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Goodwin Development Trust

Goodwin Development Trust is a successful community business that seeks to improve people’s quality of life through developing and delivering gap services from a number of sites across the City of Hull. We are now seeking to recruit an experienced practitioner into the following role:

Therapist

Goodwin Development Trust is looking to recruit a professional and confident individual into Haven. Haven has been working with refugee/asylum seeker communities in Hull for twelve years and has a wealth of experience in providing an emotional support and therapeutic service.

The aim of the service is to reduce isolation and to promote resilience and restore self-respect and promote and support integration particularly especially to refugees and asylum seeker. The project works to address the needs of both individuals and families.

Haven is an organisational member of BACP

Therapist (JOB REF: T01)

Hours: 21 hours per week

Actual annual salary for hours 21 per week – £16,587 (FTE £29,225)

Fixed term until 30th April 2019 (pending further funding)

Haven provides a ‘holistic’ therapeutic service to refugees and asylum seeker individuals and families.

The successful candidate will provide psychotherapy services for refugees and asylum seekers who have survived exile and persecution and who are experiencing mental distress.

The responsibilities of this post include receiving referrals and arranging assessments with clients who meet the service criteria, carrying a caseload of short and long term clients, whilst ensuring that clinical standards meet the ethical standards of BACP, UKCP or BPS.

The ideal candidate must have a formal accredited training in Psychotherapy or Counselling. (UKCP, BCP, BACP, BPS registered) Diploma level or equivalent. The candidate must have experience of providing a service to appropriate clinical standards in an alternative setting, such as the client’s home, a school, or other agency. Experience of working with interpreters in a counselling setting would be an advantage but is not essential.

For an Application Pack please visit our website: www.goodwintrust.org/jobs or email recruitment@goodwintrust.org or contact the HR Department on (01482) 594319 (leave message on voicemail

Application forms should be returned stating Job Reference T01 to: HR Department, The Octagon, Pod 5, Walker Street, Trup, HU3 2RA by 12pm on 19.11.2018. Interviews will take place 22.11.18. If you have not heard anything this by date, please accept that you have not been successful. (CV’s not accepted)

This Post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Services and Satisfactory References.

“Goodwin Development Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safer recruiting procedures through references and DBS checks.”

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