Therapist

Barnardo's is currently recruiting staff. If you are seeking a new opportunity and possess a strong commitment to working with children and young people to support their emotional wellbeing, we encourage you to consider this position.

The Service:

The MyTime to Thrive service supports children and young people across Lancashire and South Cumbria aged 5-18 years to develop healthy minds, confidence and resilience, enabling them to fulfil their potential. As part of the THRIVE 'Getting Help' model, Barnardo's provides therapeutic one-to-one sessions, group work and counselling support within the community.

We are seeking candidates who demonstrate a strong commitment to:

• Children's and young people's emotional health and wellbeing

• Improving outcomes for children and young people

The Role:

• Working days: Monday to Friday (to be agreed)

• Working hours: 30 hours per week

• Office base: Blackpool

• Working across various school and community venues

• The ability to travel across the Blackpool Fylde Wyre locality is essential

• You will deliver brief interventions via one-to-one wellbeing sessions and therapeutic group work, focusing on emotional literacy and emotional regulation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing a blended approach of digital and face-to-face sessions

• Maintaining active engagement on all safeguarding matters

• Ensuring accurate record-keeping for reporting purposes

Essential requirements for successful candidates:

• Hold a diploma-level qualification in counselling, child and adolescent psychotherapy, art, play, drama or music therapy, which includes a practicum of at least 100 hours of supervised practice.

• Possess substantial experience of delivering counselling to children and young people

• Demonstrate an awareness of emotional challenges and their impact on the lives of children and young people.

• Possess knowledge of child and adolescent development and the role of the family in supporting children and young people's emotional wellbeing.

• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of children's safeguarding.

• Exhibit adaptability and the capability to deliver support via multiple methods, including face-to-face, telephone and video call.

• Possess case management experience and demonstrate a clear understanding of the requirement for professional and accurate case documentation.

• Access to a vehicle would be advantageous due to the regular travel required for this role.

Need more information?

If you require any further information about these opportunities, please contact Nikki Swan, Children's Service Manager, South Cumbria, North Lancs & Blackpool MyTime to Thrive

Although this contract is fixed-term until the end of March 2027, there may be potential for extension subject to funding.

Additional Information:

You must demonstrate in your application that you currently utilise the skills outlined above and in the Job Description/Person Specification, or have applied them previously in employment, education, training, volunteering or similar contexts. This should be presented with a clear understanding of the service context described.

Certain roles require evidence of qualifications and professional membership. Should your role fall under this category, a start date cannot be confirmed without provision of this information.

Please note that due to the high volume of applications for certain positions, this advert may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend submitting your application at the earliest opportunity.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band - this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values