Suicide Prevention Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Suicide Prevention Therapist

Hours: 0.6 FTE (22.5hrs per week across 3 days) working days to be confirmed at interview stage.

Location: Newcastle

Reports to: Head of Centre

The opportunity

We are seeking to recruit a Suicide Prevention Therapist to support men in suicidal crisis at our centre in Newcastle.

We are looking for an experienced mental health professional or therapist with demonstrable interest in suicide prevention. We will work with you and train you to develop your therapeutic skills to offer our collaborative semi-structured psychologically informed intervention.

You will support the centre user and their supporter(s) to recover from the suicidal crisis and maintain their safety. You will report to the Head of Centre. This appointment is part of our growth as a charity. The successful candidate will join an experienced supportive team and will gradually build a caseload supporting men in suicidal crisis to meet the growth of referral partnerships and increased awareness raising in Newcastle. The Charity James Place exists to stop men dying by suicide. We offer free, life-saving therapy from trained, professional therapists to men in suicidal crisis. We opened our first centre in 2018 in Liverpool, the first of its kind in the UK, in 2022 we launched our second centre in London, and this year we opened our third centre in Newcastle.

To date, we have supported over 2,300 men through our life-saving intervention. James Place aims to make the experience of finding help as easy as possible. It offers men a brief, intensive, therapeutic intervention in a safe, welcoming, environment. Men who walk through the door at James Place will be in a space where they feel valued and respected.

Building on the success of our centres in Liverpool, London, and Newcastle, we are now expanding our model to reach more men in suicidal crisis. Our aim is to have five centres open by 2026.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience Before starting your application, please read the below in full to understand the requirements of this role. The key criteria which will help us to assess candidates are listed below. There is guidance to highlight at which stage the criteria will be assessed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A Core Profession such as Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker registered with NMC, HPC, BASW or
• Therapists registered with IAPT, BACP, UKCP, BABCP or Psychology Graduate with experience of working as a Psychology Assistant or
• extensive experience of working within secondary mental health services

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of being able to deliver a therapeutic session
• Effective communication skills (written & verbal)
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult situations
• Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate therapeutic interventions
• Able to work as an effective team member
• Able to prioritise own workload
• Self-motivated, uses own initiative and will make decisions
• Good time management
• Promotes peoples equality, diversity, and rights
• Knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding Procedures
• Knowledge of Service Governance and Evaluation
• Commitment to clinical supervision
• Commitment to working with men who are experiencing a suicidal crisis and their
• supporters.
• An ability to work in a therapeutic environment.
• An ability to manage therapeutic sessions.
• An ability to maintain boundaries within a time-limited intervention. A
• An ability to maintain up-to-date service user records in line with James Place standards.
• Able to conduct effective risk assessments and collaborative safety plans with men who are presenting with a high risk of suicide or be willing and able to learn how to do so.
• An ability to maintain own personal safety and the safety of others within the centre.
• An ability to manage an allocated caseload.
• An ability to identify if the service offered is not adequate to maintain the persons safety and facilitate a rapid transfer to the most appropriate service.
• An ability to collaborate with centre users in the development of a person-centred, individual intervention plan.
• An ability to engage the service user in the intervention plan, overcoming barriers to communication.
• You must hold the relevant qualification to be considered

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

James' Place Charity

Address

Big Lamp Studio

1 Summerhill Street

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE4 6EJ

Employer's website

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