About the role

ID: 1499 Child and Family Trauma Therapist

Service: Childrens Trauma Therapy Service

Salary: £32,311 - £35,800 FTE per annum, plus £2,200 market allowance FTE per annum subject to review at the end of the financial year March 2025
(£19,386.60 - £21,480.00 pro rata, plus £1,320 market allowance pro rata per annum)

Location: Central Bradford
We typically work 5 days a week in the office but offer the flexibility to work from home on occasions. Our office space is wheelchair accessible.

Hours: 22.2 hours per week (part-time)

Contract: Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
Are you a qualified psychotherapist, creative arts therapist, family therapist, or clinical/counselling psychologist with experience of working with children? Do you want to be part of an award-winning organization that makes a difference?
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 policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

We are looking for an experienced therapist to help children and their families recover from trauma through abuse (emotional, physical, sexual, domestic and neglect) and traumatic bereavement. We specialise in working with developmental and complex trauma.
We deliver specialist trauma and attachment therapy. We are looking for therapists who are trained in a range of therapeutic modalities including, Dramatherapy, Art Therapy, Psychotherapy with training in somatic practices , Integrative Counselling, Family Therapy and other forms of Child Psychotherapy

Main Requirements:
You will be a qualified, registered therapist with additional training/experience in working with children. You will be skilled in working with complex trauma or keen to develop your therapeutic skills in this area. You will be trauma-focused in your approach and have experience of working with children, young people and their parents/carers. You may have additional clinical training in a specific trauma and/or attachment focused therapy (e.g. EMDR, TF-CBT, TF-Play Therapy, DDP, Theraplay). You will be able to think systemically about inter-generational trauma with an understanding of the different presentation and therapeutic recovery needs of children at different ages and stages. You will be committed to high quality therapy standards with a passion for using your therapy skills to facilitate good outcomes. As a team player you will be keen to share your skills and specialisms and also learn from others.
Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Child Barred List

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days pro rata, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days, plus bank holidays.
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities including the opportunity to train in EMDR or DDP
- the opportunity to join group supervision delivered by external EMDR/DDP supervisors.

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Sunday 6th July at 23:59

Interviews are scheduled to take place on the 16th July in person with slots throughout the working day.
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: Sarah.Maruyama@family-action.org.uk

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.