptable?
- Willing to break away from traditional ways of working and stretch your abilities?
If yes, the Space 2 Thrive service is the perfect place for you.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of an emerging, innovative trauma-informed service, offering a range of short-term 1:1 and group activities focused on mental health and well-being support.
- Work collaboratively within a supportive and flexible team environment comprised of a diverse range of experienced community mental health and support professionals, forming effective partnerships.
- Help shape a flexible, professionally rigorous, community-based, solution-focused service.
- Embrace creativity and utilise the strengths of, but move beyond, rigid traditional counselling models for transformative impact.
About the role:
Space 2 Thrive has recently received up to four-years of funding to build on its success and further shape its blended support provision, allowing us to expand our reach and impact in the community.
Our practitioners are committed to creating a trauma-informed environment for survivors of domestic abuse through:
- Creating a space where users can feel heard, understood, and empowered to manage and overcome their experiences to move forward with their goals and aspirations.
- Offering psychological wellbeing and navigation support, as well as evidence-based trauma therapy, to adults who have experienced domestic abuse trauma, be it a single incident or multiple occurrences.
- Addressing additional concerns like depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, social phobias, and more.
Key responsibilities:
- Undertake trauma focused and person-centred assessments to identify therapeutic and support needs and decide upon the appropriate and relevant therapeutic intervention for the adult.
- Ensure the survivors voice is central to the therapy agreement by collaborating to create personalised support plans and future goals.
- Deliver short-term, evidence-based therapy to adults with PTSD or trauma symptoms, incorporating Trauma-Focused CBT and other appropriate modalities and approaches.
- Manage a fixed 1:1 caseload with support from management and clinical supervision.
- Support the design and delivery of structured psychoeducational group work activities within various community settings.
- Keep and maintain records of therapy sessions, assessments, reviews, meetings, in accordance with Coventry and Warwickshire Minds confidentiality policy, and GDPR data protection policies and procedures.
- Adhere to the organisations policies and procedures, including but not limited to safeguarding adults and children and young people, confidentiality, and data protection policies.
Essential requirements:
- A recognised professional qualification at Level 4 in Counselling or Psychotherapy, plus at least one year of post-qualification experience.
- An ability to effectively engage with adults, and their families.
- A deep passion for supporting survivors of domestic abuse to empower themselves.
- Language specialisms are highly desired to reflect our diverse community.
- Excellent communication skills, verbal, non-verbal and written.
- Able to use a computer and/or other electronic devices.
- Up to date knowledge of trauma, and trauma informed therapeutic interventions.
- Accredited and qualified Counsellor/Psychotherapist, and up to date registration and membership (BACP, UKPT, BABCP) or working towards accreditation.
- Trained and qualified to deliver CBT or TF-CBT.
- Must have access to a vehicle as means of transport.
- An ability to travel to venues across Coventry and Warwickshire.
What We Can Offer You:
The following are just some of the benefits that Coventry and Warwickshire Mind offer its employees:
- Working Culture- based on core values of trust, honesty, inclusivity, enabling, effective and an unapologetic drive for excellence for children and young people.
- Annual Leave- 25 days plus bank holidays plus an extra day for every two completed holiday years.
- Wellbeing Day- 1 day, per holiday year, to be used to take care of your own mental health and wellbeing.
- Life Insurance Policy -Coventry and Warwickshire Mind are covered by a Life Insurance policy. The death in service payment is 2 x gross salary (tax free).
- Employee Development- Active encouragement not only to assist performance in the current role but also for the benefit of personal development via various means. Access to CW Mind CPD training and opportunities to access external CPD training.
- Flexible Working -A range of options available for all employees dependant on role and responsibilities.
- Pension- Minimum 5% employee contribution and 3% employer contribution, with an ethical investment policy option.
- Sick Pay -On completion of a 6-month probationary period, Coventry and Warwickshire Mind employees will be eligible to a period of paid sick leave.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Closing date: Monday 18th November
Interview Date: TBC
Please note: Only successful applicants will be notified.
We reserve the right to close the application window early and without notice should a suitable number of applications be received.
Coventry and Warwickshire Mind values diversity and difference. We welcome applicants from all sections of the community, particularly under-represented groups and people with lived experience of mental health issues.
Coventry and Warwickshire Mind is a leading mental health service provider and an equal opportunities employer.
